During its ROG-themed CES event, ASUS revealed that its AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Dragon Range’ laptop CPUs can match the fastest Zen 4 Desktop chipset.
The AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Dragon Range’ laptop CPUs can match the Ryzen 9 7950X desktop chip with PBO enabled and are very efficient, ASUS claims.
This revelation came during the unveiling of the 2023 ROG Zephyrus DUO 16 Laptop, which will be one of ASUS’ flagship designs for this year based on the latest AMD Ryzen 7000 Laptop processors. We know that AMD is preparing high-performance chips of its own that will offer similar specs to Zen 4 desktop CPUs known as Dragon Range.
Categorized under the Ryzen 7000-HX family, the new CPUs are said to offer up to 16 cores and 32 threads with up to 76MB of cache. These are almost the same specifications as the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. The Dragon Range Ryzen 7000 flagship processor will also support PBO (Precision Boost Overdrive), allowing users to overclock the chip that already comes in a 55W+ package design.
ASUS claims that with improved cooling for the new ROG Zephyrus DUO 16 laptop, it can deliver up to 10% better performance using the same chip that can match the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Desktop CPU. Here is a specific statement from ASUS:
“In our testing, we were able to boost performance by up to 10%, and catch up with the Ryzen 9 7950X desktop chip.”
via ASUS ROG
Up to 10% performance increase with PBO in the Ryzen 7000 ‘Dragon Range’ HX.
ASUS: “In our testing we were able to boost performance by up to 10%, reaching the range of the Ryzen 9 7950X desktop processor.” pic.twitter.com/feqZkLi28e
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Now, that’s definitely a big deal and we’re seeing similar results from Intel’s range of Raptor Lake-HX CPUs that more or less match today’s fastest desktop chips. But ASUS seems to really acknowledge AMD’s superior performance per watt which could result in better thermal coding and lower power draw than Intel’s latest lineup.
AMD Dragon Range “Ryzen 7045” Mobile CPUs
AMD Dragon Range CPUs will target the high performance segment that has more cores, threads and cache than AMD previously offered us while Phoenix Point will target the thin and light laptop segment. Dragon Range CPUs will have a TDP rating of around 55W+ while Phoenix Point will have TDPs of around 35-45W. The 55W TDP is for the base configuration and we can expect the chip to be configurable up to 65W for laptop designs with advanced cooling and larger form factors.
Given that AMD’s current laptop lineup peaks at 8 cores, 16 threads, AMD will be targeting up to 16 cores, 32 threads with the Dragon Range family of Ryzen 7000 CPUs. The CPUs will also have more of cache comes to 80MB versus just 20MB on AMD’s current fastest laptop chip, the Ryzen 9 6980HX. Looking at the up to 74% improvement versus Zen 3 in multi-threaded applications at a threshold of 65W TDP, we can see huge performance gains that will also outpace Intel’s current Alder Lake-HX combination of up to 16 cores and 24 threads.
The new Dragon Range CPUs will feature a similar die to the Raphael SKUs on the AM5 desktop platform as such, and will also carry two RDNA 2 compute modules. The CPUs will be featured in many enthusiast laptops with high-end discrete graphics cards from all vendors but Mainly NVIDIA and AMD.
AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU Lineup (Official):
| CPU name | family | process node | building | cores/threads | base/hour reinforcement | cache | iGPU | iGPU clock | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX | Dragon-H group | 5 nm | Zen 4 | 12/24 | to be announced later on | 64 MB | AMD Radeon Graphics (2 CU RDNA 3) | to be announced later on | 55 watts + |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS | Phoenix-H | 4 nm | Zen 4 | 8/16 | to be announced later on | 16 MB | Radeon 700M | to be announced later on | 35 watts + |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS | Phoenix-H | 4 nm | Zen 4 | 6/12 | to be announced later on | 16 MB | Radeon 700M | to be announced later on | 35 watts + |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS | Rembrandt R | 7 nm | Zen 3+ | 8/16 | to be announced later on | 16 MB | Radeon 600M | to be announced later on | 35 watts + |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS | Rembrandt R | 7 nm | Zen 3+ | 6/12 | to be announced later on | 16 MB | Radeon 600M | to be announced later on | 35 watts + |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7730U | Barcelo R | 7 nm | Zen 3 | 8/16 | 2.0 / 4.5 GHz | 16 MB | Radeon Vega | to be announced later on | 15-28 watts |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7530U | Barcelo R | 7 nm | Zen 3 | 6/12 | 2.0 / 4.5 GHz | 16 MB | Radeon Vega | to be announced later on | 15-28 watts |
| AMD Ryzen 3 7330U | Barcelo R | 7 nm | Zen 3 | 4/8 | 2.3 / 4.3 GHz | 8 MB | Radeon Vega | to be announced later on | 15-28 watts |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7640U | Phoenix u | 4 nm | Zen 4 | 6/12 | to be announced later on | 16 MB | Radeon 700M | to be announced later on | 15-28 watts |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7520U | Mendocino Yu | 6 nm | Zen 2 | 4/8 | 2.8 / 4.3 GHz | 6 MB | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | to be announced later on | 15-28 watts |
| AMD Ryzen 3 7420U | Mendocino Yu | 6 nm | Zen 2 | 4/8 | to be announced later on | 8 megabytes? | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | to be announced later on | 15-28 watts |
| AMD Ryzen 3 7320U | Mendocino Yu | 6 nm | Zen 2 | 4/8 | 2.4 / 4.1 GHz | 8 megabytes? | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | to be announced later on | 15-28 watts |
| AMD Athlon Gold 7220U | Mendocino Yu | 6 nm | Zen 2 | 2/4 | 2.4 / 3.7 GHz | 4 megabytes? | Radeon 610M (RDNA 2 2 CU) | to be announced later on | 15-28 watts |