Tuesday, June 14th 2022
AMD Ryzen 3 7320U Surfaces, Possibly the "Mendocino" SoC
One of AMD's big announcements this fall has been its entry-level "Mendocino" Ryzen 3 mobile processor, which enables the company to compete with Intel's latest-generation Pentium Gold-powered notebooks by combining older-generation IP with the latest I/O and fabrication node. The chip has possibly surfaced on the UserBenchmark database, as the Ryzen 3 7320U processor.
Built on the TSMC N6 (6 nm) silicon fabrication process, the "Mendocino" chip features a 4-core/8-thread CPU based on the older "Zen 2" microarchitecture. This CPU is a single CCX with four "Zen 2" cores sharing a 4 MB L3 cache. It features an iGPU based on the latest RDNA2 graphics architecture, but with just two compute units (128 stream processors). The chip also features a single-channel DDR5 memory interface, and a PCI-Express Gen 3 interface with four PCIe 3.0 general-purpose lanes, besides some USB and display outputs.
Sources:
VideoCardz, TUM_APISAK
Built on the TSMC N6 (6 nm) silicon fabrication process, the "Mendocino" chip features a 4-core/8-thread CPU based on the older "Zen 2" microarchitecture. This CPU is a single CCX with four "Zen 2" cores sharing a 4 MB L3 cache. It features an iGPU based on the latest RDNA2 graphics architecture, but with just two compute units (128 stream processors). The chip also features a single-channel DDR5 memory interface, and a PCI-Express Gen 3 interface with four PCIe 3.0 general-purpose lanes, besides some USB and display outputs.
12 Comments on AMD Ryzen 3 7320U Surfaces, Possibly the "Mendocino" SoC
7000 series should only be Zen 4. Naming a low end Zen 2 part as 7320U is just stupid.
I hoped we were past this BS and 7000 series was only Zen 4. Dissapointed.
"Intel Celeron processors based on Mendocino core were released in 1998."
I honestly don't know and if I knew, I wouldn't be sharing it here, but I would be writing a news post about it.
That said, AMD has been known to play around with its model names last minute.
Funny enough, I recently made a $20 'mistake' due to Intel doing the opposite back in the Ivy Bridge era:
Bought an i5-3470T for my 1U 'router' to replace the i3-3220 that was barely staying cool enough. The i3-3220 w/ a higher TDP actually ran cooler and faster than the i5. Same archetecture, same generation, but misleading performance based on model naming conventions.
Ended up delidding and lapping the i3 instead to get temps down.
ZEN2 is probably the right choice for smaller builds.
Well, ZEN2 is good enough for me.
I want to retire my Gemini Lake Refresh tablet as soon as possible.
The CPU itself isn't bad, but the Radeon 610M is very weak.