By Darren Allan
AMD has officially unveiled its first Ryzen mobile processors (or APUs as the company calls these CPU plus GPU chips), complete with some impressive benchmarks showing them outpacing Intel’s latest 8th-gen offerings for laptops.
The wraps were taken off the Ryzen 7 2700U and Ryzen 5 2500U, both of which are quad-core processors with eight-threads and integrated Radeon Vega Graphics.
The 2700U has a base clock speed of 2.2GHz with boost to 3.8GHz, and 10 CUs (compute units). The 2500U drops things back a bit to a base clock of 2GHz with boost to 3.6GHz, along with 8 CUs.
Naturally, the focus is on powerful performance, but also on power-efficiency, which is always a major concern when it comes to notebooks and battery life.
On the speed front, AMD provided a range of benchmarks to demonstrate the power of the new Ryzen chips.
In Cinebench R15 nT (CPU performance), the Ryzen 7 2700U hits a score of 719 compared to Intel’s Core i7-8550U (latest-gen) mobile processor (in an Acer Spin 5 notebook) which scores 498.
The AMD chip also wins with the PCMark 10 Extended benchmark hitting 163% over and above the performance of the AMD FX-9800P (which is picked as a baseline …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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