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Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#11

Post by mromanuk »

fit2rule wrote: post #6

IF someone comes out with a unibody laptop with a Ryzen in it, I'm fully in. It'll easily replace my current macBook fleet.. (nb: eyes the GPD Pocket and its revisions..)

I’ve bought a Ryzen 5 for a home server, but sadly is awfully unstable. Apparently there is a bug in the Ryzen family. I’m using it with Freenas 11 (FreeBSD) and the system is having horrible random freezes with black screen. There are some threads talking about same issues, this make me lose faith in AMD, and going back to Intel.

Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#12

Post by terminalcommand »

mromanuk wrote: post #11
fit2rule wrote: post #6

IF someone comes out with a unibody laptop with a Ryzen in it, I'm fully in. It'll easily replace my current macBook fleet.. (nb: eyes the GPD Pocket and its revisions..)

I’ve bought a Ryzen 5 for a home server, but sadly is awfully unstable. Apparently there is a bug in the Ryzen family. I’m using it with Freenas 11 (FreeBSD) and the system is having horrible random freezes with black screen. There are some threads talking about same issues, this make me lose faith in AMD, and going back to Intel.

Have you tried disabling SMT? And have you tried installing the latest microcode update? AMD has been having problems for a while, but I think they ought to have been fixed by now.

I, myself was thinking to acquire a Ryzen 5 1600 for a high performance programming desktop. I was thinking of running FreeBSD, it's sad to hear that it's glitchy.

Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#13

Post by agumonkey »

nik736 wrote: post #3

The integrated graphics unit of those is apparently 2-3x as good as the Intel equivalent in some benchmarks[0]. Sounds very promising overall. [0]: https://heise.cloudimg.io/bound/2300x1400/tjpeg.q90.webp-los...

zen core + strong gpu would make a brilliant laptop chip

Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#15

Post by quickben »

mromanuk wrote: post #11
fit2rule wrote: post #6

IF someone comes out with a unibody laptop with a Ryzen in it, I'm fully in. It'll easily replace my current macBook fleet.. (nb: eyes the GPD Pocket and its revisions..)

I’ve bought a Ryzen 5 for a home server, but sadly is awfully unstable. Apparently there is a bug in the Ryzen family. I’m using it with Freenas 11 (FreeBSD) and the system is having horrible random freezes with black screen. There are some threads talking about same issues, this make me lose faith in AMD, and going back to Intel.

Would it be possible it's a motherboard issue? I went through two mbs until I got a stable one. 1700x here.

Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#16

Post by loeg »

zanny wrote: post #8
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #5

How are the Linux Radeon drivers these days. Last time I tried (8 years ago) they were awful compared to the NVidia equivalent. But now that I might be able to get a 3 pound ultrabook with decent graphics, I'm willing to put up with a lot more inconvenience .

Linux AMD open source drivers are top notch now. Even have really good foss OpenCL support. The only asterisk right now is that you only want to use these new APUs / any Vega GPU on distros running kernel 4.15 or later (which will release probably Jan of next year).

Trivial feature: the Ryzen CPU temperature sensor feature is coming in 4.15 as well.

Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#17

Post by loeg »

mromanuk wrote: post #11
fit2rule wrote: post #6

IF someone comes out with a unibody laptop with a Ryzen in it, I'm fully in. It'll easily replace my current macBook fleet.. (nb: eyes the GPD Pocket and its revisions..)

I’ve bought a Ryzen 5 for a home server, but sadly is awfully unstable. Apparently there is a bug in the Ryzen family. I’m using it with Freenas 11 (FreeBSD) and the system is having horrible random freezes with black screen. There are some threads talking about same issues, this make me lose faith in AMD, and going back to Intel.

Is it the known segfault defect affecting CPUs made before June? If so, return or RMA your chip.

Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#18

Post by jagger27 »

agumonkey wrote: post #13
nik736 wrote: post #3

The integrated graphics unit of those is apparently 2-3x as good as the Intel equivalent in some benchmarks[0]. Sounds very promising overall. [0]: https://heise.cloudimg.io/bound/2300x1400/tjpeg.q90.webp-los...

zen core + strong gpu would make a brilliant laptop chip

Is the 15W TDP number for the whole package or just the CPU?

Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#19

Post by loeg »

terminalcommand wrote: post #12
mromanuk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve bought a Ryzen 5 for a home server, but sadly is awfully unstable. Apparently there is a bug in the Ryzen family. I’m using it with Freenas 11 (FreeBSD) and the system is having horrible random freezes with black screen. There are some threads talking about same issues, this make me lose faith in AMD, and going back to Intel.

Have you tried disabling SMT? And have you tried installing the latest microcode update? AMD has been having problems for a while, but I think they ought to have been fixed by now. I, myself was thinking to acquire a Ryzen 5 1600 for a high performance programming desktop. I was thinking of running FreeBSD, it's sad to hear that it's glitchy.

FreeBSD works great on Ryzen. I'm running it on a 1950x, no issues at all.

Re: AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops

#20

Post by jagger27 »

mromanuk wrote: post #11
fit2rule wrote: post #6

IF someone comes out with a unibody laptop with a Ryzen in it, I'm fully in. It'll easily replace my current macBook fleet.. (nb: eyes the GPD Pocket and its revisions..)

I’ve bought a Ryzen 5 for a home server, but sadly is awfully unstable. Apparently there is a bug in the Ryzen family. I’m using it with Freenas 11 (FreeBSD) and the system is having horrible random freezes with black screen. There are some threads talking about same issues, this make me lose faith in AMD, and going back to Intel.

"Never buy first gen" is always and always has been sage advice. I'm planning to upgrade my 3570K build at the next revision.
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