https://www.overclock3d.net/news/systems/asus_rog_tease_their_first_ryzen_powered_notebook/1
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Yes I honestly can't wait.
Yessssss. Now MSI needs to get theirs out there. I'll sell my GT62VR laptop in a heartbeat.
Normally I'd be excited for this. But seeing as how the last two ASUS laptops I owned were complete letdowns, not so much at the moment.
I am excited about the potential of MSI, Gigabyte, or whatever branded Ryzen laptops though.
There's also a rumored Alienware with a 12c Ryzen.
I'm going to be flogged for saying this, but I really hope we see Ryzen APU laptops with dedicated Nvidia chips (with Optimus, of course).
Would be a good mix of OpenCL/CUDA performance.
Pretty sure you can run cuda on AMD. The big draw for me though is dropping the graphics card. I would much rather have that space used for storage or a larger battery.
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Nah, you need CUDA cores for that. AMD GPUs have Stream processors. Both their own proprietary standards.
Yeah, different requirements for different people. I would rather have a dedicated GPU if I could use an external storage solution via something like Thunderbolt. Will be interesting to see if manufacturers find a decent way to implement Thunderbolt into AMD laptops. Would require AMD working together with Intel to get a reliable enough solution.
I don't use cuda, but I'm pretty sure you don't any longer.
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Ryzen APUs? Finally... I could use a much better iGPU than Intel HD 4400 in tablet form factor.
Otherwise I will simply go back to laptops.
I don't think Nvidia has the fabrication process to fit their GPUs into an APU, that's one other reason why Sony and Microsoft went with AMD. Otherwise, we would've seen a 1050ti in an APU instead of a Tegra from Nvidia already.
The Ryzen APU's will be using Vega cores instead of Polaris apparently and could be upto 720 cores on the graphics side. That could push AMD's APU's pretty far up the the dedicated graphics food chain.
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Beyond a few articles showing CUDA code being converted to OpenCL via C++, or creating a virtual CUDA core using the GPU as a resource pool, I can't find anything. Got any links?
@Giulianno_D, I mean as in having a Ryzen APU in the same system as a Nvidia chip, not sharing the same silicon.
I think Nvidia see a lot more revenue coming from ARM SoCs, which is why they don't step into the x86 APU market. That, or it'll mess with any deals they have with Intel.
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What's wrong with using Intel?
Nvidia have made a few attempts at getting an X86 licence, even going to the point of trying to sue for it.
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Nothing, just think it would be nice to have the option of either, so the customer can choose.
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Only 720? I think they could go as high (or almost as high) as Polaris 11 has gone (but then there is clockspeed, VRAM built in to the iGPU, etc). But that depends if said APUs only have 4 Cores or more CPU cores.
I just hope the cpu clock is not nerfed to shit. But these are going to be great for on the go video editors.
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Me too, I want to do some Dolphin Emulation as well, my i5 4300U served me well on that though.
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It would be interesting to see the balance of threads verses battery life.
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Ryzen laptops should be sweet machines. But I'm not really into ASUS ROG. In fact I kinda hate the brand. I can't wait to see something like a Dell XPS with Ryzen.
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