First, Zen turned out to be a successful APU
2017 is undoubtedly one of the most worthwhile highlights of AMD's history. It is a year of the book's special books. The Zen CPU architecture's Ruilong/Nine Dragons turned out, killed the Quartet, and scored in every field. It also let Intel give up. Squeezing toothpaste, speeding up across the board, winning the entire industry cheers, after all, haven't seen the fierce situation you've been chasing after a long time.
In terms of GPU graphics, AMD Vega's new architecture is not as good as it is. Unlike the Zen CPU, it has unlimited scenery. However, with the new GPU, AMD can once again fly in tandem with Zen+Vega, bringing a lot of good news to the public. The long-awaited APU of the latest generation even went into the Intel processor for the first time.
In fact, starting from the huge acquisition of ATI in 2006, AMD has been trying its best to build the concept of APU fusion. Unconsciously, it has been 12 years old, and it is not easy.
From the earliest physical integration of CPU/GPU, unified memory controller, to later platform optimization, CPU/GPU shared scheduling and power management, to CPU/GPU architecture integration, unified addressing, to the final CPU/GPU system The integration, AMD step by step down, after seven generations of products, finally completed the dream of the APU fusion plan, the original day of the party's CPU processor, GPU graphics card, firmly tied together.
To a large extent, the APU has opened up a new era of heterogeneous computing. CPUs and GPUs can play their respective advantages and improve system efficiency. To be small, APUs can bring more uniform and cost-effective platforms to users. Need to buy a separate graphics card can get enough good graphics, video and gaming experience.
In the past, subject to the architectural design and craftsmanship, the APU always had a feeling that it could not make full efforts until the arrival of the Ruilong era.
Second, Rui Long APU Analysis: Dream
Ruilong APU is divided into mobile platform and desktop platform, but as with previous generations, Ruilong APU is also the first mobile platform to land on, starting with notebooks, again highlighting AMD's emphasis on the notebook market, and in the future, AMD. There will only be APUs on the mobile market, and no separate CPUs.
The new generation of APU adopts the most advanced GlobalFoundries 14nm manufacturing process, and integrates two new architectures of Zen CPU and Vega GPU, as well as DDR4 memory controller, multimedia engine, display engine, IO and system center, and uses the Infinity Fabric high-speed channel in close contact with each other. together.
The new architecture of this new process coupled with the design of the unified high-speed interconnection is very clever, and it determines that the interior of the APU is an organic whole, and is also the ultimate perfect product of the AMD APU fusion concept.
In the fourth quarter of 2017, Ruilong APU took the lead in the notebook market, starting two high-end models, namely Ryzen 7 2700U, Ryzen 5 2500U, all adopting 4-core 8-thread design, and integrating 640, 512 respectively. Flow processor, thermal design power consumption is only 12-25W.
In the first quarter of 2018, the Ruilong APU added two new mainstream models, the Ryzen 3 2300U/2200U, with 4 cores and 4 threads, and 2 cores and 4 threads (the only dual core in the Zen family), with 384 and 192 respectively. Stream processor.
In addition, AMD's GPU has always been rich in technical advantages, Rui Long APU also supports a variety of video encoding and decoding, 4K ultra-high-definition output, HDR10 high dynamic range display, FreeSync/FreeSync 2 display inverter, etc., can make the notebook easily become a video entertainment center .
The Ruilong APU is known as the fastest mobile processor. It is true from the specifications. It is done under the thickness of 1.38 mm. It is a miracle. It is very suitable for creating high-performance thin and light notebooks.
The introduction of the APU APU has also received a rapid response from notebook manufacturers. Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo have all launched their new notebooks. Users also have a brand new choice.
Third, the platform benchmark: completely replace the eight generation Core + alone significant
Said for a long time, the actual performance of Ruilong APU in the end how it? Can not bring the notebook to the new changes in the general change? Everything obviously depends on the actual data to speak.
In order to illustrate the problem, here we have chosen a detailed test of the most authoritative NotebookCheck in the notebook media circle to see the CPU performance, GPU performance and power consumption performance of the Ruilong APU.
This test of the Ruilong APU notebook is Envy x360 15m-bq121dx from HP With one Sub-class Ruilong APU Ryzen 5 2500U , At the same time there are 8GB DDR4-2333 dual channel memory (APU is very sensitive to memory), HGST 1TB 7200 rpm hard drive.
CPU performance we refer to the most authoritative, most convincing CineBench R15:
As can be seen, The single-threaded performance of the Ryzen 5 2500 is already relatively close to the Core i5-8250U of the 8th generation Core. The multi-threaded performance is almost completely flat.
GPU performance first refers to the same authoritative 3DMark:
More pleasant The Ryzen 5 2500U with 512 Vega architecture stream processors has easily surpassed NVIDIA's previous generation of discrete graphics cards GeForce 940MX, and Intel's top core graphics card Iris Pro 580, and is very close to the NVIDIA generation of the main independent graphics card, also in many notebooks Very common GeForce MX150.
Only the actual game, we look at the popular League of Legends:
Under 1080p medium quality, the frame rate can easily reach 40-60 FPS. It can completely fight smoothly.
If you replace the top Ryzen 7 2700U, CPU performance is comparable to Core i7-8550U, GPU performance beyond the GeForce MX150 is also a piece of cake.
For the notebook platform, power consumption is of course the focus. After all, this is related to endurance:
Ryzen 5 2500U notebook's load power consumption, game power consumption is only about 45-50W, much lower than the Core i5-8250U + GeForce MX150 combination, daily use of high load four or five hours, light load ten hours is very easy.
This means that if you go out with a Ruilong APU notebook, not only can you get high overall performance, but you can also spend your entire day worryingly.
Fourth, summary: light and thin not alone can also have a smooth gaming experience
In fact, after the birth of the Zen framework Ryzen Ruilong processor, a large number of users with emotion AMD back, while waiting for the new APU based on the new architecture, looking forward to it brings a new platform of higher cost performance, whether desktop or notebook.
Even more terrible is that stimulated by the virtual electronic currency mining, this year's discrete graphics market has been completely disrupted, a large number of graphics cards were bought by the miners, resulting in ordinary users, players want to buy a satisfactory graphics card are extremely difficult, High-performance integrated graphics become a new choice.
Although there is no need to purchase a separate video card for notebooks, for thin and light notebooks, if a discrete video card is added, it will inevitably occupy internal space and affect other configurations. At the same time, it will also increase the size and weight of the device, increase power consumption and heat, The cost of the whole machine will also rise.
Although the Intel processor is integrated with the core graphics card, but the more advanced models are, the stronger the display is, but the high-end models are not suitable for light and thin, GeForce 940MX, MX130, MX150 such discrete graphics became popular.
Ruilong APU brings a fresh air, 14nm new process, Zen CPU new architecture, Vega GPU new architecture, plus a variety of video graphics technology, to achieve the expectations of many users.
The actual performance of Ruilong APU is also satisfactory. The CPU performance has reached the same level as Intel's eight-generation Core. The GPU performance surpasses the 940MX, MX130, and MX150 discrete graphics, and the power consumption is properly controlled. It can be said that the future Thin and light notebooks, you can get a good enough gaming experience without a discrete video card.
At present, Ruilong APU notebooks are being born one after another, but it is not rich enough. We hope that more and more Ruilong APU notebooks will be available in the future to make this market more abundant.
