First, let me get the caveat out of the way. YES, I know
AMD isn't the biggest segment of the laptop market, (yet.) I am still fairly convinced this has to do with availability of systems currently, as it is still kind of hard to find Ryzen 4000 laptops as of this writing. That said, however:
AMD is running circles around Intel CPUs now on their latest kit. hell even their 3300x outperforms an i7-7700k at $120. Unless OEM's stay away from it for some reason, we should expect to see SIGNIFICANT increase in AMD laptops in the market coming up in the next quarter or two.
My question is this. Will arrogant Rekordbox devs continue to pretend that supporting AMD is a fools errand, or will we maybe finally start considering testing to support RB6> on AMD platforms? Do the pleas of past and potential consumers matter? Is it SO hard to really see the winds of change in the market and not limit the consumer base?
I'll start my reply the same way - "Yes, I know." Ever since the launch of the 2nd gen Zen processors, I've been asking the engineers to consider support.
Here's what I know about why it hasn't happened yet... it sucks for audio. It's not a consistent experience, just like programming for Android. Hopefully soon.
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I dont have any issues with a Ryzen 3700x desktop. What are the issues people talk about?
Audio hiccups, performance dropouts, crashing... but that was on older AMD series, I haven't had too many current-gen Zen users complaining.
I've been experiencing audio hiccups and audio dropouts with my Ryzen 7 4700U... Do you have any suggestions?? I've been hopeful but it looks like I'm going to have to return my current laptop and go with an Intel
Unfortunately the 4000-series isn't an exact port of the 3000 series into a mobile chip, so it's possible there are problems with that CPU, the chipset manager, or even the graphics adapter causing the audio dropouts.
First thing to try would be to increase the audio buffer size and ensure any unnecessary background tasks are disabled, also check that wifi is disabled.
How much RAM do you have in the computer?
I have 16 gb of ram and I've already played around with the buffer size; I wasn't able to resolve the issue. I have also turned off all wireless connections and closed all other programs. I've updated the BIOS as well and still nothing.....
It could also be the graphics adapter in use; make sure everything is updated and try to prioritize audio as much as possible. Unfortunately AMD CPUs may still have issues which we can't address.
@Fractured State
One thing you might try that helped me with <competing DVS software> is editing the shortcut so that the process only runs across one CCX module in the processor... So for example, 4700U I think is 8 core/16 thread on 2 ccx modules. So I would set it to only run on CPU(s) 0-7 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8). This way it doesn't run on 8-15 (9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16)
see this link for help on starting the program on specific logical CPU's
https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/47607-affinity-command-cmd.html
I hope this helps.
oh, damn, I didn't fully read up on Renoir CPU's before replying to that. It looks like the 4700U CPU cores are on a single CCX. Still, you could try using task manager to set the process affinity to run on maybe 2 cores, or on 4 cores, and see how that affects performance.