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00:47 what is AMD Phoenix?, 1:47 AMD 5700G, 4:17 AMD 6500 XT, 6:11 what is NVENC?, 8:24 other purposes for the APU, 11:08 what I would like to see with the APU’s, 14:43 AM5, 17:05 what I would like to see from the motherboards, 20:37 I want to see more ITX and M-ATX in the future

I did my best to share my thoughts from a perspective as a former builder, and current video gamer

TLDR:

AMD Phoenix is supposedly the upcoming APU family. They apparently have an integrated graphics performance similar to the 6500 XT

APU's are great because it gives you additional ways to diagnose your PC. I mentioned the JayzTwoCents video where he was trouble shooting a video card as an example

I thought AMD made a huge mistake by only allowing a 65 watt TDP with the previous APU the 5700G. It is clear in benchmarks it was not competitive with the dedicated processor counter part the 5800X

Power efficiency shouldn't be a thing for desktops especially ones used for gaming. If AMD wants a power efficient APU then make one specific to that

NVENC is an encoder specific to Nvidia video cards (for Streaming). NVENC is a dedicated chip on later generation RTX video cards. That NVENC chip is preset to 1080p. Meaning if you go up or down on the resolution, turn on psycho tuning or the likes.. It will use the GPU itself. That presents a problem because most video games are video card intensive. Control is the only game that comes to mind that uses a lot of processor

I brought that up to say that AMD has an opportunity here.. To create their own custom encoder with the APU's. Perhaps one more efficient to 720p or 480p Streaming. Or one that is higher quality

AM5 is supposedly DDR5 RAM only. I think that is a mistake as well. Assuming their A520, B550, and X570 motherboard line up continues to AM5: They should make the A620 the DDR4 RAM budget motherboard. B650 and X650 should be DDR5

My reason for saying that is because AMD has at a few points been the budget alternative to Intel. They provided great performance for the cost. I think they should continue doing that

I want future platforms to have ITX and M-ATX more common. These are easier on the shipping costs than ATX. Also most gamers and Streamers shouldn't need more than 1 video card, 1 SSD. x1 slots can be worked around for Streaming by using a USB capture card rather than an internal one

https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-radeon-rx-6500-xt-review-benchmarks/

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-5700g-review

Edit: After this recording was posted, I realized Phoenix is the laptop APU. I only realized this after seeing the AMD Roadmap which didn't release until sometime after. A lot of what I said still applies though