After launching the AMD Zen 3 series of processing chips and also the AMD Radeon RX 7000 graphics card which uses the RDNA 3 graphics chip, AMD is now also seen finally launching their latest APU called the AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix Point" and also the AMD Ryzen 7050 "Dragon Range" .
Starting with the Phoenix Point APU, AMD is seen offering a number of processor chip models that combine Zen 3 processor chips with 8 cores and 16 power threads and RDNA 3 graphics chips with various core configurations to power the AMD Ryzen U, P and H series of processor chips that have a total power consumption 15W, 28W and 35W.
The GPU part of this processing chip shows the use of 12 core compute units and is combined with the XDNA artificial intelligence chip developed by Xilinx after the company was taken over by AMD. It is seen that this chip, combined with the RDNA 3 graphics chip will help in improving the gaming performance of the laptop in addition to ensuring that the power consumption is lower.
Among the series of processing chips shown under Phoenix Point include the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with a configuration of 8 cores/16 threads and a speed of 4GHz, AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS with a speed of 3.8GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS with a speed of 4.3GHz.
The AMD Ryzen 7050 Dragon Range processing chip is a series of APU processing chips introduced for more powerful gaming and productivity class laptops.
A more significant difference can be seen on this processing chip is that although it uses the latest Zen 4 processing chip, it still uses the RDNA 2 graphics chip for the graphics part.
AMD says they are doing this because for laptops that will use Dragon Range APUs, they will be paired with much more powerful graphics cards, and this is a way to reduce the cost of developing these chips.
In terms of the number of cores offered, this AMD Ryzen 7050 comes with up to 16 physical cores and 32 power threads. AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX for example comes with 8 percent higher single-core performance compared to the last generation model, but in terms of multi-core performance, it is 78 percent faster compared to the processing chip.
AMD confirmed that these Phoenix Point and Dragon Range processing chips will be offered in laptops starting this February and March, and will be on the market soon after.