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You could soon buy a gaming laptop powered by an AMD APU. The company has listed the Ryzen 5 2600H and Ryzen 7 2800H on its website, two new processors that combine AMD’s 14nm Zen compute cores with its Vega graphics architecture.
AMD already did that with the Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G, its Raven Ridge desktop processors, but this is the first time that it has a solution for more powerful gaming laptops.
The new processors are also not in the same class as the existing U-series Ryzen Mobile chips either, such as the quad-core Ryzen 7 2700U. The U-series processors have a TDP of just 15W and are geared toward slimmer and more portable laptops and 2-in-1 systems, whereas the new H-series chips will be looking to make their way into high-performance laptops with beefier cooling solutions.
Here’s an overview of their specifications:
Cores/Threads | Base/Boost clocks | L3 cache | TDP | Graphics model | Graphics core count | Graphics frequency | |
AMD Ryzen5 2600H | 4/8 | 3.2GHz/3.6GHz | 4MB | 45W | Radeon Vega 8 Graphics | 8 | 1,100MHz |
AMD Ryzen7 2800H | 4/8 | 3.3GHz/3.8GHz | 4MB | 45W | Radeon Vega 11 Graphics | 11 | 1,300MHz |
In addition, both chips now support up to DDR4-3200 memory, a welcome feature that bodes well for performance.
The new mobile APUs will be making their way directly to OEMs. Last week, AMD also quietly announced two new desktop processors for OEMs, the Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X.
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