Ryzen APU Thread

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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-...,5464.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-...,5464.html

It is also interesting that AMD uses heat-conducting paste instead of solder between its Raven Ridge dies and heat spreaders. However, with an average power dissipation of less than 100W, this cost-cutting measure is probably tolerable for everyday operation. Of course, we also ran a series of more demanding workloads to tax both processors. It comes as little surprise that we figured out how to get the 2400G to throttle. We weren't expecting, however, to get its Radeon Vega Graphics engine stuck that way.
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All of this wouldn’t really be worth writing about if it wasn’t for the fact that Ryzen keeps on throttling, even after the conditions that caused throttling in the first place are relaxed. A reboot is necessary to reset the chip's operating parameters. There’s no rhyme or reason to this, and AMD can't explain it.

The good news, however, is that both of AMD's new Ryzen processors can be cooled without any issues using the company's bundled Wraith Stealth cooler. We used a number of especially demanding workloads to push these chips as hard as possible. But that's above and beyond what they'll encounter outside of the lab.