ASUS and ACER will soon introduce their more sophisticated gaming laptops based on AMD’s Ryzen 5000H ‘Zen 3’ CPUs and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 GPUs, including RTX 3080 mobility. Reports come from various retail listings and technology stores Chinese, ITMedia (via Videocardz / HXL)
High-tech laptops ASUS ROG STRIX and ACER Nitro 5 for gaming with AMD Ryzen 5000H ‘Zen 3’ and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 mobility GPUs leak
We know that AMD and NVIDIA will present their respective mobility CPU / GPU lines at CES 2021. As such, their OEM partners, which include ASUS and ACER, will also present state-of-the-art designs that will present the new product stack. ASUS is already working on a variety of laptops within its ROG line, while ACER will be offering the top of the line Nitro series with Zen 3 and Ampere action!
ASUS ROG STRIX laptops with AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8-core CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU
The ASUS ROG STRIX 2021 line will feature AMD CPUs as high as Ryzen 9 5900HX. There will also be laptops with other Ryzen 9 5900H and Ryzen 7 5800H CPUs, but this is the most high-end configuration you can use. Coming to specifications, the laptop will rock the Ryzen 9 5900HX, which is a new Zen 3 core that we saw in the Ryzen 5000 desktop line and as such, we can expect some huge gains in the performance of the single-thread processor.
In terms of specifications, the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX will offer 8 cores and 16 threads. The chip will have 16 MB of L3 cache and 4 MB of L2 cache. The base clock for the chip is rated at 3.30 GHz and the clock boost is rated at 4.70 GHz. A detailed record of the benchmark execution shows that all cores reached 4.70 GHz during the test. Other features of the chip include an enhanced Vega GPU and also support for overclocking, which would be the first time for AMD in the notebook segment.
The graphics side will include NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 mobility video card. This card is based on the GA104 GPU and although the exact configuration remains unknown, we know that the chip will have up to 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, while the standard configurations will adopt 8 GB GDDR6 memory. ROG STRIX laptops can also be configured with RTX 3060 and 3070 GPUs. A list of other specifications is also listed, such as up to 32 GB of DDR4 memory and 1 TB of storage (SSD).
ASUS ROG STRIX laptops with AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs will come in 15 and 17 inch variants with a screen resolution of up to 1440p and support a 165 Hz refresh rate. The addition of RTX 3080 caliber GPUs means that running games on mentioned resolution will be no problem. ASUS will also launch the same laptops in Intel and NVIDIA configurations with 10th Generation Comet Lake-H CPUs, while an upgrade to Tiger Lake-H is expected in mid-2021. This will give AMD the edge in the high-performance notebook space for quite a while, as Intel will still depend on its older 14nm architecture to compete with AMD’s 2nd generation 7nm CPUs and will not have the same performance efficiency.
ACER Nitro 5 laptops with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 8 Core CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU
Moving on to the ACER Nitro series, the ACER Nitro 5 was recently listed by a German retailer for a price of 1950 euros. The configuration included an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H CPU, a discrete NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, 32 GB DDR4 memory and 1 TB of SSD storage. The laptop will have the 8 GB RTX 3080.
Other listed specifications include a 180W power supply that can indicate that this particular model is running the NVIDIA Max-Q configuration and not the Max-P that offers higher clocks, allowing for more performance. This is because the CPU alone has a 45W base TDP with the graphics chip revolving around a 100-120W TDP.
Expect ASUS and ACER to unveil their next generation laptops in the coming weeks when CES is officially launched.
AMD Ryzen 5000 APU alignment (preliminary specifications):
| APU Name | APU Family | Architecture | Process | Colors / Threads | Base Clock | Boost Clock | L3 cache | Graphics | GPU Clock | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 9 5900HX | Cezanne H | Zen 3 | 7nm | 8/16 | 3.30 GHz | 4.70 GHz | 16 MB | 8 UCs (512 SP) | TBD | 35-45W |
| Ryzen 9 5900H | Cezanne H | Zen 3 | 7nm | 8/16 | 3.30 GHz | 4.65 GHz | 16 MB | 8 UCs (512 SP) | TBD | 35-45W |
| Ryzen 7 5800H | Cezanne H | Zen 3 | 7nm | 8/16 | 3.20 GHz | TBD | 16 MB | 8 UCs (512 SP) | ~ 2000 MHz | 35-45W |
| Ryzen 9 5900HS | Cezanne H | Zen 3 | 7nm | 8/16 | 3.10 GHz | 4.50 GHz | 16 MB | TBD | TBD | 35-45W |
| Ryzen 5 5600H | Cezanne H | Zen 3 | 7nm | 6/12 | 3.10 GHz | 4.10 GHz | 8 MB | TBD | TBD | 35-45W |
| Ryzen 7 5800U | Cezanne U | Zen 3 | 7nm | 8/16 | 2.00 GHz | 4.40 GHz | 16 MB | 8 UCs (512 SP) | 2000 MHz | 10-25W |
| Ryzen 7 5700U | Lucienne U | Zen 2 | 7nm | 8/16 | 1.80 GHz | 4.30 GHz | 8 MB | 8 UCs (512 SP) | 1900 MHz | 10-25W |
| Ryzen 5 5600U | Cezanne U | Zen 3 | 7nm | 6/12 | 2.30 GHz | 4.30 GHz | 12 MB | 7 UCs (448 SP) | 1800 MHz | 10-25W |
| Ryzen 5 5500U | Lucienne U | Zen 2 | 7nm | 6/12 | 2.10 GHz | 4.00 GHz | 8 MB | 7 UCs (448 SP) | 1800 MHz | 10-25W |
| Ryzen 3 5400U | Cezanne U | Zen 3 | 7nm | 4/8 | 2.60 GHz | 4.00 GHz | 8 MB | 6 UCs (384 SP) | 1600 MHz | 10-25W |
| Ryzen 3 5300U | Lucienne U | Zen 2 | 7nm | 4/8 | 2.60 GHz | 3.85 GHz | 4 MB | 6 CU (384 SP) | 1500 MHz | 10-25W |