AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPUs are here to take on Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake laptop chips

Re:AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPUs are here to take on Intel’s 10n... by arcticbull on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:47PM (#21974905)

> Sure, they still should have called it the Ryzen 3000.

Why? It's just a name. It's not the same as a 3700X, it's been modified, tweaked and revised to meet a different application. It's a new version.

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Re:AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPUs are here to take on Intel’s 10n... by lhoff on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:13PM (#21975152)

The core part of it is unchanged. All CPUs with the Zen2 Architecture are made out of the exact same 8 Core die. Ryzen, Threadripper and Epyc. And that is one of the big advantages that AMD currently has compared to Intel. Take a look at the pictures. The CPU actually consists of 3 Parts: CPU, GPU, Interconnect.

What's new with this CPU is the GPU Die that is soldered right next to the CPU and the interconnect chip that combines CPU and GPU.

It should have been:

Ryzen 1000 - Zen1

Ryzen 2000 - Zen+

Ryzen 3000 - Zen2

But it is:

Ryzen 1000 - CPU: Zen1, APU: -

Ryzen 2000 - CPU: Zen+, APU: Zen1

Ryzen 3000 - CPU: Zen2, APU: Zen+

Ryzen 4000 - CPU: ?, APU: Zen2

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Re:AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPUs are here to take on Intel’s 10n... by makomk on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:18PM (#21975192)

These APUs are all single-die parts combining both the CPU and GPU cores, along with the IO, onto the one die. They share that die across the entire 4000-zeries APU lineup though.

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Re:AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 CPUs are here to take on Intel’s 10n... by lhoff on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:43PM (#21975398)

Yes you are right. I had some leaks in mind where they had a three die picture. My fault.

The CPU Cores are stil Zen2

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