AMD released the 2022 Q1 quarterly financial report in the early morning of this morning, the revenue record also announced the roadmap of the consumer Zen4, and the previous only desktop version + mobile version is different, this time is actually the three major consumer product lines, the mobile version of the Ryzen™ 7000 will have a new version specializing in performance.
In simple terms, the desktop version of the Ryzen 7000 series, codenamed Raphael, supports DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, and consumes more than 65W of power.
There are 2 mobile versions, one is the Phoenix series, which has been exposed many times before, the successor of the Ryzen 6000H/U series, with a power consumption of 35 to 45W, support for LPDDR5 and PCIe 5.0, and are aimed at thin and light books within 20mm thickness.
The difference is that this time there is also a mobile version codenamed Dragon Range (Dragon Ridge), which is aimed at game books with a thickness of more than 20mm.
To this end, the specifications of the Dragon Range have been improved a lot, the TDP power consumption has been increased to more than 55W+, and the support is DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0, of course, there is also a 5nm Zen4 architecture.
Why did AMD suddenly introduce the Dragon Range processor? Official introduction to this is not much, but from the perspective of Intel's 12th generation Core, the latter has reached a new high in performance and core number, especially the Alder Lake-HX series, which brings the desktop version of 16 cores to the notebook platform, 16 cores and 24 threads, 55W+ power consumption.
Obviously, AMD launched the Dragon Range to compete with Intel in the high-performance game CPU, in the past this field was Intel's world, AMD now has the opportunity to face the 5nm Zen4 node.
In addition to TDP power consumption, the detailed specifications of the Dragon Range processor have not been announced, and AMD emphasizes that it will have three of the strongest games - the most CPU cores, the most CPU threads, and the most cache.
Considering that the mobile version of the 12th generation Core can do 16 cores and 24 threads, the next generation of 13th generation Core will also be upgraded to 24 cores and 32 threads, AMD said that the most CPU core can not be less than 16 cores, of course, it is worth looking forward to 24 cores and 48 threads, otherwise it is easy to lose advantages against 13th generation Core, after all, Intel's energy efficiency core is too easy.
In addition to the CPU core and thread leadership, AMD also highlighted that the Dragon Range also has the most cache capacity, which implies that 3D V-Cache technology can be directly excluded, although it can easily increase the 64MB to 128MB cache, but it is still unlikely to be used for notebooks.
From the amD point of view, the cache of the Dragon Range should exceed the Ryzen APU, the latter because of the integration of GPU units, the L3 cache is cut in half, and the Dragon Range should be a full-blood version of the cache, because it should be directly from the desktop version of the Ryzen™ 7000, not the Ryzen APU.
To sum up, the Ryzen™ 7000 codenamed Dragon Range should be a high-performance CPU based on the desktop version of Zen4, the number of cores can reach 16 cores or even higher, the cache and other designs will be higher than the native mobile version of the Ryzen™ APU processor, the core display part will be emasculated a lot more than the Phoenix series, but the CPU performance is more powerful, suitable for the game book with high-end graphics card.
In addition, AMD also confirmed that the Ryzen™ 7000, code-named Dragon Range, will use the HX suffix in the naming, that is, to reposition the current customized version of HX, and the HX series officially focuses on high performance, distinguishing it from the U/H series.
