AMD will be having their CES 2022 show on the 4th of January next year, and many are expecting brand new Ryzen desktop and mobile processors, along with potentially a new entry-level Radeon graphics card. However, before that big day comes we may already have some idea of what’s in store, at least in the mobile division anyway, according to the Benchleaks Twitter account.
Benchleaks is a Twitter bot that pretty much scans through the many benchmarking repositories and results, and highlights any unknown or unreleased GPU and CPU results. One of its tweets was about an AMD engineering sample CPU on the BAPCo Crossmark benchmark. The chip was named as ‘AMD Eng Sample: 100-000000560-40_Y’ and is an 8-core, 16-thread processor, and had 16GB of dual-channel RAM attached. Curiously, its memory was running at 4800MHz, a speed that hints at DDR5 or LPDDR5 RAM. This could mean that the upcoming AMD Ryzen 6000 lineup of mobile processors could support DDR5 memory.
Other details of the benchmarked processor also show that it was tested on an Asus system with the model number M3402RA. While the benchmark results claim that its a desktop system, the Asus M3402RA system is more likely one of their upcoming laptops. Their recently released Vivobook Pro 14 and 15 OLED came with the model numbers M3401 and M3500 respectively, and so it’s safe to assume that the M3402RA could’ve been Asus testing laptops with AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 6000 mobile processors. Another hint at this being a mobile processor is that the tested device had a display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600p, a common laptop screen resolution.
The benchmarks results themselves weren’t very impressive. It had an overall score of 1,426 on the Crossmark benchmark, with puts it roughly along the same region of an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H chip. That being said, it’s still an engineering sample, and so performance was never going to be as good as the final product. What the benchmark result does show is that the upcoming AMD Ryzen 6000 mobile chips may support DDR5 memory. Right now, Intel’s desktop Alder Lake chips are the only ones in the market with support for DDR5 RAM, but many expect AMD to launch their own processors with DDR5 support during their CES 2022 show.
What should be noted though is that the AMD Ryzen 6000 chips are set to be based on the Zen3+ architecture, rather than Zen 4 which will be on AMD Ryzen 6000 desktop CPUs. This means that the upcoming AMD mobile processors might not offer as big of an upgrade compared to the current generation of Ryzen 5000 mobile processors other than DDDR5 support. However, these Zen3+ chips are purportedly coming with RDNA2 integrated graphics, and so could offer a massive performance boost in graphics compared to their current Vega-based solution or even Intel’s Iris Xe graphics. What’s for certain though is that we can’t wait for CES 2022 to arrive, and for them to show off their latest and greatest silicon.
