These All New Budget RDNA2 Mendocino APUs Are Actually Good! Hands On

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AMD Mendocino Ryzen RDNA2 APUs are here and in this video we see just how well the Ryzen 3 7320U handles gaming and Emulation, Spoiler Alert Emulation on the Mendocino APUs is amazing! it handles Gamecube, Wii, WiiU, PS2, PS3, and even Nintendo Switch!
This is the first budget laptop powered by the Ryzen 3 7320U but we will see these Mendocino APUS in handhelds and more laptops
Acer Aspire 3 A315-24P-R75B Slim Laptop | 15.6" Full HD IPS Display | AMD Ryzen 3 7320U

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00:00 Introduction
00:15 Overview
00:56 Video Sponsor Ad Spot
02:01 Ryzen 7000 Laptop Specs
03:57 Ryzen 3 7320U TDP and Clocks
05:46 Forza Horizon 5 AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
06:53 Benchmarks AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
07:19 Skyrim AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
07:40 Street Fighter 5 AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
07:59 The Witcher 3 AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
08:27 GTA5 AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
08:54 Gamecube and Wii Emulation AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
09:43 PS2 Emulation AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
10:20 Wii U EMulation AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
10:52 THIS Switch Emulation AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
11:14 PS3 Emulation AMD Mendocino Ryzen 3 7320U
11:58 First Impressions

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[ETAPRIME]

Overall is something you’d want to see in inexpensive handhelds?

[kirbylouise]

When I was in high school and they started making us use Chromebooks, this was the chip I wish I had. 600M series shreds emulation

[NoToeLong]

Something to keep in mind is that LPDDR is only 32bit, while normal DDR is 64bit, so machines with LPDDR only have half the bandwidth of ones with DDR at the same clocks. AMD's chips support dual channel DDR and quad channel LPDDR to compensate, but few laptops go higher than dual.

[zaidlacksalastname]

Emulation is where this kind of apu shines. This will boost the low end tremendously, because cheap laptops everyone has will be able to do wii u and yuzu well. For a dedicated gaming handheld though, it'd need to be really well priced (like sub 300). Imagine switch emulation on a switch priced pc.

[alejandrocuevas]

I love the fact that you test both PC and emulation games, especially the racing games since frames come on screen very quickly in those types of games!
Really helps us understand before we buy, especially those on a budget 👍

[plkh]

10:36 did you used 1080p graphic pack or stock resolution (720p)?

[santinojoshuatorre]

Ohhhh yeahh... i've been waiting for this since they announced Mendocino and was looking out for videos when I saw this particular model pop up on sale a couple of days ago.

[TomaszStachewicz]

At 2 RDNA2 CUs it actually performs surprisingly good. Remember that Steam Deck's APU has 8 CUs and Ryzen 6800U has 12 CUs.

[scottboehmer]

I'm curious about whether FSR and the like would work with this and, if yes, what sort of difference that would make. It might just make some of those PC games more playable.

[kenzieduckmoo]

this laptop probably wont be that great, but the upcoming handhelds will probably be more correctly specced to take advantage of them. possibly when the 7000 series APUs actually release, and its not just running on the base 2 CUs thats on the normal laptop chip. Would love to see how well it runs on SteamOS though, which is likely a natural fit for something like this, since all the games want to run at 720-800 resolution

[ergindemir]

@ETA PRIME You should add Youtube playback to your tests, in particular 4K60fps and 8K30fps and report the frame rate. You may want to test it with an external 4K display.

[pweddy]

The performance your getting for *2 CUs* is AMAZING!

Like to see this compared to some low end Vega iGPUs.

[chromerims]

How did I miss this earlier? Holy cow.
Incredible chip.
Thx Prime 👍

[diegognoatto]

i watched ultill the non-user upgradable part, mini pc's are going to take over this market

[Charsept]

The power!?
Finally APUs can run most of my gaming favorites. Can't wait for the higher end models.

[thejoyghost]

what a time to be alive for us emulation gamers this and those handhelds for under 300 we can have the ultimate handeld even playing some of those older steam games. i give it 2-3 years until we are doing full on handeld PS3 that would be amazing

[dadgamer]

Very exciting! Would be great to see if 16gb version can improve things as well as run more. SteamOS interesting as maybe less overhead than windows?

[noname-vvvr]

the real crazy thing about this is that it is running on 10-21 watts! that's less than 10% of modern gpu's power consumption and you have cpu and other stuff running in PC too. great efficiency from AMD

[Fleur_de_lisk]

Surpricing performance, great video as always!

[shanez]

I really dislike their new naming scheme for these chips. Why is the CPU architecture (which is the biggest factor in determining single core performance besides TDP) the 3rd digit?

On the other hand, it is nice that each digit tells us something useful, unlike every other freaking mobile naming scheme. And I'm not sure how else they'd carry Zen2 cores forward (since you're probably gonna be GPU bottlenecked, so why spend more for Zen3)

However I do really like them pairing Zen 2 with this new iGPU for a gaming targeted configuration. Since Zen 2 quad cores are already quite capable of daily tasks, so being able to save on the CPU in exchange for the iGPU is a great trade vs before. And it is nice that they have a digit dedicated to the architecture instead of what they did with the original 5000 series that weirdly isn't on their site anymore (5500U is Zen2, 5600U is Zen3)

It's just a bit weird that the R5 7520U is a 4C8T Zen2 chip with 2 GPU cores while the R5 5625U is a 6C12T Zen3 chip with 7 GPU cores. Even if the former is better in gaming on the iGPU side (I think, 2 RDNA2 might be weaker than 7 VEGA) but weaker in gaming when paired with a dGPU. Although in my experience they don't pair U chips with dGPU so I guess that's not a huge issue.

Going forward this will theoretically be simpler, but the problem is AMD's supply issues have meant that we have brand new laptops being sold with 5000 and 6000 series chips.