AMD's Mendocino APU Specs Leak - It isn't the Steam Deck competitor we wanted

[WYP]

No, this chip will not compete with Valve's custom Steam Deck SOC.



Read more about AMD's leaked Mendocino specifications.

 

[meuvoy]

I'm really not very familiar with AMD's mobile APU specs but I still think this should be better at gaming than a 5700U? That would mean cheapo laptops would be capable of playing older games? I mean, if I can play Bioshock Infinite @1080p 60fps I might just pull the trigger on my first laptop ever.

 

[ET3D]

The really big surprise here is "2-pipe FPU", which suggests something like Bulldozer.

I'm really not very familiar with AMD's mobile APU specs but I still think this should be better at gaming than a 5700U?

No, it would be much worse. The 5700U has 8 CUs, and while they use the Vega architecture, which is weaker than RDNA 2, 2 CUs in Mendocino would at most equal 3 CUs of Vega.

 

[meuvoy]

The really big surprise here is "2-pipe FPU", which suggests something like Bulldozer.



No, it would be much worse. The 5700U has 8 CUs, and while they use the Vega architecture, which is weaker than RDNA 2, 2 CUs in Mendocino would at most equal 3 CUs of Vega.

... Then this will basically be the equivalent of the modern Intel Celeron/Pentium CPUs a hard pass by default.

 

[demonking]

I still have hopes, it shows in the screen shot "scalable, Athlon to Ryzen 5"
We will most likely see bigger on some Ryzen 5's and 7's
All the new desktop variants are rumored to have RDNA chips so i expect AMD will bring out a "gaming" chip