AMD Ryzen 6000 and 7000 series

Sascha Wehnl

• June 20, 2023 19:41

I'm planning to by a new laptop, primarily because on1 photo raw 2020 is too slow on my current ThinkPad E480 with i7-8850U, a (heavily throttled) Radeon RX550, 16 GB RAM and an SSD.

I'm considering an upgrade to 2023 version, and this needs even more power ...

Does anyone have experience with the new integrated graphics in the 6000 and 7000 series of Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 (Radeon 680M or even 780M)? I've seen benchmarks that indicate the newest of those chips to be somewhere between the M2 and M2 Pro (CPU+GPU), so not too bad. The GPUs seem to be in a league with GTX1660 ....

Would such CPUs with integrated GPU be good enough, or do I still need a dedicated GPU? (like a RTX 3050/3060/4050/....)

 

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  Don Maclean

  • June 21, 2023 00:16
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  I upgraded my PC with the following specifications, very fast with the added RTX3060/6GB:

  Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX with Radeon Graphics (16 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
  RAM:         32GB
  GPU:         NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU with 6GB for processing

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  Carl Traub

  • June 22, 2023 03:18

  Sascha,

  I don't have any experience with the AMD mobile processors, but I've been following AMD closely. I've been using the AMD desktop APUs for quite a while. The 780M is .5 GHz faster and based on the newer RDNA3 compared to the 680M, which is based on the RDNA2 architecture. Given a choice, the 780M offers a bit more punch.

  I haven't seen much in the way of comparison of those vs the 1660.  Googling "780M vs 1660" tonight produces results that indicates that the 1660 could be 3 times as fast as the 780M, but that's the extent of my research. It seems like a dedicated chip will be a much better choice if it's in your budget. VRAM used by dedicated GPUs is also much faster than DRAM.

  Rumors of the 8000 series mobile processors indicate that they could be equipped with much stronger GPUs, but they are likely at least a year away.

  Also keep in mind that a processor just 'good enough' for PR 2023 may stumble in a year or two as the program becomes more compute intensive. I don't think any version of PR has become faster than it's predecessor.

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