AMD will introduce Ryzen 4000 (Renoir) on Tuesday, but is not going to sell them at retail

AMD will introduce Ryzen 4000 (Renoir) on Tuesday, but is not going to sell them at retail

The announcement of the Ryzen 4000 hybrid processors oriented to work in desktop systems and equipped with integrated graphics will take place next week – July 21. However, it is assumed that these processors will not be available in retail, at least not in the near future. The entire family of desktop Renoir will consist solely of solutions designed for the business segment and OEMs.

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According to a source, the lineup of Ryzen 4000 hybrid processors, which AMD is about to announce next Tuesday, will consist of six models. Three models will be assigned to the PRO series: they will offer 4, 6, and 8 computing cores, integrated Vega graphics, a set of “professional” functions for ensuring security, and a 65 W thermal package. The other three models will be included in the number of energy-efficient solutions with a thermal package of 35 W: it will also feature models with 4, 6, and 8 cores and a Vega graphics core, but the clock speeds will be noticeably lower.

The supposed formal characteristics of the representatives of the Renoir family for desktop systems are as follows.

APU	Kernels / threads	Frequency, GHz	Vega kernels	GPU frequency, MHz	TDP, W
Ryzen 3 PRO 4250G	4/8	3.7 / 4.1	five	1400	65
Ryzen 5 PRO 4450G	6/12	3.7 / 4.3	6	1700	65
Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G	8/16	3.6 / 4.45	8	2100	65
Ryzen 3 4200GE	4/8	3.5 / 4.1	five	1400	35
Ryzen 5 4400GE	6/12	3.3 / 4.1	6	1700	35
Ryzen 7 4700GE	8/16	3.0 / 4.25	8	1900	35

The Ryzen 4000 APUs are of great interest to enthusiasts, although they are based on last year’s Zen 2 microarchitecture. Due to their monolithic design, these processors provide higher frequencies of the Infinity Fabric and are more favorable for memory overclocking. As the results of preliminary tests that leak onto the Web show, the computing performance of the senior member of the family, the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G, maybe comparable to the Ryzen 7 3700X.

However, one cannot count on the appearance of such processors in the general sale. With the release of the Renoir family of desktop processors, AMD is going to solve a completely different problem. With their help, she wants to shake the hegemony of Intel in the OEM segment, where processors with an integrated graphics core are primarily in demand.

Since the beginning of this year, the Renoir processor design has been used in the AMD Ryzen 4000 series mobile chips, which are widely used in modern laptops. Such processors are built on the architecture of Zen 2 and are equipped with a graphics core Vega. Their production is carried out at TSMC facilities using a 7-nm process technology. In the desktop segment, AMD is currently offering the Picasso family of APUs based on the Zen + architecture. When the Renoir desktop processors will become available to the mainstream, it is still unknown.