Amd ryzen 4000 apu is announced with 30% ipc improvements

AMD has been unveiled at CES 2020 giving some very important news regarding its new products for high-performance PCs, laptops and the long-awaited new series of mid-range graphics cards RX 5600 XT. The red company focused on the Ryzen 4000 APU series for notebooks with great improvements over the previous generation, in addition to the announcement of a new top-of-the-range processor for the third-generation Threadripper.

AMD Ryzen 4000 APU is announced with the 4800U and 4800H models

AMD presented to the world its new generation of processors that Ryzen 4000 series U, H and Pro that will be present in a large number of notebooks throughout this year. AMD commented that more than 100 notebooks with Ryzen 4000 APU processors are expected during 2020, with the first 12 to be available in the first quarter.

The company detailed some of the pretty impressive performance per cycle (IPC) news, up to 30%, in addition to doubling performance per watt compared to the third-generation Ryzen APUs.

Ryzen 7 4800U and 4800H

There were two processors that were presented on stage, the first was the Ryzen 4800U, which was compared to the Core 1065G7 'Ice Lake' from Intel.

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The 4800U has 8 cores and 16 threads with a base frequency of 1.8 GHz and reaches a maximum of 4.2 GHz (Boost). The GPU has 8 cores and its TDP is only 15W.

In comparison with the Ice Lake chip, the performance in favor of the 4800U is 50% on average. The graphics are pretty obvious in favor of the 4800U both in content creation and in video games. Right there, the opportunity was taken to show one of the first laptops that will use this processor, the Lenovo Yoga Slim.

Later we could see the Ryzen 4800H in action, this processor has the same 8 cores and 16 threads of its younger brother 'U', but the frequencies are 4.2 GHz maximum (Boost) and a base frequency of 2.9 GHz. The TDP It is 45W and that unleashes all the power that is seen in the small comparison that AMD showed there on stage, where performance is superior to a Core i7 9700K desktop. In turn, it is 26% higher than the laptop i7-9750H.

The first laptop to contain this processor was also unveiled and will be ASUS ROG's Zephyrus G14. It also shows a curious customizable LED screen on the back. This laptop will launch in February.

AMD SmartShift

Lastly, AMD introduced a new technology to improve graphics performance in video games and content creation called AMD SmartShift. As they explain, what this technology does is automatically overclock the GPU when more performance is required at the expense of the CPU. A 10% performance improvement was seen in The Division 2. Also in Cinebench R20 there was a 12% improvement.

With the introduction of the Ryzen 4000 series for notebooks, AMD delves into the world of notebooks where Intel is dominating widely. We believe Ryzen 4000 has the potential to gain ground in this segment as well. We will keep you informed.

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