AMD’s long-awaited Ryzen 4000 mobile processors have finally arrived through the Consumer Electronics Show 2020. These chips are based on the 7nm Zen 2 architecture and are here to take on Intel’s 10nm Icelake laptop chips.
The Ryzen 4000 lineup will be divided into two different categories, the 15W Ryzen U series for the highly portable ultrabooks, and a 45W Ryzen H series for high-end professional and gaming laptops. The Ryzen 3, 5, and 7 naming scheme, however, will remain as it is.
The most powerful processor in the series, the Ryzen 7 4800U, is equipped with 8 cores, 16 threads, and eight Radeon graphics cores. It has a base clock speed of 1.8GHz and reaches up to 4.8Ghz on boost.
On the other hand, Intel’s top-end processor, the 10th gen Core i7-10710U, features six cores and is based on Intel’s much older integrated graphics, making it no match for the 4800U’s Radeon cores.
AMD CEO Lisa Su claims that the third-generation Ryzen 4000 series is twice as power-efficient compared to the second generation Ryzen processors. This is primarily due to the shift from 10nm to the 7nm process.
AMD also claims that it will power over a 100 laptops this year with the third-generation Ryzen 4000 CPUs. The first batch will arrive in Q1 2020 with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo laptops.
Specifications
| Model | Cores/ Threads | Watts | Boost / Base Frequency (GHz) | GPU Cores | L2 / L3 Cache (MB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 8C/16T | 45W | Up to 4.2 / 2.9 GHz | 7 | 12 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 4600H | 6C/12T | 45W | Up to 4.0 / 3.0 GHz | 6 | 11 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800U | 8C/16T | 15W | Up to 4.2 / 1.8 GHz | 8 | 12 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4700U | 8C/8T | 15W | Up to 4.1 / 2.0 GHz | 7 | 12 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 4600U | 6C/12T | 15W | Up to 4.0 / 2.1 GHz | 6 | 11 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 4500U | 6C/6T | 15W | Up to 4.0 / 2.3 GHz | 6 | 11 |
| AMD Ryzen 3 4300U | 4C/4T | 15W | Up to 3.7 / 2.7 GHz | 5 | 6 |
| AMD Athlon Gold 3150U | 2C/4T | 15W | Up to 3.3 / 2.4 GHz | 3 | 5 |
| AMD Athlon Silver 3050U | 2C/2T | 15W | Up to 3.2 / 2.3 GHz | 2 | 5 |
Great, at least Laptop will be provided with Radeon graphics, unlike Intel sh!ty graphic chips.
Great, AMD has been crushing Intel in all other categories but wasn’t able to in mobile processors specifically single thread performance and power efficiency was behind Intel’s.