AMD Ryzen Mobile 3000 Picasso processors announced

As rumored, AMD has taken advantage of its time at CES 2019 to announce its new second-generation AMD Ryzen Mobile 3000 processors, as well as two new Athlon processors based on the Zen architecture.

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AMD Ryzen Mobile 3000 Picasso are now official

The new AMD Ryzen Mobile 3000 APUs represent the second generation of AMD notebook processors based on its Zen architecture. All of them make use of Picasso silicon, which is manufactured with GlobalFoundries' 12nm FinFET node to offer an improvement in energy efficiency compared to the previous 14nm. At the same time, it offers some of the memory and cache latency improvements that the Ryzen 2000 series desktop has managed to define.

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Moving to the GlobalFoundries 12nm FinFET manufacturing process enables these new processors to offer similar performance, while offering longer battery life, which is very important for users who need to travel regularly with their equipment. of work.

As for the integrated graphics, we continue to have the Vega architecture, the latest AMD design that has the mission of defending the company's honor until the arrival of Navi, already with the 7nm manufacturing process of TSMC that should offer a massive leap forward in performance and energy efficiency.

Speaking of performance, AMD claims that its new Ryzen 5 3500U is capable of offering superior performance to the Core i5 8250U, specifically 14% better in PCMark 10, 27% in Adobe Photoshop and a tie in Microsoft Office. They also talk about gaming performance, where the integrated Vega graphics are way above Intel.

Technical characteristics

	Cores / threads	TDP (W)	Clock (MHz)	GPU architecture	Compute Units	Clock GPU	L3 cache	Node	Video outputs
AMD Ryzen 7 3750H	4/8	35	4.0 / 2.3	Vega	10	1400	6 MB	12nm	4X
AMD Ryzen 7 3700U	4/8	fifteen	4.0 / 2.3	Vega	10	1400	6 MB	12nm	4X
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H	4/8	35	3.7 / 2.1	Vega	8	1200	6 MB	12nm	4X
AMD Ryzen 5 3550U	4/8	fifteen	3.7 / 2.1	Vega	8	1200	6 MB	12nm	4X
AMD Ryzen 3 3300U	4/4	fifteen	3.5 / 2.1	Vega	6	1200	6 MB	12nm	4X
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U	2/4	fifteen	3.7 / 2.6	Vega	3	1200	5 MB	12nm	3X
AMD Athlon 300U	2/4	fifteen	3.3 / 2.4	Vega	3	1000	5 MB	12nm	3X

Athlon 220GE and Athlon 240GE also announced

Along with them, the new AMD Athlon 220GE and Athlon 240GE have been announced, which are based on two Zen x86 cores with SMT, allowing a total of four threads to be offered . They also have Vega graphics with 3 computing units, which translates to 192 stream processors, and a 35-watt TDP. These new processors will be ideal when it comes to building a system with a very tight price, but quite good benefits.

• AMD Athlon 220GE - 3.4GHz, TDP: 35WAMD Athlon 240GE - 3.5GHz, TDP: 35W

What do you think about these AMD developments in the field of laptop processors and the new Athlon?