AMD Tech Day at CES: 2018 Roadmap Revealed, with Ryzen APUs, Zen+ on 12nm, Vega on 7nm
by Ian Cutress on February 1, 2018 8:45 AM ESTZen and Vega: Ryzen PRO Mobile
In the second half of last year, AMD’s Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom division (now the Enterprise and Embedded division) launched its Ryzen PRO family of desktop processors, for business customers that needed additional management capabilities. AMD has been making ‘Pro’ versions of its consumer processors for several generations now, usually mimicking the specifications of the consumer products aside from the management support.
These products, by and large, go up against Intel’s equivalent vPro processors, and AMD’s value add revolves around support for DASH, an open-source management protocol, TSME (transparent secure memory encryption), and its commitment to customer requests such as operating system image stability (18-months), guaranteed processor availability (24-months), manufacturing specifications designed for long-term reliability, and a commercial limited warranty (36-months). AMD also likes to tout that it offers a Pro product at the lower end of the market, where Intel does not have a vPro-enabled Core i3.
As part of the AMD Tech Day, it was announced that the Ryzen PRO Mobile family will be launched in Spring 2018. These components are, by and large, the Ryzen Mobile family of processors with Vega graphics but with the added Pro features listed above. For performance and power, AMD states similar sorts of numbers as it did with the launch of Ryzen Mobile: up to 270% better performance per watt, targeting 13 hours of useful battery life, 9 hours of HD video playback, and targeting a generation of sleek and powerful laptops, in this case focused for the Enterprise market.
So much like the Ryzen 7 2700U, the Ryzen 5 2500U, and the Ryzen 3 2300U, AMD will launch the Ryzen PRO Mobile equivalents:
We are likely to see OEMs that currently provide AMD A-Series PRO notebooks to offer updated versions with these new processors, as well as a series of new designs coming into the business and enterprise market.
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sharath.naik - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link
why no ryzen 7 8 core for mobile?msroadkill612 - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link
At last, desk top apuS. Its very exciting.It bears noting, that liquid cooling is getting to be mainstream, and apuS DO allow both cpu & gpu to use a single cost effective cooler - ~$100usd.
Desirable as gpu LC may be, it tends to be impossible/difficult on discrete gpuS physically. LC cooling the APU's gpu is very simple.
The usual chip TDP constraints can be greatly loosened if LC is assumed (as in the ~300w LC vega).
"The Ryzen 5 2400G will run at up to 3.9GHz with 4-cores/8-threads and 11 CUs, a 65W TDP, and a price of $169."
Rumors of apuS w/ 28CUs dont seem fanciful, they seem conservative.
My guess? is most moboS would handle a 180W module in their socket?
An 8GB vega 56 is 210W TDP.
FYI:
"www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-ama,5018.html
Apr 14, 2017 - 1. TDP is not electrical watts (power draw), it's thermal watts. 2. Published processor TDPs are often rounded up to fit a desired specification. For example, AM4 motherboards are specd to run processors with 65W and 95W TDPs. It gives motherboard manufacturers and system builders a thermal framework"
dsplover - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link
You will be feeling like crap a long time. Take it easy, you’ll only get worse. Thanks for the info on new desktop w/ GFX.Any info on that is appreciated.
I just got over the flu, caught in Vegas. Lasted 5 weeks and I took the advice and got a flu shot in November. Big help....NOT
pfdman - Friday, January 12, 2018 - link
"To accompany the HP Envy x360, the Lenovo Ideapad 720S, and the Acer Swift 3, Q1 will see the launch of a new HP (under embargo until later this week),"Now that the week is almost up, has anyone seen news as to what that new HP device is?
JoeDuarte - Saturday, January 20, 2018 - link
Did AMD have a solution to the current impossibility of buying an AMD GPU? If we can't deal actually buy their GPUs, AMD might as well not exist, and in a very real sense they don't exist right now.5080 - Sunday, January 21, 2018 - link
Well, they do exist, but all are bought up by coin miners. Great for AMD, not so great for gamers and others that need a fast GPU.5080 - Sunday, January 21, 2018 - link
Hi Ian, are you still going to update this article with Lisa Su's interview and the rest of AMD's announcements?billyswong - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
Typo: The table of Ryzen 5 2200G said Wraith Stealth cooler but the article later said they are bundled with Wraith Spire (non-RGB) coolerET - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
I love "Dark Mode for RGB heathens". I love that heathen feeling. Would have bought one just for that great line. (Or maybe not, but I still like it.)"more nearer" has some redundant redundancy.
mobutu - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
To: AMD, Intel, ARM, whomever,call me when you have a brand new product that's not affected by spectre/meltdown family bug.
Until then, I'm not gonna buy into any of your products.