News AMD Ryzen 5 3550U Geekbench Listing Points to Vega 9 Graphics

[Admin]

The AMD Ryzen 5 3550U is an unannounced quad-core Picasso chip that reportedly features Radeon Vega 9 graphics.

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[rafaelramax]

Leaked specs are hardly on par with actual parts and that seems to be the case here. Based solely on the specs, it doesn't make much sense to me that H variant would actually be designed with a higher TDP than the U counterpart. Both are 4C8T at same base/boost clocks, but the U unit has 9 CUs against H's 8 CUs and still pushes Vega clock further than H equivalent. Considering both share same platform, litography, building process and architecture, I expect that this would translate in an higher TDP specs for the U parts. It is not exactly usual that both performance gains from enabling more CU and rising clocks come along with lowering TDP. I'm not sure that better boost algorithms alone can achieve it. For that to happen, I think there might occur a significant disparity between batches of the same chip to justify binning in that level. There might be something else that specs alone can't explain.

 

[hannibal]

U series can run shorter times of the max speed. H varian can keep the same speed longer time because it has higher tdp.

 

[alextheblue]

When comparing the two, Vega 9 seemingly delivers up to 10.85% more performance than Vega 8. The difference in performance is expected, considering that Vega 9 has one extra CU while also running 100 MHz faster than Vega 8.

Weird, I did not expect them to release something in between the 3500U and 3700U. Anyway, nothing will really shake up the 15W+ mobile market until Renoir IMO.