The first AMD Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ desktop CPUs are already on the air, and such a prototype was recently discovered.
AMD Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’: First results in 3DMark
Based on the 7 nm architecture, the Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ CPUs (essentially an APU) will be equipped with the new Zen 2 CPU and improved Vega cores to achieve much better performance than the existing 12 nm Ryzen 3000 ‘Picasso’ chips recently released.
The AMD Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ design should not be confused with the Zen 3-based Ryzen 4000 desktop CPUs. The Zen 3-based Ryzen 4000 CPUs are known as Vermeer, while the Zen 2-based Ryzen 4000 APU line is known as Renoir. The Ryzen 4000 family will soon be launched on the laptop front with the powerful, low power Renoir third-generation chips, but it looks like the “Renoir” Ryzen 4000 desktop parts are also on the way to low end, low power consumption PCs.
An AMD Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ desktop CPU was seen by _Rogame running on a Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC motherboard. Motherboards based on the AMD B550 and A520 chipsets are expected to be released in the coming months. The CPU, which is a technical example, has a 3.5GHz base clock and a 1750MHz GPU clock. This is the same clock speed as the Ryzen 7 4800H and Ryzen 9 4900H, which may indicate that the chip uses an 8-CU design with 512 cores. The APU’s improved Vega graphics chip will provide better performance than the 12nm Ryzen 3000G series.
The number of cores and threads on this chip is not mentioned, but the total score for this piece is given as 5659 points in 3DMark 11. A comparison with the AMD Ryzen 4000 U-Series pieces at the same benchmark is made below.
- Ryzen 4000G – 5659 points
- Ryzen 7 4800U – 6309 points
- Ryzen 7 4700U – 5713 points
The value is definitely lower than the 15W notebook models, while the Ryzen 4000G series CPUs will operate at 45-65W TDP. One important thing mentioned in the leak is that the chip was tested with DDR4 2133 MHz memory, which would explain the much lower rating.