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EricHiggin said:

Ryzen mobile 4000 is also still entirely Vega I believe, just significantly optimized apparently, and 8CU's max. RDNA is quite a bit more power efficient than GCN, or was, so 45w is higher than it should be if this was the same chip using RDNA. The die size should also be smaller if it was using RDNA should it not?

I'm starting to believe the rumors of SNY helping to fund RDNA. Possibly even MS as well. Why would AMD still be using Vega and GCN for their APU's? Could be manpower and time, but it wouldn't surprise me if part of the deal is that Navi RDNA has to launch on console APU's first, before desktop or laptop APU's. This would allow AMD to launch the RDNA 5000 Series discrete GPU's last year and this year, but they would have to hold off on RDNA APU's until next year, after the consoles launch holiday 2020.

*Smart shift tech for AMD APU's should also help. Being able to shift and focus resources from CPU to GPU and vice versa should allow for even better overall performance from the hardware that ends up in the consoles.

These APUs (4800H or 4800U) are still useing Vega, but its a much improved version, useing some of their findings from RDNA.
Supposedly these vega parts give +59% better performance than old Vega cores.

Which is why you see them say 8CU, will give higher performance (~30%) than last gens 11CU's.