A bevy of AMD Renoir Ryzen 4000 APUs for desktop leak, 65W Core i3 and Core i5 Comet Lake-S in potential trouble

[Redaktion]

22 OPNs of upcoming AMD Renoir Ryzen 4000 desktop APUs have surfaced online with 12 of them having detailed specifications. These APUs top out at 8 cores and 16 threads with boost clocks up to 4.45 GHz and have Vega iGPUs with up to 8 CUs (512 SPs) clocked at 2,100 MHz putting low-end Intel Comet Lake-S in trouble.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/A-bevy-of-AMD-Renoir-Ryzen-4000-APUs-for-desktop-leak-65W-Core-i3-and-Core-i5-Comet-Lake-S-in-potential-trouble.464911.0.html

[william blake]

good stuff for mini itx-micro itx.

[8&8]

exactly! @william blake :D

Go go AMD 65W APU will be a beast!
However I'll get orgasm when will create Zen5 APU with RDNA3.

if Zen2 : GTX 1050Ti = Zen5 : GTX1080? That's incredible if yes.<3

[Blue_Jay]

Suddenly desktops have become exciting again !!
Intel had nearly killed it.

[Valantar]

exactly! @william blake :D

Go go AMD 65W APU will be a beast!
However I'll get orgasm when will create Zen5 APU with RDNA3.

if Zen2 : GTX 1050Ti = Zen5 : GTX1080? That's incredible if yes.<3

Zen 2 APUs (at least Renoir, we don't yet know if next-gen APUs will be Zen2+RDNA or Zen3+RDNA) will not match a 1050 Ti in terms of performance. 35/45W Vega 7 Renoir with DDR4-3200 is about 2/3 of a 1050 mobile, and while some improvement can be expected from higher clocks and more power, it definitely won't be that much, let alone reaching 1050 Ti levels. Desktop configurations also miss out on the biggest potential improvement of this generation, which is LPDDR4X.

Nonetheless, I'm really looking forward to these - one of them is undoubtedly going into my upcoming HTPC build (which is finally happening with this generation of hardware - nothing until now has ticked all the boxes). I'll be waiting on prices, though - I was hoping for a 6C8CU or 4C6/7CU configuration, as the 8C8CU will be utter overkill both in price and power for that use case, so I guess I'll have to settle with one of the lower CU count ones. It'll still be a night and day difference from what it replaces.