LordAlfredo

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With various end of year sales going on I started discussing 7000 series model numbering with AMD staff. Here's a handy guide we pieced together!

Mobile SKU 7ABC#:

  • A=3,4: Ryzen 3 (4 core)
  • A=5,6: Ryzen 5 (6 core)
  • A=7: Ryzen 7 (8 core)
  • A=8: Ryzen 7 if C=0, Ryzen 9 if C=5 (8 or 12 core)
  • A=9: Ryzen 9 (8 or 16 core)
  • B=2: Mendocino (Zen2)
  • BC=30: Barcelo-R (Zen3)
  • BC=35: Rembrandt-R (Zen3)
  • BC=40: Phoenix (and 7545U) (Zen4)
  • BC=45: Dragon Range (except 7545U) (Zen4)
  • #=U: < 25W
  • #=HS: 25-54W
  • #=HX: 55+W

All chips except Dragon Range are monolithic and will never have more than 8 cores. Dragon Range is chiplet ("desktop Ryzen on mobile" as an employee put it):

  • 745HX is 1 full CCD (8 cores)
  • 845HX is 2 CCDs with 2 cores disabled (12 total)
  • 945HX is 2 full CCDs (16 cores)

Think of it like 7700, 7900, and 7950 on desktop. In the same vein, 7945HX3D is like desktop 7950X3D (1 cache CCD + 1 normal)

iGPUs:

Where multiple are listed they mean Ryzen 9/7/5 respectively (Ryzen 3 has same iGPU as Ryzen 5). 600 = RDNA2, 700=RDNA3.

  • Mendocino: 610M 2CU iGPU
  • Barcelo-R: Vega GCN5
  • Rembrandt-R: 680/660/640 (12 CU, 6 CU, 4 CU)
  • Phoenix: 780/760/740 (12, 8, 4 CU)
  • Dragon Range: 610M 2CU iGPU

So for example, 7840HS = Ryzen 7, Phoenix, 25-54W. It'll be 8 core and iGPU will be 12CUs of RDNA3.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

7600 only works in UCLK 1:2 ratio so you're missing nothing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Really my best advice is look at any performance data you can find relevant to your uses. If for example you play games where 3D cache doesn't help for example (because some don't) or faster memory is a bigger benefit then Intel is the better choice. If you exclusively game and most benefit from 3D cache, 7800X3D is better. If you do more concurrent stuff it'll depend how deep down the rabbit hole you go and what you want to pay between i7, i9, 7950X, and if you really want to go deep into process affinity or game when not being productive then maybe 7950X3D.

I went AMD after my last 2 builds were Intel specifically because I do stuff with containerization and Intel has been subject to considerably more relevant CVEs than AMD the last several years (and it's still happening on newer generations, just AMD is also starting to have their own) so I both have security concerns and would be risking notable performance to patches that other people might not need. Plus I also sometimes game while waiting for building/testing so I actually benefit from the weirdness of my 7900X3D , but I also have a decent amount of scheduler tuning and some process affinity presets for other applications that I switch between via shell scripts. I would not recommend doing similar unless you really know what you're doing.