AMD launches Ryzen Mobile 7 2700U & 5 2500U with Vega Graphics

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PeterScott

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Maybe we will see some reviews of it soon. They're pricing it comparable to the 8550U, a little ballsy there.

A lot of people just assume AMD has dirt cheap pricing, but when AMD has products that a comparable in performance, they are usually comparable in price.
 

raghu78

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Maybe we will see some reviews of it soon. They're pricing it comparable to the 8550U, a little ballsy there.

2500u will most likely have 15-20% slower ST perf, faster MT perf and 2x the graphics perf of 8550u. Its a very reasonable price.

A lot of people just assume AMD has dirt cheap pricing, but when AMD has products that a comparable in performance, they are usually comparable in price.

Thats how AMD should price given that they are a business and have a responsibility to their shareholders.
 

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Maybe we will see some reviews of it soon. They're pricing it comparable to the 8550U, a little ballsy there.
A lot of people just assume AMD has dirt cheap pricing, but when AMD has products that a comparable in performance, they are usually comparable in price.
The way I see it looking at the pricing page for various x360 models, the new Intel based systems are discounted to match the Ryzen ones :)

Joke aside, we can't easily judge pricing in this case, what happens if the AMD based machine gets a $200 discount as well?
 

Topweasel

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2500u will most likely have 15-20% slower ST perf, faster MT perf and 2x the graphics perf of 8550u. Its a very reasonable price.

Thats how AMD should price given that they are a business and have a responsibility to their shareholders.

I don't know if it will actually be 15-20% slower ST. It's base clock is 200MHz faster and while it's turbo is 400MHz lower we don't know much about how that is affected by all of the possible TDP settings and cooling and this is using the Zen+ tweaked arch. There is a decent chance that even in a true single thread setting (though how often does that happen even when dealing with one ST only primary app) it will be much more comparable.
 

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The base Ryzen 5 2500u config with with a 15.6 FHD screen, 8GB DDR4 2400 (2 x 4GB) and 1TB HDD is a steal now at USD 600 .
 
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Not with an HDD at that sort of absolute price. Almost shouldn't exist in this day and age.

Very well worth springing for the m2 drive.
 
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Topweasel

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Not with an HDD at that sort of absolute price. Almost shouldn't exist in this day and age.

Very well worth springing for the m2 drive.

Well typically you get a base configuration like this because A.) It still a good laptop for the cost, I mean show me a better laptop performance wise with an SSD at this price. Or B.) For the chassis, Monitor, and CPU this is a great start for the price and would be cheaper for someone to install 16/32GB and a M.2 NVME than it would be to spec it out with those.
 

Topweasel

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Ah, if you're allowed the luxury of hand installing your own SSD then sure :) (Rare these days!)
Checked some video's it's not an easy task but no matter what any laptop with a spindle is going to be user replaceable.

Still saying the laptop is a steal at $600, even without being able to upgrade it personally, would still hold true. Whether spending more for an SSD or more memory is important to you. At $600 that laptop beats every other laptop at that price. I mean just look at the i7, any QC i7 basically starts at $300. You aren't getting 8GB, 1TB HDD and 1080p in laptop at $600 where the CPU starts at $300. It might not be the version you were choosing, but a person looking for a laptop that at least has the features that this laptop has and that's not even getting into the convertible part or the performance potential if the iGPU, this laptop is crazy cheap at that configuration.
 

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You can now buy the HP ENVY x360 with Ryzen 5 2500U.

It's available with up to 16GB DDR4 and 1TB PCIe NVMe SSD.

http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-envy-x360-convertible-laptop-15z-touch-1za07av-1

Maybe we will see some reviews of it soon. They're pricing it comparable to the 8550U, a little ballsy there.

Monster Cameron's first impressions:

http://apusilicon.com/hp-envy-x360-w-ryzen-first-impressions/

I have had this notebook for over an hour now and here are my rough impressions:

  • Very high build quality chassis and hinge.
  • Low brightness or dim screen.
  • Uneven display back lighting.
  • Back-lit keys!
  • Excellent audio quality via Bang & Olufsen.
  • Slow response or slow loading due to hard drive.
  • Snappy CPU 4C8T, single core up to 3GHz and all cores up to 2.6GHz.
  • Quiet fan noise profile.
Here is a quick cinebench 11.5 run I did on max power profile.

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It does seem to report dual channel memory, I’ll pop it open soon and physically check.

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Here is some 3Dmark Icestorm, wow! look at the generational leap!

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/23283227?

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15W TDP CPU, with 2.0 GHz base clock is outscoring 5 year old Ivy Bridge 3615QM. Not bad.
 

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I am a little annoyed that AMD didn't sent Ryzen laptops to reviewers, and instead, we are getting benchmarks from random people buying the laptops from Best Buy.

These are probably not ideal, 'quick' designs, done by plugging Ryzen mobile into existing Bristol Ridge platforms- most of which were very cheap. But there is some data emerging: HP x360 seems to be throttling much more than Acer Swift: Cinebench 476, vs 589 (same 2500U), and single core score on HP only 108- which means ~3.0GHz.
 

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