JRPGfan said: AMD is releaseing its 2500u/2700u Ryzen APU's (15watt TPD) soon and leaked benchmarks are insane! Its crazy how power effecient these things are at low clocks.
How fast is the 2700u then? Well its a ryzen cpu with 4 cores / 8 threads, with max clock speeds of 3.8ghz. It does better than Intel's i7-8550U in benchmarks (Intels laptop chip from Q3 2017, which costs 400$+). Too put that into perspective heres a 15watt mobile chip, beating a i7-7600k (base clocks) in a multi tasking benchmark (cinebench):
vs the i7-8550U:
But what surprises me is that this 15watt APU has 1.63 Teraflop of GPU performance. The "switch" can use upwards of 18watts+ when docked.
Sony could basically do a Playstation 4 "switch" version with one of these! I had low expectation for "next" gen with Playstation 5 ect, but this news with the Ryzen 2700u laptop apu, made me see things in a new light.
article: https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700u-ryzen-5-2500u-apu-performance-leak/ |
We're at the brink of 10 nm... keep calm and you'll see real performance gains come 2019/2020 :)