Fear of AMD Renoir Ryzen 4000 could prompt Intel to launch Comet Lake-H and Comet Lake-S earlier than anticipated

[Redaktion]

Intel could be accelerating the launch of Comet Lake-H and Comet Lake-S CPUs to March this year to counter AMD's launch of Renoir Ryzen 4000 APUs around the same time. As per reports, a reduced pricing is also on the cards. The question, however, still remains. Will an early launch period help with Intel's fortunes against AMD's 7nm onslaught?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Fear-of-AMD-Renoir-Ryzen-4000-could-prompt-Intel-to-launch-Comet-Lake-H-and-Comet-Lake-S-earlier-than-anticipated.451323.0.html

[william blake]

usman pirzada from wccftech is my favorite guy in hardware news industry.
in russian(i am russian) his second name pirzada sounds like
assfeast or feast of the a**.
pir(пир)=feast, zad(зад)=a**. the ending "a" mean something first of something second.

[Anatun]

But sadly those 14nm parts are expected to be higher performing than 7nm TSMC fabbed AMD mobile parts. AMD's power management for mobile is extremely poor leading to poor battery life. Process-wise the TSMC 7nm performs close to Intel's 10nm. But due to AMD's poor power management design choice for using LDOs will lead to performing worse. In the desktop side they have core count advantage but here both are 8 core. So Intel should lead in since thread, multi thread and lower idle power draw leading to better battery life.

[xpclient]

If you want a laptop with Thunderbolt 3, the choice is still clear until AMD adds USB 4.0 in next generation. But by then Intel would have added Thunderbolt 4/PCIe 4 in mobile chips.

[william blake]

AMD's power management for mobile is extremely poor leading to poor battery life.

in zen 1-yes.

Process-wise the TSMC 7nm performs close to Intel's 10nm

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tsmc is more energy efficient.

In the desktop side they have core count advantage

energy efficiency. intel is unable to compete in (core count)*(one core speed) category. exceeds socket tdp too quickly, even with infinite number of cores magically available.

but here both are 8 core. So Intel should lead in since thread, multi thread and lower idle power draw leading to better battery life.

zen->zen 2 jump is too big
AMD should lead in any category under sustained load. single, multy and battery.
we have no clue about consumption at lower states, idle, youtube and so on.
intel will lead in short burst single core by exceeding the tdp by much.

[k]

seems AMD's destiny of giving tough competition but not leading will not change anytime sooner on laptop. don't know if will ever change because this was the right time with good zen 2 design. I fear it is start of intels come back like it was with core2duo after athlon 64. As history AMD never was competitive without jim keller. And now he is on opposite side. twice will be slaughter. The only wait is for intel 10nm followed by 7nm. Don't know how long TSMC or samsung can keep lead against long time leader in fabrication.

[william blake]

Don't know how long TSMC or samsung can keep lead against long time leader in fabrication.

amd will have a superior products at least for the next 3 years. this is like..by default. just looking at the roadmaps and execution.
market share is another story.

[Vaidyanathan]

While I generally concur with most points below, perception matters as well. The vast majority of computer users aren't tech enthusiasts and hardly care about what goes inside their PC as long as it does the job. And for many, Intel is synonymous with that.

AMD does have a perception barrier to break, at least in laptops. I think it could be a couple of generations before we see this happening.

[william blake]

AMD does have a perception barrier to break, at least in laptops. I think it could be a couple of generations before we see this happening.

it took just a couple of years for desktop cpus. media nowadays is too strong.
and now look at mobile
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/1032976/AMD-Ryzen-7-4800H-with-Radeon-Graphics
another year and all wrong perceptions will be gone.

[Fluffy punk]

usman pirzada from wccftech is my favorite guy in hardware news industry.
in russian(i am russian) his second name pirzada sounds like
assfeast or feast of the a**.
pir(пир)=feast, zad(зад)=a**. the ending "a" mean something first of something second.

lol, I never really thought about it this way (lox ebanyi pidr))