AMD Ryzen 3 7320U Surfaces, Possibly the "Mendocino" SoC

[btarunr]

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.



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[Tomorrow]

Why AMD? Why are you again screwing up the naming scheme?
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.

 

[Bwaze]

Also:

"Intel Celeron processors based on Mendocino core were released in 1998."

 

[TheLostSwede]

Why AMD? Why are you again screwing up the naming scheme?
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.

Has AMD announced the naming of Zen 4?

 

[Tomorrow]

Has AMD announced the naming of Zen 4?

So you believe Zen 4 will be 8000 series?

 

[TheLostSwede]

So you believe Zen 4 will be 8000 series?

I don't make assumptions, that's all.
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.

 

[Mysteoa]

Why AMD? Why are you again screwing up the naming scheme?
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.

It's not like they want to do it, it's just how the market dictates stuff. If they name it something other than 7000 series, the regular consumer will think it is old or get confused and not buy it. From the other side, maybe zen2 core is more cheap or efficient for low-end parts than with zen 3/4.

 

[Tomorrow]

It's not like they want to do it, it's just how the market dictates stuff. If they name it something other than 7000 series, the regular consumer will think it is old or get confused and not buy it. From the other side, maybe zen2 core is more cheap or efficient for low-end parts than with zen 3/4.

But it IS old. Based on Zen 2. It could have easily been placed in the 6000 series mobile parts. The mobile parts are already ahead in numbering compared to desktop parts. Putting this on in 7000 series just muddies the waters even more because if Zen 4 is 7000 series then that's confusing and if it's 8000 series then we will quickly reach 5 digit numbering that Intel has had to deal with and it's a mess there too.

 

[Mysteoa]

But it IS old. Based on Zen 2. It could have easily been placed in the 6000 series mobile parts. The mobile parts are already ahead in numbering compared to desktop parts. Putting this on in 7000 series just muddies the waters even more because if Zen 4 is 7000 series then that's confusing and if it's 8000 series then we will quickly reach 5 digit numbering that Intel has had to deal with and it's a mess there too.

It only muddles the water for people that know, the rest don't care. No regular consumer that will buy a cheap laptop cares about what laptop cpu they will get, they just care if it is a new higher number. For them, zen2 power will be enough.

 

[LabRat 891]

Can't say I'm pleased with the consumer confusion caused by mixed-architecture market-generations; but the models are typically properly positioned, as far as relative performance.
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.

 

[minami]

AMD does not have a 4 core CCX ZEN3.
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.

 

[Rev_Pizzaguy]

Picked up a super cheap Acer A315-24P with the Ryzen 3 7320U for the heck of it. Biggest issue is the 4x PCIE3.0 lanes. It forces the NVMe SSD to only x2 so that the WiFi card can at least get x1.

The CPU itself isn't bad, but the Radeon 610M is very weak.

 

[sLowEnd]

Picked up a super cheap Acer A315-24P with the Ryzen 3 7320U for the heck of it. Biggest issue is the 4x PCIE3.0 lanes. It forces the NVMe SSD to only x2 so that the WiFi card can at least get x1.

The CPU itself isn't bad, but the Radeon 610M is very weak.

Its feature set is still an improvement over older Vega graphics. AV1 decode is notable.