- Hey guys, this is Austin,
this little chip is one of the most important new products
that AMD has released in a very long time.
This is the Ryzen 4000 series mobile chip
and with it you get a full eight cores
with solid graphics that can fit in
a thin and light laptop.
It is a very, very big deal.
So obviously, AMD has been working
on laptops for quite a while,
however for the most part,
they've been fine, they've been usable,
but in the last couple of years
they've started to turn around,
ever since Ryzen Mobile came out.
Now with it you have really impressive graphics,
and while the CPU and the power usage wasn't amazing,
it was still very usable.
However now, they've hit the 4000 series,
it looks like they're pretty much firing on all cylinders.
So for context on all of this,
over the last couple of months
I've been using the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1,
which does feature the latest 10th generation,
Intel Ice Lake processor,
with it I get four cores as well as a pretty decent GPU.
But with Ryzen Mobile the idea is that
the performance is going to be significantly better.
In the same tiny chip, in the same 15W power budget,
you can all the way to up to eight cores
with even better graphics.
Yes, my friends, it's a brave new world
where AMD is now making some of the best desktop processors
that are right up there with laptops too,
I mean, obviously it's CES,
we haven't had a chance to benchmark anything.
All the laptops are behind a plastic case,
because they don't want me to get near them.
But if this is anywhere close to what I think it should be,
it's going to be really, really fun
to try some of these laptops.
The lineup is actually pretty straightforward
and very similar to what you get on the desktop.
So, Ryzen 3 is available with four cores,
kinda similar to what you got last generation.
However, if you jump up to Ryzen 5,
that gets you six cores, with or without hyper-threading,
depending on which chip you go for.
And then if you up to Ryzen 7,
you're getting eight cores,
again, eight cores by themselves
or eight cores with 16 threads
on the very high end Ryzen 7 chip.
Now, that's actually what I've got right here
and the interesting thing here is,
that all the Ryzen Mobile chips
are actually using the same eight core dies.
So everything you see going down to four or six,
it's all going to fit in this tiny form factor
and there's pretty wide range
of the different kinds of TDP's that you'll find this at.
So, at 15W you'll very much see it
in some of very thin and light laptops.
But if you want to go up to a gaming laptop,
such as the Zephyrus,
which we took a look at a couple days ago,
you're actually getting something which is
much more in the 35W, 45W range,
which is very, very competitive with Intel.
It's interesting that they're using
the exact same chip across the board,
but they're able to get such good scaling
out of not only the Zen 2 cores inside,
but also the fact that it is running on the 7 nm process.
They could just, do that, you know,
eight cores and everything, that's fine,
don't worry about it.
What's cool here is that you're not
only losing a lot of clock speed either,
even with the top end Ryzen 7 4800U
it still clocking in at 1.8 GHz base and 4.2 GHz boost.
That's about what my current Ice Lake system is running at,
except that of course this has
eight cores instead of four.
Now, it's not a complete match with
the desktop version of Ryzen,
so there is no PCI 4.0 on this,
which isn't particularly relevant in the laptop space.
As well as it does take advantage
of integrated Vega graphics not Navi,
so it's a little behind the curve there.
But by saying, it's a little behind the curve,
they're still claiming that it's about 30% faster
than an equivalent Ice Lake system
and about 30% faster I would guess from that
based on the last generation of Ryzen Mobile.
So, what you're getting here is
something which is not to far off
from like lower end dedicated GPU,
think maybe like MX150, MX250,
that kind of ball park.
Certainly this would be good enough to play some games
like 1080p Low,
you could also have eight cores
to do it at the exact same time.
To do it, to game with, wait no, I guess...
You can game with all of it,
but you have like four extra cores
to watch Austin Evans videos on a constant loop.
- [Ken] Or stream.
- Or you could stream...
No, but you just watch Austin Evans videos
on a constant loop.
Really that's what you need eight cores for,
please watch my videos.
(ping)
Now if gaming is really your thing,
you're properly going to want to jump up
to the H series processors
and something like the Dell G5,
as well as ROG Zephyrus G14.
Now with this, it's basically the same chip,
it's just running at a higher 45W TDP
as opposed to 15W.
And with that you still get the eight cores,
but you're really able to essentially
boost it significantly higher.
So, opposed to base clocks on the U-series
being like 1.8 GHz or so,
you're up to, I think, 2.9 GHz.
But what you're really going to find this with,
is that this chip is going to
be paired with dedicated graphics,
whether it be like 1660 or a RTX 2060
or of course AMD also has their own dedicated GPU's.
But, the cool thing here is the gaming laptops
on the AMD and Intel side
are about to be very, very competitive.
I'm curious to see,
AMD is talking a big game,
they're talking about how this
is going to be very much equivalent
to like a Core i7 or even a Core i9 on the laptop side.
And if that's the case.
Wow!
Yeah!
Now it should be cheaper too.
So, the Ryzen Mobile 4000 Series will
actually be going on sale pretty quickly.
So laptops should start shipping somewhere
in the next two to three months or so
and I am really excited to give them a try.
So, obviously the last year or so
has been a very, very huge win
for AMD on the desktop side
and with the mobile side,
I feel like they are poised for
maybe not quite that same slam dunk,
because Intel does have a lot of advantages
in the power side as well as optimization.
But if AMD can get close, if they can get that much better,
I think it is going to be
a really interesting year for laptops.
I mean, this is, it's a lot of power
for a very thin, very small computer.
I am very excited.
Now, there is actually a lot more to talk about
and something that I think very much got overshadowed
is the brand new AMD Athlon 3000 Series.
So, if you look at the lower end of laptops,
you're going to see a lot of AMD,
like A12 and A10 processors,
and I'm going to be frank, they suck.
They're very slow and they're really
not usable for a modern system in 2020.
Well, thankfully Ryzen
and therefore an extension Athlon
has come down to that price level,
so, a couple of new chips.
So there is Athlon Silver and Athlon Gold,
in case you're curious about who they're targeting here,
essentially these are very similar
to the last generation Ryzen chips.
So they are 12, 14 mm, couldn't
quite get a completely clear answer on that,
but essentially, you're getting a couple Zen cores,
either with or without hyper-threading,
some level of Vega graphics,
which generally speaking,
this would be a much, much more usable system
at that $200, $300, $400 price point.
I can't image a more different thing to move on to
than the brand new AMD Threadripper 3990X.
So the Athlon is going into those incredibly cheap systems,
this is a 64 core processor.
I'm just going to pause for a second,
64 cores, with hyper-threading,
for the low, low price of $3990.
(clears throat)
Well, this is not for the faint of heart,
this is not for your average gamer
or UrAvgConsumer.
What this is really meant for is someone who
needs an insane amount of processing power,
but in a way that you can actually build
a gaming PC out of it.
So with those 64 cores,
you're actually getting pretty reasonable clocks.
So it's somewhere like 2.9 GHz on all cores,
and it will boost well up into four GHz
when you're actually going on single core.
But when you look at something like this,
it's not really meant for,
look you got to be someone whose
gonna really take advantage of that many cores,
that much memory, this is an incredibly high-end system.
But the fact is, even at $3000,
that's a great deal compared to Team Blue,
right, I mean you're looking at Xeons
which are significantly more expensive.
I'm very excited this thing when it goes on sale,
actually I believe towards the end of this month.
So that my friends is what AMD has here at CES 2020.
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Anyway, thank you very much for watching,
I'm going to go continue to be impressed,
because that's what happened
when I came to the AMD booth today.
(gentle music)