In a few weeks, AMD will present a new generation of APU processors for laptops. This year, the manufacturer introduced a third series called Renoir, which is equipped with up to eight Zen 2 cores. Next year, the company will launch its assault with Cezanne-U and Cezanne-H chips, which will also use up to 8 cores. This time, however, they will be greatly improved Zen 3 cores with much higher single-threaded performance. The Cezanne series is just the beginning, because we have learned more details about the APU laptop premiere schedule for the years 2021 – 2022. We learned that the manufacturer plans at least several different series of processors depending on the destination and energy budget. We have also obtained confirmation that the first mobile APU with the RDNA 2 graphics chip will go to laptops next year.

We got to know the detailed publishing plan of AMD Ryzen APUs for laptops for years 2021 – 2022. The company is working on the series Cezanne, Lucienne, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Barcelo, DragonCrest and Pollock.

In the next two years, AMD intends to introduce APU processors with the following TDP factors (for laptops): 45 W, 35 W (special variants of normal 45 W), 15 W, 9 W and 4.5 W. A total of 4 APU series for notebooks are planned for next year: Cezanne-H (45 W, 35 W), Cezanne-U (15, Lucienne-U (15 W), Van Gogh (9 W) and Pollock ( 4.5 W). Only Cezanne processors next year will use the new Zen 3 cores, while only Van Gogh will offer an integrated graphics chip based on the RDNA 2 architecture. In all other cases it will be the well-known and polished Vega.

Family APU	2021 year	2022 year
TDP 45 W (35 W)	Cezanne-H Zen Cores 3 + iGPU Vega Max. 8 cores DDR4 3200 MHz 7 nm TSMC	Rembrandt-H Zen 3+ Cores, iGPU RDNA 2 DDR5, LPDDR5 6 nm TSMC
TDP 15 In	Cezanne-U Zen Cores 3 + iGPU Vega Max. 8 cores DDR4 3200 MHz, LPDDR4x 4266 MHz 7 nm TSMC	Rembrandt-U Zen Cores 3+, iGPU RDNA 2 DDR5, LPDDR5 6 nm TSMC
TDP 15 W	Lucienne-U Zen 2 Cores + iGPU Vega Max. 8 cores DDR4 3200 MHz, LPDDR4x 4266 MHz 7 nm TSMC	Barcelo-U Zen Cores 3 + iGPU Vega DDR4 3200 MHz, LPDDR4x 4266 MHz 7 nm TSMC
TDP 9 W	Van Gogh Zen Cores 2 + iGPU RDNA 2 LPDDR5 7 nm TSMC	DragonCrest Zen 2 + iGPU RDNA 2 cores LPDDR5 7 nm TSMC
TDP 4.5 W	Pollock Cores Zen + iGPU Vega 14 nm	Pollock Zen + iGPU Vega cores 14 nm

As you can see, Van Gogh APU in addition to RDNA graphics chips 2 will also introduce support for LPDDR5 memory, most likely 5400 MHz. Scheduled APUs for the 2022 year will be even more varied. The main family of Rembrandt-H and Rembrandt-U will use the improved Zen 3+ cores in TSMC 6nm lithography. Here, too, the Vega architecture will be abandoned in favor of RDNA 2. There will also be support for DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory. In 2022, the Barcelo-U series will also be introduced alongside Rembrandt-U, replacing Lucienne-U. Barcelo will be based on Zen 3 cores and Vega graphics chips – thus the differences between Barcelo and Rembrandt will be even greater than between Cezanne and Lucienne. Barcelo will also use 7 nm lithography, not 6 nm. The Van Gogh family in 2022 will in turn be replaced by the DragonCrest APU, which will basically only be a minor improvement over Van Gogh . These processors will have a lower TDP of 9 W. For the next 2 years, the 4.5 W chips will be dominated only by Pollock in lithography 14 nm.

Source: VideoCardz