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00:20 summary, 4:51 thoughts – APU, 6:20 B650, 7:45 A series, 8:59 the wattage

It took me awhile to get around to this due to IRL issues but I decided to give you a summary anyways

Summary:

AMD's next gen APU family is called Dragon Range. It won't be showing up until 2023. For now, AMD is giving their word that all of the new Ryzen's will feature enough integrated graphics for diagnostic purposes

Apparently the 16 core is not the flagship according to a couple of the tech channels on Youtube. The flagship is 24 cores. The 16 core was achieving 5.5 GHZ not boosted or overclocked according to AMD. I doubt this one but we will see. If true though, then it is highly likely that the 6 and 8 core Ryzen's will achieve that much easier, or achieve a higher GHZ

AMD will have a different motherboard setup than last time. Previously it was an A, B, and X model. Now it is B650, X670, and X670E. The E is a promise that it will be for overclocking and have Gen 5 across the board. Non E is Gen 5 on the video card and storage is what I understood of it. B650 will only have Gen 5 on the storage. Gen 4 for video card

Thoughts:

If AMD couldn't do R&D on Dragon Range because of the shortage I understand. It would of been nice to see APU's though. I hope AMD continues to do APU's because some games don't require a dedicated video card but certainly more than some integrated graphics. Also AMD could make their own encoder unique to the APU just like Nvidia did (for Streaming)

I think the B650 will be the dominant motherboard. From what I have seen on other channels, video cards have yet to fully saturate Gen 4. I messed up and said 5 but I meant 4. Perhaps this will change with the new video cards this year. We will see

AMD not releasing A series is a mistake in my opinion. I think it could be released with DDR4 RAM. As it stands, all motherboards are DDR5. DDR5 is at the worse 100 USD more than DDR4 and gives very little performance gain. 2 FPS at best in gaming. Not worth it

170 watts may seem like a high number but apparently that is the boost or overclock wattage. That is not a big number when you look at 12th gen Intel which is consuming 230 watts. AMD is doing a good job with energy savings and providing alternative solutions

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/everything-you-need-to-know-about-socket-am5-and-x670/