AMD’s Ryzen 7000 laptop computer CPU lineup is a bewildering patchwork of outdated and new

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A number of months in the past, AMD launched a brand new numbering system for its upcoming laptop computer processor refresh. The schema is, as we wrote on the time, concurrently much less and extra complicated than one which merely assigns a bigger quantity to a quicker product. It does make it potential to know precisely what’s within the processor you are utilizing, so long as you might have the useful decoder ring that tells you which of them quantity means what. But it surely’s additionally a approach for AMD to relabel as “new” a handful of older processors from years previous.

There are 5 totally different CPU collection that comprise the Ryzen 7000 lineup that AMD is asserting immediately. Beneath is the AMD-provided desk that tells you what components every collection makes use of, together with some extra context

The spec desk for every of the 5 subcategories of the Ryzen 7000 lineup. (credit score: AMD)

• Ryzen 7045 collection (“Dragon Vary”): For top-end gaming and workstation laptops, meant to be paired with a devoted GPU. Basically Ryzen 7000 desktop processors repackaged for laptops, like Intel’s HX collection.
• Ryzen 7040 collection (“Phoenix”): The one all-new chip within the lineup. A Zen four CPU mixed with an RDNA three built-in GPU and constructed on a 4nm course of, that is the flagship for premium thin-and-light laptops with out devoted GPUs.
• Ryzen 7035 collection (“Rembrandt-R”): Ryzen 6000 with a brand new title.
• Ryzen 7030 collection (“Barcelo-R”): Ryzen 5000 with a brand new title. Barcelo was technically launched in 2022, however for many intents and functions it was an identical to 2021’s “Cezanne” processors. These are the one CPUs within the lineup to incorporate an built-in GPU primarily based on the getting old Vega structure, and to help DDR4 and LPDDR4 as an alternative of DDR5 and LPDDR5.
• Ryzen 7020 collection (“Mendocino”): Already introduced and launched, these use the outdated Zen 2 CPU structure however in any other case are purpose-built from fashionable components on a contemporary manufacturing course of particularly for reasonable laptops.

The 7045 and 7040 collection are essentially the most important of the brand new bulletins. There are 4 of the 7045 CPUs, every similar to a distinct Ryzen 7000 desktop CPU: the 7645HX is a refactored 7600X, whereas the 7745HX, 7845HX, and 7945HX map roughly to the 7700X, 7900X, and 7950X. Every has the identical quantity of cache as its desktop counterpart, every helps the identical DDR5 reminiscence (notably not LPDDR5), and the identical primary built-in GPU.