AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 mobile processors include a massive 16-core chip
by Monica Chin from The Verge - All Posts on (#67G72)
This is where the magic will happen. | Image: AMD AMD has announced its new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs for laptops. The list is a real who's who of mobile processor architecture, including Zen 4, Zen 3 Plus, Zen 3, and Zen 2 chips.
The potential star of the show is the Dragon Range" Zen 4 Ryzen 9 7945HX, which has 16 cores and 32 threads, frequencies of 2.2-5.4 Ghz, 80MB cache, and 55-75 watt TDP. I repeat - 16 cores in a laptop. These aren't Intel's little efficiency cores. These are 16 full Zen cores in a laptop's chassis.
This may seem like an underdog compared to Intel's top 13th-Gen chips, which have 24 cores - Intel has claimed that its Core i9-13980HX is the world's fastest mobile processor". This chip, however, only has eight performance cores and 16 efficiency cores, while all...