AMD Hawk Point: first AMD Ryzen 8000 APUs named The list of upcoming Zen4 refresh SKUs for laptops is expanding. There was a leak recently featuring the flagship AMD Ryzen 8000 APU for laptops. The leak did not disclose the names of the processors, however, it is possible that we can make a reasonable guess […]
What’s so confusing about it? Isn’t the naming convention public info? So those that care about model numbers can look up what’s what - or am I missing something?
The issue is that it breaks the commonly accepted trend of bigger number better. You could have an 8520U get clapped by a 7540U for example, because even though the latter is newer, the former is Zen 4 to its Zen 2.
The 7540U is a 28W Zen 4 part. If the 8520U exists it will be a 15W Zen 2 part.
At the 15W and below TDP range performance won’t actually be as far apart as you would think, you can see this with steam deck vs rog ally performance at 15W or lower TDPs.
The way to think about it is that there is the 20, 30, 40, and 50 series with bigger being better and within each series you have the model year (7/8/9 etc) and the tier of each part in the series.
For example, which TV is better. S95B or the S90C or the QN95C or the S95C?
Bigger problem than any that has been mentioned is that there is now 45 series that is desktop cpus on laptops. So I really hope they will stick to HX being just for that category or it will be a mess. :p
A 12900K also beats a 13400f
You have former and latter mixed up
Fixed!
Absolutely completely irrelevant!
Show me a laptop line with these both in them. They are for completely different type of products.
You buy laptops, not laptop cpus. If you are looking for something to game on, you will not even see laptops with mendocino on them.
They had to change the system as they now have multiple different types of cpus instead of one they had different numbers of cores for.