AMD mentioned Tuesday afternoon that it has made a change to its cell CPU roadmap, including an “excessive gaming laptop computer CPU” for 2023, code-named “Dragon Vary.”
AMD made the announcement at a small press convention following the discharge of its second-quarter 2022 earnings, which confirmed a reported document income of $5.9 billion on internet revenue of $786 million.
Dragon Vary, like AMD’s “Raphael” desktop processor, will use the corporate’s Zen 4 structure disclosed this previous January at CES 2022. There, AMD introduced the Ryzen 7000 processor that’s presumed to be Raphael; will probably be launched earlier than the top of 2022, AMD mentioned.
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Dragon Vary and “Phoenix” will probably be AMD’s CPUs for gaming laptops in 2023. AMD describes Dragon Vary as a CPU for “excessive gaming laptops” which might be thicker than 20mm, and Phoenix because the CPU for slimmer thin-and-light gaming laptops, in line with a slide AMD confirmed in the course of the press occasion. Dragon Vary, described as “new for 2023,” will obtain the “highest core, thread, and cache ever for a cell gaming CPU,” AMD mentioned.
Robert Hallock, the technical advertising director for AMD, declined to debate the specifics of the brand new chips. Nonetheless, the slide reveals a number of key particulars: Dragon Vary will help DDR4 and PCI Categorical 5, and devour greater than 55 watts; Phoenix will help LPDDR5 reminiscence, PCI Categorical 5, and devour between 35W and 45W. In response to a query, Hallock declined to say whether or not the reminiscence designations can be unique, or whether or not Dragon Vary may add help for added reminiscence sorts like DD4.
Hallock additionally declined to make clear different specs of the Dragon Vary chip, although he did say that AMD is making an attempt to attain the head of gaming efficiency. “We’re focusing on to have each gaming and multi-thread efficiency management,” Hallock mentioned.
With reference to Dragon Vary, Hallock mentioned he expects that the half will carry an “HX” suffix, designating it as a premium processor. “The large takeaway right here is that the Dragon Vary half… that’s a brand new space for us, a brand new sort of SoC for us in our portfolio, and that’s a direct results of that leaning into [the] premium market,” Hallock mentioned.