Didn't kit-guru say that the ryzen master sware was consuming 20% ? Also are these apus going to get a 12nm refresh? and is there going to be a 2600 , I hope so as that would surely suit me.
Lots of fun to be had probing the best combo of CPU oclock vs GPU oclock .. would be good if you could have multiple settings you could load at boot. An other strange point the TDP on these is configurable down to 45w , which is barely above the stated TDP of the e parts 2200ge. I shall wait to see what Ry-zen 2 shows up and mem prices to plummet.
Raven ridge is ALREADY 12nm (14nm+) there is a reason why AMD did not release as quickly as they should have (a few months ago) they pushed the Zen APU for the 12nm refresh...as far as 2600 or whatever other parts that are due out late march early april, ONLY AMD knows this currently, the "true" Ryzen generation 2, not Ryzen+ on 12nm, will be out towards end of 2018 on 7nm, this has not changed for many many many months now, if it did, AMD would have released updated slides, they did not, the 12nm "refresh" was unexpected, IMO it will allow them to fine tune on 12nm incorporate design changes etc in preparation for whatever they plan on doing for Zen 2 on 7nm, x470 motherboard etc for 12nm, likely there will also be x570 motherboards for the 7nm generation.
As far as TDP being adjustable, one needs to keep in mind the "APU" shares the TDP/Wattage with the cpu as well as the graphics core, so if you try to reduce it too much, performance is likely to suffer significantly as a result (though temps actual power usage will drop a massive amount as well once you fine tune it) the "E" parts are already "tuned" at least roughly at a reduction in clock speed so they also have a similar reduction in TDP (I personally wish they would get rid of the TDP number 9/10 everyone is not referencing it properly including the people that make the products, TDP is the cooling required to keep it at operational temperature, not the power that will be used, so in some cases it uses a chunk LESS power and in many other cases will use MUCH higher.
I also wish that AMD gave the full pci-e bus link to thh 2200 and 2400 chips, limiting to a 8x link not so bad, unless you want to not use the built in graphics and you try to feed a higher end graphics card (when pricing is worth doing so) performance that should be there absolutely suffers because of it (I take a wild guess and would think somewhere in the ~20% range when trying to feed the graphics card on graphics heavy load for discrete gpu usage)
For the more budget/mainstream level dedicated cards likely there will also be a loss, but, most folks should not be trying to run a high spec 1080p/1440p on a budget graphics card anyways, so the "load" will shift more to the cpu side anyways, and Ryzen seems overall to do quite decently at pretty much any cpu loaded things, provided you feed it some decent speed DDR4 with lower latency, say 2800-3200 CL14-16...they really do thrive on fast memory, much more so than Gen 1 Ryzen (Raven Ridge is Gen 1.5..Gen 2 is Ryzen 2 7nm)
Here is hoping that pricing on memory and graphics cards settle down by then, otherwise what should be a very solid price becomes very expensive for nothing.
2400g at a bit over $200 CAD is one thing, but a graphics card that should be costing at most $290 CAD routinely selling for $400+ (when you can find them) or Ram that should be costing $150 for 16gb 3200 class is at least $100 more, so much for DDR4 being far less costly to produce, is like DDR2 and DDR3 launch pricing all over again
