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Mine wasnt much over a week late to ship I don't think, ordered on the 22nd.
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OcUK AMD Renoir review thread
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Mine wasnt much over a week late to ship I don't think, ordered on the 22nd.
Caporegime
So much performance, this is in intelligent cooling mode:
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Caporegime
Absolutely. That's a really nice combination.
As I don't need any SSD's or Windows etc, I can get a 17" for about £1120 with 16Gb ram and two year quick repair warranty so severely tempted.
Soldato
Received my one of the 4800U equipped Lenovo's just a couple of days ago. Admittedly heavily discounted, but what AMD have achieved here for the cost (consider that Lenovo could even offer this for sub £500 with discount), and the power envelope is staggering. The 4800U in standard 15W balanced mode, NOT higher TDP performance mode, was for example EASILY beating my friend's Desktop 8700 based Mac in both single and multithreaded performance in Cinebench. Considering that was top dog around a year ago, and is now being handily beaten by a 15W mobile part, in single core also...
This was for my family, perfect all rounder little machine, and the 8CU Vega was surprisingly pokey. OK its not a powerhouse and intensive stuff can bring it to its knees, but it's actually faster than the 7750 GDDR5 model I had in my HTPC up until last year, and is able to run things like Doom Eternal around the 60FPS mark at 1080p, albeit with dynamic resolution scaling often dropping to about half that. With that in mind I'm sure it'll run anything at LEAST 720P 30FPS+, and a lot of stuff at 1080P.
Impressive for integrated graphics.
This was for my family, perfect all rounder little machine, and the 8CU Vega was surprisingly pokey. OK its not a powerhouse and intensive stuff can bring it to its knees, but it's actually faster than the 7750 GDDR5 model I had in my HTPC up until last year, and is able to run things like Doom Eternal around the 60FPS mark at 1080p, albeit with dynamic resolution scaling often dropping to about half that. With that in mind I'm sure it'll run anything at LEAST 720P 30FPS+, and a lot of stuff at 1080P.
Impressive for integrated graphics.
That is impressive! Enjoy!
Soldato
Well it's for the mother-in-law, she's not the most technical, but she's very impressed with it.
And yes a quick perusal of the 3dmark Firestrike database suggests the Vega 8 (Renoir improved version), when paired with DDR4 3200, performs a little weaker than a 7790 desktop card (or GTX 660 for an Nvidia equivalent), and faster than a 7770.
I realise that's an older dedicated card now, around 5 years, but still very impressive for INTEGRATED.
And yes a quick perusal of the 3dmark Firestrike database suggests the Vega 8 (Renoir improved version), when paired with DDR4 3200, performs a little weaker than a 7790 desktop card (or GTX 660 for an Nvidia equivalent), and faster than a 7770.
I realise that's an older dedicated card now, around 5 years, but still very impressive for INTEGRATED.
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Caporegime
I love mine. 15Ws for an 8c16t processor is mad. What they've managed to eek out of that silicon is crazy. Fast RAM and 1600mhz IF speed too is really impressive.
Soldato
Yes, I also liked it. Its scarily close to my 9880H even at balanced mode (and ESPECIALLY in performance mode with TDP raised), and I promise the fans this i9 needs, especially when the thing is unlocked to 90+W makes the fans on the Lenovo seem non existent 
Caporegime
That looks like the sweet spot to me if gaming is a big part of what you do.
The Lenovo deals are just amazing value though, and even without a dedicated GPU I'm still enjoying gaming on my Ideapad.
Yeah it is what it's primary use would be. Pity I won't receive it for a month or so yet.
Enjoy your machine. That's some steps AMD have gained lately. Im impressed!
AMD making more inroads into Intel's market as Microsoft Surface with AMD APU's pop up on 3d mark https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewansp...fications-price-versus-new-leak/#d3f2273677ac
I saw something about the Surface Go with a Ryzen 4000 series chip. You've got to think if they can keep cost envelope similar but, drastically increase performance and battery life (suppose across the range) it would be a game changer for Microsoft.
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Would LOVE an XPS with renoir inside. Would be an insane laptop in every regard.
Sadly Dells history with AMD is not stellar, so I doubt it will happen in the near term, but one can dream.
Sadly Dells history with AMD is not stellar, so I doubt it will happen in the near term, but one can dream.
Caporegime
Just need a Surface device with an OLED panel and an AMD chip and I can buy a new laptop 