Among the upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPU lineup, AMD has prepared 2 mobile chip series: Dragon Range for high-end notebooks and Phoenix Point for mainstream notebooks. Both are based on Zen 4 cores and will compete with Intel 's Meteor Lake CPU after it is launched. Now, RedGamingTech has released details of the Ryzen 7000 mobile CPU.
AMD The approach taken in its Ryzen 7000 mobile series this time is interesting, but not surprising. Intel divides its high-end product line into two variants, the Alder Lake-HX and the Alder Lake-H SKU. The HX variant is designed to deliver the best CPU performance with a large number of cores and a large number of core clocks, while the standard lineup retains its high-performance positioning and mixes the excellent integrated graphics card . The same is true for the AMD Dragon Range and Phoenix Point 'Ryzen 7000' CPU series.
● Dragon Range
AMD Ryzen 7000 Dragon Range CPU will adopt the new Zen 4 core architecture. It looks like the new Dragon Range APU series will target Extreme Gaming laptops with sizes of more than 20 mm, which will bring the highest cores, threaded and caches to mobile gaming CPUs, according to AMD. This CPU also offers the fastest creator and productivity performance ever made on a mobile PC. The new Dragon Range series will also comply with DDR5 and PCIe 5 standards and will feature SKUs over 55W.
Speaking of SKU, there are rumors that AMD will use the “HX” naming scheme to differentiate between its Phoenix Point chip and Dragon Range components. It is said that there are four initial SKUs, the same as the desktop Zen 4 lineup. These will include:
● AMD Ryzen 9 7980HX - 16 cores / 32 threads
● AMD Ryzen 9 7900HX - 12 cores / 24 threads
● AMD Ryzen 7 7800HX - 8 cores / 16 threads
● AMD Ryzen 5 7600HX - 6 cores / 12 threads
Depending on TDP, the base clock speed range of these chips is 3.6-4 GHz+ and the acceleration clock range is 4.8-5.0 GHz+. So it looks like TDP can be configured according to the laptop design of different manufacturers. Additionally, AMD released the same number of cores as its desktop version, which does confirm that they will be very aggressive against Intel's HX components. As part of the RDNA 2 iGPU on the Dragon Range chip, there will be 2 more CUs. CPU will focus on discrete graphics solutions rather than integrated solutions.
Phoenix Point
AMD also recently confirmed that its Phoenix Point CPU will use both Zen 4 and RDNA 3 kernels. The new Phoenix Point CPU will support LPDDR5 and PCIe 5 and offer SKUs from 35W to 45W. The lineup is also expected to launch in 2023, most likely on CES in 2023. AMD also noted that laptop components may include memory technologies other than LPDDR5 and DDR5.
As for SKU, it is said that there are four Ryzen 7000 variants in the AMD Phoenix Point CPU lineup. These include the Ryzen 9 7980HS with 8 cores and 12 computing units, the Ryzen 9 7900HS with 8 cores and 12 computing units, the Ryzen 7 7800HS with 8 cores and 12 computing units, and the Ryzen 5 7600S with 6 cores and 6 computing units. Here is the full lineup:
● AMD Ryzen 9 7980HS - 8 cores / 16 threads / 12 computing unit (6 WGP)
● AMD Ryzen 9 7900HS - 8 cores / 16 threads / 12 computing unit (6 WGP)
● AMD Ryzen 7 7800HS - 8 cores / 16 threads / 12 computing unit (6 WGP)
● AMD Ryzen 5 7600HS - 6 cores / 12 threads / 6 computing unit (3 WGP)
AMD will be in its The Ryzen 9 and Ryzen 7 lineups contain several 8-core SKUs, and only Ryzen 5 has fewer 6-core and 12-thread core counts. The lineup will be equipped with up to 12 RDNA 3 computing units or 1536 stream processors , with a main frequency of approximately 2.6-3.0 GHz and a total computing power of 9.2 TFLOP.
RedGamingTech also shared a chart depicting a Phoenix Point chip with three small chiplets, a Zen 4 and IOD complex, a GCD with RDNA 3 and a MCD with 32 MB SLC cache.
It is said that Zen 4 and IOD chiplets are based on 4nm process nodes, RDNA 3 chips are based on 5nm process nodes, and cache chips are based on 6nm process nodes. So it will be a multi-chip design using a variety of core IPs on different nodes, similar to what Intel does with its Meteor Lake product line.
It is reported that AMD's fastest RDNA 3-episode graphics are really aiming at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q, the 3060 is one of the most popular laptop GPU choices, so if AMD can manage to provide performance close to it, it will be a huge win for the Reds as you will get some crazy performance designs of some chips at 60-70W TDP.
