hello good people Eber here with Hardware Canucks and you've probably
realized by now that in our explain series of videos we try to put new and
interesting technology into perspective in simple and shorter videos we've
actually covered everything from Intel's latest command center to AMD's driver
updates to a lot of you know new things like processors and graphics technology
as well this time I wanted to tackle on something that isn't really new but
you'll see it in the upcoming months and that's AMD's 3000 series
Ryzen processors on mobile rather than desktop actually the difference between
mobile and desktop may cause a bit of confusion this year since they are
completely different animals so hopefully this video will give me a
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part out of the way AMD officially launched their 3000 series processors
back at CES this year and they targeted the notebooks and Chromebook market now
there's not a lot to talk about the desktop variants or the desktop
processors right now but we could still discuss the key differences between
desktop and mobile starting at the top the 3000 series mobile parts are based
off the Zen+ architecture and 12 nanometers manufacturing process used in
the 2000 series desktop parts likely 2700X that makes them second generation
Zen CPUs the upcoming desktop 3000 series will
use a new 7nm manufacturing process and the hugely updated third gen
Ryzen 2 architecture finally while 3000 series notebooks
processors are available now don't expect next-generation desktop CPUs to
be announced before Computex this year so anything I talked about from this
point onwards will be based on the Zen architecture that's currently available
on the notebook platform what AMD's trying to do with this
series of mobile processors is cover every possible market that includes
Chromebooks as well basically the Ryzen 7 and 8 series will cover mid to
high level gaming and productivity notebooks
while the you processors will hit these slim and light markets then the risin 5n
Ryzen 3 will take on the premium to mainstream Windows segments respectively
while the new Athlon would likely hit the value market in laptops that costs
less than 750 dollars another thing to take note of is that every processor
here is actually an APU with integrated vaca graphics which is awesome
the last thing here are the a 4 and a 6 which I won't really talk about here
since they're really for entry-level Chromebooks rather than pcs another
interesting thing that AMD brought up is that an average consumer has a notebook
that's almost 5 years old actually coming to think of it that seems like
Mike from our team who's been rocking the Vails II back from 2010 and he just
recently got the chance to upgrade it to the x1 carbon from lenovo but coming
back to my point according to AMD there's an expectation
of upwards of 60% improvement from back then till now which may or may not seem
like a huge bump but if you guys are interested in us testing out those
claims definitely let us know in the comments down below because I'm sure we
can find out where that they are z laptop is this must be like somewhere in
his household so we'll make that happen if you guys are interested so here are
the specs of all the AMD 3000 series mobile processors and instead of boring
you by talking about a bunch of specs I'll let you pause here but I also
wanted to highlight some important points like I said before take note that
the Ryzen 7 3750H and the Ryzen 5 3550H are quad core eight 335 watt CPUs
that target gaming notebooks meanwhile all the other processors you see here
are meant to maximize battery life and lower Heat by operating at 15 watts ask
for graphics nothing really has changed since the 2000 series notebook
processors other than the tall nanometer manufacturing process allows for a bit
higher GPU clock speeds all of these feature of Vega graphics with between 10
and 3 computer units that means Vega 10 here has 640 computer units
which translates into a bit less performance than the Radeon rx550 so
what does that mean for gaming performance before a discrete GPU is
factored into things in a MIDI zone tests they achieved better gaming
performance on the integrated graphics than Intel's
whiskey lake core i7 85 65 you with a UHD 620 GPU core but honestly guys this
is splitting hairs since these results were taken at just 720p whereas almost
every notebook these days has a 1080p display so the AMD 3700 you can provide
more performance but honestly I think they should be a bit worried
remember Intel's new gen 11 graphics core is on its way with ice Lake and
they should offer almost 50% more performance with intel's GPU division
now being run by a bunch of ex AMD employees that could cause some issues
now in our briefing with AMD they said that they were supposed to have 33% more
design wins this year and I really hope that becomes reality because right now
it is really and I mean really hard to find an all aiming notebook that doesn't
fit the cheap category let's actually take a look at the a suicide for example
so even though they have over 50 notebooks there are four with AMD
processors and of those two of those are tough models that aren't available yet
one of the vive books is from 2016 while the only one available to actually buy
has an older 2000 series CPU luckily companies like HP Lenovo and
even Dell are starting to include more aimed at offering 'z but it's been a
really slow process as a matter of fact we actually looked at the tough FX 500
5dy during CES and you can find that link right over here unfortunately back
then a lot of you commented that for the specs of a Ryzen 5 3550H and an rx560
GPU it was really overpriced not only that but the build quality was
pretty terrible and you know what I think Asus agreed with all of us since
now it's available for about $700 and if rumors are right
it'll be relaunched soon in a more powerful version with an NVIDIA GPU so
that's a guys and honestly even though the B CPUs look good on paper I feel
like I say the same thing every year with AMD's mobile platform and what
they're offering because being able to buy them after is just
nearly impossible which is just really unfortunate honestly things could change
this here because what we've seen Zen to is able to deliver great performance and
good efficiency in a relatively affordable package I guess it's just a
matter of time for noble manufacturers to implement them and add them as an
alternative option to what Intel's offering so I just can't wait for that
to happen I want to know your thoughts about this new CPU or this new 3000
series mobile CPU's from AMD would you consider yourself upgrading to an all
and in notebook in the future because of you know what they're offering right now
but they potentially look like they'll be offering I loved in your thoughts
about that in the comments I'm Eber are with Hardware Canucks thank you so much
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