2.5 Geeks: Ryzen 6000 Zen 3+ Deep Dive With AMD's Robert Hallock

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, March 17, 2022, 05:33 PM EDT

We recently had the opportunity to go live with AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock, to chat about the Ryzen 6000 series mobile processors and the intricacies of the laptop market. Our discussion, complete with some new revelations regarding the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, is posted below.

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Show Notes:
07:28 Introducing Robert Hallock
10:12 Zen3+ vs. Competitive Architectures
15:35 The Laptop Market Today
17:00 Specific Optimizations In Zen3+
19:50 The RDNA2-Based Radeon 680M
23:23 The iGPU And Content Creation Workloads
24:40 Viewer Question: Raven Ridge GPU Drivers
25:13 Maintaining CPU And GPU Core Counts
28:03 Discussing Platform Power Optimizations
33:26 AMD In Premium Thin-And-Lights
36:19 Viewer Question: Any Ryzen 6000 Tablets?
37:05 Viewer Question: Lenovo + Ryzen 6000?
40:00 How Did OEMs React To Ryzen 6000?
42:52 How’s Ryzen 6000 Yield?
44:45 Viewer Question: LPDDR5 Supply
45:32 The Ryzen 7 5800X3D And Overclocking
49:14 Make A 5950X With 3D V-Cache!
52:00 Viewer Question: Ryzen 6000 SFF PCs?
54:10 What Did Tech Media Miss With Ryzen 6000?
59:44 Viewer Question: Socket AM5 Lifespan?
01:01:01 AMD’s Strategy Regarding Accelerators
01:03:46 The Wrap Up

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com