AMD Ryzen 3 7230U Mendocino APU appears in alleged benchmarks
AMD’s upcoming Mendocino APUs are built for budget laptops, so the low benchmarks scores seen in a recent leak are to be expected.
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Benchmarks have appeared for an AMD Ryzen 3 7320U processor (viaUserBenchmark). The APU is part of AMD’s lineup known as Mendocino, which was unveiled earlier this year. The benchmarks show a respectable score for single-core computing and lighter everyday use. The processor’s graphics score is rather low, but that’s to be expected from this particular APU.
AMD’s Mendocino APUs are built with thebest budget laptopsin mind. The chips will power notebooks ranging from $399 to $699. When the companyannounced the processors at Computex 2022, it highlighted the fact that PCs with Mendocino APUs should get over 10 hours of battery life. These claims will have to be tested with review devices of course. In contrast, many budget laptops get between four and six hours of battery life.
The new APUs are built with TSMC’s 6nm process. They utilize AMD’s Zen 2 microarchitecture and feature RDNA 2 technology for graphics. The latter of those allows the processors to support more video encoding and decoding. This is a similar approach to what’s seen in the Van Gogh APU of theSteam Deck, though the processors aim to fill different segments.
UserBenchmark explains how its scores are calculated and what they mean on itswebsite. The long in short is that AMD’s Ryzen 3 7320U looks solid for its price range, at least based on these scores.
With that context in mind, any benchmarks that rate the Ryzen 3 7320U for gaming seem a bit unnecessary, though they do provide some comparison to other chips.Neowinnoted that the 5.63% graphics performance is better than that of AMD’s Vega 3 iGPU (4.5%).
AMD expects to launch its new APUs in the fourth quarter of 2022.
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