News AMD quietly announces Ryzen 8000HX series — Dragon Range Refresh arrives to replace AMD's top laptop CPUs

[Admin]

AMD has announced its Ryzen 8000HX line of processors, codenamed Dragon Range Refresh. The premium laptop processors will launch with products soon.

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[DS426]

DRR is meant to be a lower-cost alternative to Fire Range? I say that as FR is expected in 2025H1, which would mean in roughly the next 50 days if it stays on track.

 

[thestryker]

DRR is meant to be a lower-cost alternative to Fire Range?

While I'm sure they will likely be lower cost there are also more SKUs. The launch lineup of Fire Range is only two dual CCD models and one X3D dual CCD. This should allow them to wait longer before offering other SKUs (if they even do at all prior to Zen 6).

 

[sjkpublic]

GPU Radeon 610M? Is that a misprint? Why not 780M or higher?

 

[thestryker]

GPU Radeon 610M? Is that a misprint? Why not 780M or higher?

These are just desktop CPUs binned and packaged for mobile like Intel's HX line.

 

[HideOut]

So from what I see here, this is basically the same CPU as the last gen but plus 100 MHz correct

 

[Pemalite]

AMD's mobile lineup is a mess in my opinion.
Zen 2 and RDNA 2.
Zen 3+ and RDNA 2.
Zen 4 and RDNA 3.
Zen 4 and RDNA 2.
Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5.
Zen 5 and RDNA 2.

And many share the same "series" of model numbers.

This is just a boring rebadge launch to appease OEM's it seems as they like new CPU's to advertise every year.

 

[thestryker]

So from what I see here, this is basically the same CPU as the last gen but plus 100 MHz correct

It's exactly the same hardware with higher clocks whether that comes from better bins or voltage control only AMD could say.

 

[Amdlova]

This is the AMD way to milking the consumer no real change but the price always UP!

 

[DS426]

This is the AMD way to milking the consumer no real change but the price always UP!

Kind of standard in the business world. Take automobiles for example: a new model year but not a new generation or mid-cycle refresh means maybe new paint options, wheels, and probably not much more. They could have just offered those things in the first place, but new year, new models, new earnings potential! Let's also remember that big blue created the precedence for this practice.

Coming from more of an enterprise angle, it might actually mean extending support as typically support has a fixed, known-quantity end date from the time a product is released; therefore, even a CPU refresh with the only difference of +100 MHz clocks being that vendor support is pushed out again by that fixed length. This theory of mine extends to explain going back to when AMD introduced that crazy five-ring decoder wheel: https://hothardware.com/news/decode-amds-new-naming-schemes-mobile-ryzen-processors
Indeed, as commented on earlier, this means that architectures as old as Zen 2 and RDNA 2 are still being supported and will be for years to come. At least the older Zens are still benefiting from CPU stepping. :/

 

[DS426]

GPU Radeon 610M? Is that a misprint? Why not 780M or higher?

These are just desktop CPUs binned and packaged for mobile like Intel's HX line.

Yep, and the article mentioned this: that these CPUs are intended to be used in conjunction with discrete graphics. On the other hand, anyone that wants both a powerful laptop CPU and powerful iGPU has Strix Halo.