Looking Ahead To AMD Ryzen Mobile On Linux

[torsionbar28]

Michael, note that many OEMs have been notoriously bad in gimping AMD processors, such as every single excavator based system only had a single-channel of ram wired at all.

Something tells me intel had a hand in this. Like Microsoft, they're known for shady backroom deals with OEM's to cripple the competition.

[schmidtbag]

Razer is one of those companies that people like to talk trash about due to the glitz and price tags that they use, but I have yet to know an actual Razer user who was unhappy with their purchase (except sometimes mice). That being said, I don't care about the glitz and I don't like the price tag, so I'll never buy one, but I don't see anything inherently wrong with their products. Companies like Asus and MSI make very similar products and you don't hear anyone trash talking them.

Meanwhile, Lenovo was a great company but they've been really slipping in quality lately. I have an i3 based laptop and if I weren't a Linux user it would've been the worst experience I ever had with a laptop. I had one of those EEE PCs with a 900MHz single-core Celeron and even that had a better user experience.


Anyway, I'm interested in Ryzen mobile but I'm a little wary about power consumption. AMD was never really known for having the most efficient designs, and although Ryzen CPUs seem to have better performance-per-watt than Intel, I don't care about having a more powerful CPU or GPU if it means my battery life gets shortened.

[Zajec]

https://twitter.com/AMD/status/923536556727472132

At the end of video you can see they were using dual channel memory in demo configurations!

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/SghpK

[lvlark]

https://www.techprincess.it/amd-pres...ryzen-5-2500u/ has some interesting slides. Unfortunately I can't really read Italian.
It seems as though HP and Lenovo will both use single channel RAM @2133 in their initial offering, while Acer will use dual channel @2133.
Lenovo's is 13" while the other two are 15".

Fingers crossed for ASUS putting together a dual channel 13" with 512GB storage . While maintaining affordability..

[oooverclocker]

Beautiful! That would mean up to 1.66 TFLOPS FP32 and 3.32 TFLOPS FP16. Which means the Vega IGP should have about the same performance like an RX 460 or slightly below in some scenarios.
Paired with a quadcore CPU this APU will definitely land in my new HTPC next year.

[Veerappan]

Please see if you can get a dual-channel setup for testing :-)

This. The Lenovo Ideapad 720S looked perfect for my needs, until I saw that it was single-channel only.

[oleyska]

Razer is one of those companies that people like to talk trash about due to the glitz and price tags that they use, but I have yet to know an actual Razer user who was unhappy with their purchase (except sometimes mice). That being said, I don't care about the glitz and I don't like the price tag, so I'll never buy one, but I don't see anything inherently wrong with their products. Companies like Asus and MSI make very similar products and you don't hear anyone trash talking them.

Meanwhile, Lenovo was a great company but they've been really slipping in quality lately. I have an i3 based laptop and if I weren't a Linux user it would've been the worst experience I ever had with a laptop. I had one of those EEE PCs with a 900MHz single-core Celeron and even that had a better user experience.


Anyway, I'm interested in Ryzen mobile but I'm a little wary about power consumption. AMD was never really known for having the most efficient designs, and although Ryzen CPUs seem to have better performance-per-watt than Intel, I don't care about having a more powerful CPU or GPU if it means my battery life gets shortened.

I'm here unhappy about mice, keyboard ,headset.
There you go
I cannot say anything about laptops other than skeptical

[schmidtbag]

I'm here unhappy about mice, keyboard ,headset.
There you go

So... why exactly did you get more than one of their products? Unless you bought them all at the same time, I don't know why you'd twice be a repeat customer if your prior experiences didn't live up to your standards.
Also out of curiosity, what was wrong with them?

[Filiprino]

ROFL to the single-channel on the Lenovo.

[nomadewolf]

I don't have much confidence in Razer at all, never had a great product from them but Lenovo and Dell must be my favorite laptop manufactures.



Sure do!
It's what we were hoping the first apu's to be, so I think this will be a success!

Lenovo used to be a good brand, IMO.
Nowadays i only buy Dell, HP and Asus for my company.