Next month, we will get to know the final details on AMD Ryzen mobile processors 5000 for laptops. We have known for a long time that the manufacturer is preparing two series of low-voltage APUs and one full-voltage series. I am talking about the Lucienne and Cezanne series. While Cezanne is based on Zen 3 cores, the Lucienne series was developed as a typical “Renoir Refresh”, based on the already known Zen 2 cores. With the difference that this time all upcoming processors support SMT, so we expect higher performance anyway, especially compared to units such as Ryzen 5 4500 U or Ryzen 7 4700AT. Laptop manufacturers are working faster on new and / or refreshed notebooks this time, so we expect better availability of devices in the first months from the January announcement.

Information about refreshed notebooks has been released to the network. ASUS VivoBook laptops 15, ASUS VivoBook 17 and ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 with AMD Ryzen 5 processors 5500 U and Ryzen 7 5700 U.

AMD Lucienne-U and Cezanne-U – specification of Zen 2 and Zen 3 processors

The Taiwanese manufacturer is about to present refreshed ASUS VivoBook laptop models 15, ASUS VivoBook 17 and ASUS VivoBook Flip 14. All three devices will be powered by AMD Lucienne-U 6-core processors and 12 – thread AMD Ryzen 5 5500 U and 8-core and 16 – threaded AMD Ryzen 7 5700 U. Thus, the lower-positioned devices also get a solid increase in efficiency. There is not much to count on a leap in single-threaded performance, but in applications using multithreading, we expect results better by at least a dozen percent.

Looking at the product cards that appeared on the web, the manufacturer does not intend to change the visual layer of VivoBook laptops. The devices will also be equipped with 8 or 16 GB of DDR4 RAM and SSDs with a capacity of 512 GB or 1 TB. For VivoBook 15 and VivoBook 17 we also expect average quality of IPS-like matrices with Full HD resolution and probably approx. 60% sRGB color coverage. In the case of the VivoBook Flip 14 we should get a better screen quality, additionally with touch support. Unfortunately, we did not know the prices, but we are talking about low-end laptops – the amounts should not exceed 3500 PLN.

Source: Notebookcheck