Quote from: jeremy on November 18, 2022, 23:02:07Quote from: Poster on November 18, 2022, 20:08:57Well, all the of manufacturers have to sell old stock they didn't get sold since the PC sales slowdown. What better way to do so than to sell under the guise of a 'new, upgraded 7000 series successor' Apu
Zen 2 is a rebadged 4000 series. Like previous poster, 5500u series laptops with same specs on sale now for the same price.
Remember people, the real Zen 4 series to look out for will have Apu numbers 7*4*
It would be great if that was really the case.
Instead, AMD made a new bit of silicon.
RDNA2 with Zen2. They went out of their way to make this strange combination.
The 4000/5000 series you reference could either be Zen2+Vega or Zen3+Vega, I don't care to check up which specific SKU it was (5000 series had both variants).
It's not a horrible combination. Zen2 is an optimal design for small quad-cores, smaller than Zen3 on the same node.
The first problem is that rather than being identical to the Steam Deck chip, it gets 25% of the GPU cores. The TDP range is not any lower from this omission.
The second problem are the prices. It might command $400-700 if it had 8 CUs of RDNA2 like the Steam Deck. Instead, it's weaker and competes with cheaper 11th/12th gen Intel, and older AMD SoCs. Even the next-gen Atom i3-N305 should have similar CPU/GPU performance.
At the right price, it's good. It will eventually replace processors like the A6-9220C as the cheapest budget SoC from AMD, and could be sold for years to come. Even if you are not willing to buy it between $100-200, you would use it if the laptop fell from out of the sky and directly into your hands, because it's more than enough performance for light tasks.
The article didn't mention the dual-core Athlon versions. Let's see what OEMs try to charge for those out of the gate.