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My recommendation here is to wait a couple of months until Ryzen 3 comes out in laptops. While an IPC boost is nice (rumors are between 10% - 20%) the real reas
by zachruss92 7y ago
My recommendation here is to wait a couple of months until Ryzen 3 comes out in laptops. While an IPC boost is nice (rumors are between 10% - 20%) the real reason I say this is because the new 7nm process should net a significant reduction in energy consumption. AMDs demo of Zen 3 in January showed their 8c/16t CPU performed almost identical to Intel's 9900k with 1/3 less the power consumption.
- pmarcelll 7y agoRyzen Mobile 3000-Series was already launched at CES, it's already available in certain models. It's also worth mentioning that these are 12nm chips based on Zen+, not 7nm and Zen 2 (the new architecture launching in a couple of weeks).
- klingonopera 7y agoYep. The 7nm is coming in Q3/Q4 as the Ryzen 3000 for desktop, the mobile ones based on 7nm aren't even on the roadmap yet, and if, would be the mobile Ryzen 4000 series.
- shmerl 7y agoMobile AMD chips are always lagging around one year behind the desktop ones. So mobile Zen 2 (7nm) will come out next year probably.
- dontbenebby 7y agoThanks for the detailed reply. If I don’t game does it still apply? I run VMs sometimes but usually have no issues since I tend to stock up on RAM.
- nine_k 7y agoIf your VMs consume CPU, as opposed to mostly waiting, many cores with low power consumption are beneficial. If all the VMs do is waiting for a network packet 99.9% of time, then not so much.
- dontbenebby 7y agoIt's not anything super resource intensive beyond the inherent need for the resources of the VM + host. I just got sick of dealing with some of macOS's idiosynchacies in it's Very Special Epiosde of BSD that is their CLI interface, so I spin up an Xbuntu or Debian image when I have a project. (That + snapshots makes it a lot less painful to try interesting things)