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AMD announces Ryzen Mobile 5000 series, new RDNA2 GPUs in first half of this year
The Ryzen Mobile 5000 series APUs are what you'd expect: eight Zen 3 cores instead of Zen 2 cores. That's apparently coming in February, though it's not clear how soon they'll be readily available rather than mostly out of stock. I don't see anywhere that specifies whether the new APUs will use a newer RDNA architecture or yet another GCN variant.
Also notable is that the new lineup will have "HX" series APUs, with a TDP of 45 W or higher, and unlocked for overclocking. If a laptop vendor wants to let the CPU use 65 W or whatever and design the cooling around that, they can. For comparison, remember that the max turbo power of a desktop Ryzen 7 5800X is 142 W. So it sounds like neither AMD nor Intel has any interest in losing the battle for high end laptop CPUs on account of capping power consumption too low. We'll see how the new generation fares against the upcoming Tiger Lake 8-core CPUs from Intel, but I'd expect AMD to fare well. With Tiger Lake being on a 10 nm node that finally works, Intel at least has a chance at being competitive, though.
AMD also said that they'll launch new discrete GPUs in the first half of this year, both for desktops and laptops. That's all RDNA2-based, so it's their new lineup. They didn't announce the precise timing of the launches, nor when we'll see real availability. Intel's CEO said that demand for CPUs dropped in the first half of 2020, then spiked way upward in the latter half of the year, and that's why we're seeing shortages.
Also notable is that the new lineup will have "HX" series APUs, with a TDP of 45 W or higher, and unlocked for overclocking. If a laptop vendor wants to let the CPU use 65 W or whatever and design the cooling around that, they can. For comparison, remember that the max turbo power of a desktop Ryzen 7 5800X is 142 W. So it sounds like neither AMD nor Intel has any interest in losing the battle for high end laptop CPUs on account of capping power consumption too low. We'll see how the new generation fares against the upcoming Tiger Lake 8-core CPUs from Intel, but I'd expect AMD to fare well. With Tiger Lake being on a 10 nm node that finally works, Intel at least has a chance at being competitive, though.
AMD also said that they'll launch new discrete GPUs in the first half of this year, both for desktops and laptops. That's all RDNA2-based, so it's their new lineup. They didn't announce the precise timing of the launches, nor when we'll see real availability. Intel's CEO said that demand for CPUs dropped in the first half of 2020, then spiked way upward in the latter half of the year, and that's why we're seeing shortages.
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