Intel and AMD are ready to beat Nvidia
PC users must be familiar with the competition of two giants of the world's largest processor manufacturers, namely Intel and AMD. After a long time competing with each other, Intel and AMD finally decided to work together to develop a new laptop chipset in order to compete with Nvidia.
Quoted from the Ubergizmo page, Wednesday (8/11/2017), this new Intel Core processor will combine high-performance CPU with a special graphics card from AMD. Both companies claim, this chip is intended for use in notebooks are thin and portable. Later, portable notebook will provide the experience of playing AAA games with graphics quality equivalent to a PC.
Mentioned, this new chip is a combination of Intel Core Gen 8 processor with third party C core H graphics from AMD Radeon group. Intel also revealed the chip made by two competing companies will be the first consumer products using EMIB technology (Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge) that ensures super-fast communication between components. Interestingly, the EMIB can also connect the HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) chip of the 2nd Gen which indicates the use of GPU chip made by AMD, Vega.
New AMD Launches Ryzen for Notebook. Just for information, AMD has just announced the latest line of Ryzen processors aimed at notebook devices. Unmitigated, the company launched two Ryzen processors called Ryzen 5 2500U and Ryzen 7 2700U.
Whether Ryzen 5 2500U or Ryzen 7 2700U, both new Ryzen processors are paired with Radeon Vega graphics processor which was also launched in August 2017. Just for information, the speed of 2.0GHz is present in Ryzen 5 2500U can users increase to 3.6GHz. Meanwhile, Ryzen 7 2700U which has a speed of 2.2GHz can be increased to 3.8GHz.
In terms of performance, AMD claims both new Ryzen series processors promise increased CPU performance up to 200 percent compared to previous generation notebook processors. Not only that, the graphics performance was increased to 128 percent. The company promised this new notebook processor will be installed and can be tested directly in some notebooks made by HP, Acer, and Lenovo that glide by the end of 2017.
