AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop CPUs aim to steal Intel’s performance crown
After snatching the performance crown from Intel on the desktop, AMD officially opened up a second front in the war at CES 2020, with a series of Ryzen 4000 laptop CPUs that look to outperform Intel’s best and brightest.
“In 2020, we will be introducing the best laptop processor ever built,” said AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su during the unveil.
The company detailed no less than seven consumer Ryzen 4000 processors, based on its 7nm Zen 2 cores. The new CPUs will come in both 15 watt “U-class” ultra-low power versions in thin and light laptops and “H-class” 45-watt gaming and content creation laptops.
The Ryzen 7 4800U is the top-end low power version, packing 8-cores and 16-threads. It will hit boost clock of 4.2GHz and have a base clock of 1.8GHz. The chip will feature eight compute units in its
