After more than a year on the market, AMD’s freshening its flock of Ryzen Mobile processors with a second-generation series. Join us as we take a peek at the company’s latest portable processors.
AMD’s minimal presence in the laptop market during the dark days of Bulldozer and its progeny is no secret to anyone who follows this stuff. The company made big step toward reversing its fortunes with the release of its Ryzen Mobile APUs at the end of 2017, though. In our test of the Ryzen 5 2500U, we called it « AMD’s best and most competitive mobile APU » ever. Now, AMD looks set to continue that trend onward and upward with its second-generation Ryzen Mobile APUs.
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The Ryzen 5 2500U and Ryzen 7 2700U were well-situated to handle the mainstream Windows laptop market, but this time around, AMD intends to offer something for users at almost every price point. Down at the bottom of the market, AMD is introducing a couple of chips for Chromebooks, which we’ll peek at in another article. On the higher end, AMD has some processors headed for gaming notebooks. The majority of the Ryzen Mobile chips are aimed at the general laptop-buying populace, though.
Eagle-eyed gerbils will no doubt have already noticed a number of interesting qualities in this chart, but let’s get the bad news out of the way first: No, these aren’t based on wonderfully revised Zen 2 processor cores, and they’re not fabbed on a 7-nm process.
