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Rumor mill: Fans of Microsoft s Surface Laptop 3 who prefer AMD to Intel will be pleased to hear that team red s CPUs are no longer limited to the 15-inch model in the successor. According to reported Surface Laptop 4 specs, the 13.5-inch version will also offer processors from both Intel and AMD when it launches in April.
WinFuture (via Windows Central) published alleged details of the Surface Laptop 4. The specs show that both sizes can be configured with Intel s 11th-gen Tiger Lake chips (Core i5-1145G7, Core i7-1185G7) or AMD s 4000 Mobile Series CPUs ( Surface Edition Ryzen 5 4680U, Ryzen 7 4980U).
The new Ryzen 9 5900HX is bound to be widely used across high-end gaming laptops. While not the outright fastest processor in the lineup that award goes to the top-binned Ryzen 9 5980HX the 5900HX should be a better performer than the other Zen 3 APUs we’ve reviewed so far, namely the 5800H and 5980HS.
The R9 5900HX has a similar layout to other Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 APUs this generation: we’re getting 8 CPU cores and 16 threads, 16MB of L3 cache, plus 8 Vega GPU compute units unlocked, all within a 45W default TDP. The 5900HX features upgraded Zen 3 CPU cores, which means a single-CCX design, double the L3 cache and higher IPC, among other improvements.
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Introduction
AMD really wants you to buy a Ryzen-powered laptop this year. We know this because the key thrust of CEO Lisa Su s keynote was on the latest generation of 5000 Series Mobile chips which integrate up to eight Zen 3 CPU cores and established Vega graphics into what is effectively an accelerated processing unit (APU).
Building on the momentum of last year s Ryzen 4000 Series Mobile by encouraging all the big laptop makers to choose any number of 14 new chips, key to AMD s success is in getting the big boys to quickly release premium laptops imbued with its smarts. Though AMD expects around 150 design wins this year, one of the most intriguing is already in for review today. Say hello to the Asus ROG Flow X13.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested
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Since AMD’s introduction of its newest Zen 3 core for desktop users, the implementation for notebooks and mobile users has been eagerly awaited. In a single generation, on the same manufacturing process, AMD extracted +19% more performance per clock (we verified), so for any system that is power limited, extra performance is often very well received. AMD announced its new Ryzen 5000 Mobile processor family at the start of the year, with processors from 15W to 45W+ in the pipeline, and the first mobile systems coming to market in February. AMD sent us a peak example of Ryzen 5000 Mobile for today’s review, the 35W Ryzen 9 5980HS, as contained in the ASUS ROG Flow X13.