AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile APUs Coming With Radeon Vega Graphics

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD is ready to take Ryzen to the premium 2-in-1s, convertibles and ultrathin notebook market by launching mobile processors with Zen based CPU cores and Radeon Vega GPU cores! The AMD Ryzen 7 2700U and AMD Ryzen 5 2500U processors are the two 4-core, 8-thread parts that AMD is bringing to the mobile market. The U-series suffix was clearly done to target the same audience that Intel is going after with their latest 8th Gen Core series processors.

Llano to Ryzen Mobile APUs

Both the AMD Ryzen 7 2700U and AMD Ryzen 5 2500U processors have a configurable 15-watt TDP, so these two processors will be competing against the Intel Core i7-8650U, 8550U, 8350U and 8250U.

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AMD didn’t compare the flagship AMD Ryzen 7 2700U to the flagship Intel Core i7-8650U in the press deck slide below, but did compare it to the Core i7-8550U (4C/8T) and the Core i7-7550U (2C/4T) on Cinebench R15. AMD lost the single-core benchmark test, but excelled on the multi-core test with a huge difference between two quad-core processors. The testing on the Core i7-8550U was done on the Acer Nitro 4 Spin convertible notebook and we aren’t sure what TDP the Intel processor is configured at in that notebook. Regardless, the performance looks pretty solid.

AMD hopes to have systems with the Ryzen 7 2700U APU and the Ryzen 7 2500U APU available by the holiday and they already have a number of design wins. The Lenovo Ideapad 720S and Acer Swift 3 will feature both processors, while the HP Envy X360 will feature the Ryzen 5 2500U.

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Those ultrathin designs all look great and it looks like you’ll be able to do some solid gaming on them! AMD is showing that they are able to get almost 60 FPS on League of Legends at 1080P with medium IQ settings. Overwatch was able to get over 60 FPS at 720P with low image quality settings.

Hopefully the OEM’s bring some solid products to the market with these APUs as they look pretty slick!