AMD has announced the first of its ryzen 3000 lineup ahead of CES based on the 12nm zen+ architecture for mobile platforms.

The first ryzen 3000 cpu’s have been announced and are currently on AMD’s site with the slightly confusing title of 2nd gen mobile processors. Though they bear the 3000 series branding, they are based on the 12nm zen+ architecture, which was used in their 2nd gen ryzen processors. For AMD, this is standard practice, as the 2000 series APU’s on both desktop and laptops used the 14nm process, though they incorporated features found in the zen+ architecture, mainly xfr2 and pb2,.

2nd Gen apu’s (ryzen 3000)

AMD claims these are the fastest mobile processors at 15w, which could easily be true, considering that the 1st gen apu’s matched intel’s offerings, and tended to offer better thermal performance as well. The 35w H-series parts are a different story however, with only 4 cores as opposed to intel’s 6 and most likely 8 cores very soon. Though intel’s processors may be very power hungry, they will most likely beat what AMD has in both gaming and definitely compute tasks, which, depending on how AMD prices this to OEM’s, may not present a major issue if AMD chooses to compete with the 8100H at 4 cores and lower clocks, with competition for the higher end parts coming later, maybe even on zen 2.

AMD also has A-series parts, which seem to be based on Jaguar or Bulldozer, and really shouldn’t exist, considering the existence of the zen based athlon 300U, which is in a strange position, considering the ryzen branded 2200u is identical minus a 200 mhz clock bump on the cpu and gpu, meaning that AMD either is selling the athlon for much lower prices to target new markets, or are simply making the 2200u seem better using the power of PR. The A-series parts will be featured in the first AMD chromebooks, so I hope they don’t leave a bad taste in consumer’s mouths.

The fact that AMD is announcing these using a site update and a blog post hopefully mean that the actual CES announcement will be incredible, here’s to hoping!

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Source: https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2019-01-06-amd-kicks-2019-offering-complete-mobile-portfolio-new-ryzen-athlon-and-a