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But is Ryzen really on the laptop market? There are just few low-end models, nothing that I would consider buying, so for laptops I'm kind of stuck with Intel.
by mamon 8y ago
But is Ryzen really on the laptop market? There are just few low-end models, nothing that I would consider buying, so for laptops I'm kind of stuck with Intel.
- atq2119 8y agoI saw some pretty slick business models come out from HP. Actually held one that somebody showed me, it seemed well built. It'll obviously take time for high quality AMD-based laptops to become a normal thing, but with the CPU being en par and the GPU clearly being better than Intel's offering, it should really only be a matter of time.
- marmaduke 8y agoI think though with Dell offering laptops, desktops, and servers with AMD components the time is already here. OTOH maybe this Dell stuff isn’t on consumer market yet.
- marmaduke 8y agoYep Dell has Ryzen Pro 3/5/7 laptops, with Vega GPUs with same TDP as Intel machines. edit I almost ordered one but went with a different model to choose the keyboard layout. So my point is that they do exist.
- bitL 8y agoWell, not really, only low end and a bit of midrange. No chance to buy a trivial retina display with any Ryzen U. Like they just dump excess inventories of TN and HD IPS panels at whatever AMD has to offer, even if Ryzen U is far more suitable to 2.5k/3k/4k screens than any Intel UHD. AMD, please consider making your own premium notebook brand to teach your 3rd party manufacturers what your APUs are capable of!
- marmaduke 8y agoThe Dell models we have access to can be configured with Ryzen 7 Pro with Vega GPU and a 4K panel. Is that midrange?
- bitL 8y agoOK, thanks, first time I've heard about something like that! Will check it out (preparing money now)... Do you know the exact models?
- marmaduke 8y agoThe one I see is a 14" Latitude 5495, configurable with a Ryzen 7 Pro 2700U. I was wrong about the 4k screen, it's 1920x1080.
- bitL 8y agoAlright, a glimmer of hope for a decent Ryzen notebook has just died :-/
- marmaduke 8y agoWhat’s decent? I do HPC, data science and dev work, and that laptop is more than enough.
- bitL 8y agoSpecifically retina-style display. I have a perfect vision, can't go back to 1080p and use all-retina/HiDPI screens exclusively for 5 years already. Even got the very latest LG 5k2k ultrawide display yesterday.
- marmaduke 8y agoWow ok.. complete opposite, I intentionally chose a lower res display because I find it easier to read, obviates endless resolution problems and uses less battery.
- berbec 8y agoEven without actual Ryzen chips in laptops, we get the benifits. The Thinkpads and XPS series having Intel, low-power, quad cores is a direct result of the desktop chips going to six and eight core.
- Findeton 8y agoIs there a 6-core mobile (low power) Ryzen CPU for laptops? I don't think there is, which is a pity.
- mamon 8y agoI think it's impossible, because the whole concept of Zen architecture is to produce 4-core dies, and then glue them together to create a gigantic 8-core or 16-core processor. There isn't 6-core (or 8-core) Ryzen mobile processor, because it wouldn't physically fit inside the laptop. But Rome architecture, unveiled yesterday uses 8-core dies, so there's hope.
- Symmetry 8y agoI was looking into getting an A485 Thinkpad which has a Ryzen in it. Sadly, from reviews it sounded like AMD's platform isn't as good at getting into really low power states as Intel is and that shows up in battery life.
- unethical_ban 8y agoYo! I just bought an E485 from Lenovo, and it's definitely not "low". 4C/8T 2.5 GHz, Vega 10 graphics, 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD and 1080p 14" matte display. The A485 is better spec'ed with docking capability, ports, and an external battery. Linux works on it with some tweaks, and in 4.20 full support is added. Granted, it's harder to find, but I am hopeful that with Ryzen performing well, and their Vega GPU beating the crap out of Intel integrated and competing with Nvidia MX150, that we'll see more respect from laptop makers. tl;dr Buy a thinkpad.