Jedibeeftrix
Limp Gawd
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Hi all,
We know we're about to receive a new Zen2/Vega derived APU produced on 7nm.
It will be announced at CES.
I have some questions for which I know we don't have answers - but I want your considered opinion:
1. If it is announced in Jan at CES2020 - do we expect immediate availability, or might it be closer to March/April before we see them in the shops?
2. Do we expect to see the launch of a mid-range motherboard chipset at the same time? Doesn't make sense to sell $150 APU's with $200 x570 motherboards...
3. Given i'm considering a 6-year cool-n-quiet htpc - is there any hope the video-decode and display-output portions will support AV1 decode and HDMI 2.1?
4. Do we expect the supported memory speed to increase beyond the DDR4 3200 used by Zen2/Ryzen3000 parts? We know that IF/mem-speed is fine one-to-one up to 3600 speeds, and APU parts do tend to arrive with faster memory speed support to feed the GPU portion. I ask because i'm not interested in overclocking - and 2x8GB DDR4 3200 is really cheap right now!
5. We 'know' the GPU is vega derived, but on 7nm. Do we have feel for the level of improvement in gaming performance offered over a 12nm Zen+ 3400G? For reference - my current haswell i5 mITX htpc has an AMD r7 270x in it (pitcairn).
We know we're about to receive a new Zen2/Vega derived APU produced on 7nm.
It will be announced at CES.
I have some questions for which I know we don't have answers - but I want your considered opinion:
1. If it is announced in Jan at CES2020 - do we expect immediate availability, or might it be closer to March/April before we see them in the shops?
2. Do we expect to see the launch of a mid-range motherboard chipset at the same time? Doesn't make sense to sell $150 APU's with $200 x570 motherboards...
3. Given i'm considering a 6-year cool-n-quiet htpc - is there any hope the video-decode and display-output portions will support AV1 decode and HDMI 2.1?
4. Do we expect the supported memory speed to increase beyond the DDR4 3200 used by Zen2/Ryzen3000 parts? We know that IF/mem-speed is fine one-to-one up to 3600 speeds, and APU parts do tend to arrive with faster memory speed support to feed the GPU portion. I ask because i'm not interested in overclocking - and 2x8GB DDR4 3200 is really cheap right now!
5. We 'know' the GPU is vega derived, but on 7nm. Do we have feel for the level of improvement in gaming performance offered over a 12nm Zen+ 3400G? For reference - my current haswell i5 mITX htpc has an AMD r7 270x in it (pitcairn).