Along with the release of its Q1 2022 financial results, AMD also revealed its plans for its upcoming Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 series laptop CPUs, as shown in a slideshow tweet by ex Anandtech Editor Dr. Ian Cutress. It plans to target “extreme gaming laptops” with its new “Dragon Range” series, promising “the highest ever mobile gaming CPU cores, threads, and cache.” It also launched the Phoenix line of thin and light gaming laptops.
Okay, here we go, @AMD Dragon Range replaces HX market, DDR5. Phoenix has only LPDDR5 in the more traditional H market. Process nodes are not mentioned. Graphics not mentioned. $AMD pic.twitter.com/4BCYQSMe1z
——𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (@IanCutress) May 3, 2022
The Dragon Range has a TDP of >55 watts, is designed for laptops thicker than 20mm, and is primarily designed to be used when plugged in, edge report. AMD told Cutress that they will feature PCIe 5 architecture and DDR5 RAM, although some models could use the more efficient but lower performance LPDDR5.
Like the Ryzen 9 4900HS chip, the Dragon Range will use the “HS” suffix. Despite a relatively high TDP of 55 watts, they will be “significantly more power efficient than other laptops on a competitive time frame,” according to AMD’s director of technical marketing, Robert Hallock.
Along with the Dragon Range, AMD will introduce the Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 “Phoenix” series of APUs, designed for thin and light laptops under 20mm thick with a TDP of 35-45 watts. These will also use the PCIe 5 architecture, but will feature mostly LPDDR5 RAM. Like the Dragon Range, some models can also use DDR5 memory.
Ryzen 7000 will launch on desktops later this year alongside the Raphael series, replacing the Ryzen 5000 series. This will be the first Zen 4 and AM5 platform chips using TSMC’s 5nm process node to enter the mainstream market. AMD didn’t reveal other details about the Dragon Range and Phoenix laptop chips, but they’re expected to launch sometime in 2023.
On the earnings front, AMD beat consensus estimates with $5.89 billion in revenue, with sales up 71% year over year. It also said that starting next quarter, it will split gaming into a separate financial unit, showing sales of chips for consoles (PS5, Xbox Series X, etc.) and Radeon graphics for PCs, as a separate gaming business from Ryzen part of the chips. The company will explain all of this in more detail next month.
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