AMD's powerful Ryzen 4000 processors

I no longer have my R5 1600 system but I am very keen to see pricing of the laptops that have the 4800H chips in them
 
blaaislaai said:
I will probably wait for the 5th or 6th gen, before I upgrade my 2600
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These Ryzen 4000 processors are mobile only at the moment, so they are the same generation as the 3000 series.

Nonetheless, 8 cores and 16 threads in 15w is impressive.

I have a Ryzen 3500U with 4 cores and 8 threads. This thing would have double the cores, double the threads and higher IPC. And a more powerful GPU. For the same amount of power.
 
mr_norris said:
That makes two of us. I am also hoping they pair them with something like a 5700 or Nvidia equivalent.
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From what I can tell, they have remained with Vega 8 on the 4800H probably to keep the power envelope down.

Anything more powerful GPU-wise would take away too much current from the CPU, I'd imagine, and the limitations with the Vega APU's are mostly due to limited bandwidth on the DDR4 bus. There is the possibility of having a dGPU option made available to us, but again, I'd imagine some sacrifices would need to be made (laptop thickness, power efficiency, adequate cooling)

EDIT: I hear lots of people complain that the generations aren't equivalent across desktop and laptop, ie. 3xxx on Desktop is equiv. to 4xxx on Laptop. For me it makes more sense - use the earlier 'worse' silicon for desktop use where power and efficiency constraints don't matter as much and when the process matures, put that silicon that can achieve the same clocks with less voltage in the mobile devices where battery life and cooling is usually more important due to size constraints.
 
I've been looking forward to this. I knew 7nm would make AMD competitive in the mobile market again, and it's about time.
 
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