The sparrows were already whistling it from the rooftops, now it’s official: AMD boss Lisa Su has the Ryzen at this year’s CES keynote – 5000 – Processors presented – exactly one year after the start of Ryzen – 4000 – Generation at the CES 2020. Back then, 7 nanometer manufacturing and eight Zen 2 cores gave AMD the lead in notebook processors. With Ryzen 5000 the change to Zen 3 and associated with it significantly increased cache sizes.

This combination has with the already available Ryzen – 5000 – processors for desktop PCs provided a further performance boost. This is also to be expected for notebooks, although independent benchmark results are still pending.

Core mix However, AMD is donating to the CPU portfolio confusion. The Ryzen 5000 U processors for flat notebooks (15-Watt -Class), the Zen 3 architecture (“Cezanne”) is not used in all models, but only in those whose model number has an even number in the second position: The Ryzen 7 5800 U is an eight-core, the Ryzen 5 5600 U a six-core, both with Zen-3 architecture. In the Ryzen 7 5700 U, Ryzen 5 5500 U and Ryzen 3 5300 U, however, have eight, six or four cores of the previous Zen-2 architecture (“Lucienne”).

AMD Ryzen 5000 for notebooks Model Cores / Threads (Core) TDP Base rate max.turbo clock L3 cache Ryzen 9 5980 HX 8th / 16 (Zen 3) 45 W + 3.3 GHz 4.8 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 9 5900 HX 8 / 16 (Zen 3) 45 W + 3.3 GHz 4.6 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 7 5800H 8th / 16 (Zen 3) 45 W 3.2 GHz 4.4 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 5 5600H 6 / 12 (Zen 3) 45 W 3.3 GHz 4.2 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 9 5900 HS 8th / 16 (Zen 3) 35 W 3.0 GHz 4.8 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 9 5900 HS 8th / 16 (Zen 3) 35 W 3.0 GHz 4.6 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 7 5800 HS 8 / 15 (Zen 3) 35 W 2.8 GHz 4.4 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 5 5600 HS 6 / 12 (Zen 3) 35 W 3.0 GHz 4.2 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 7 5800 U 8th / 16 (Zen 3) 15 W 1.9 GHz 4.4 GHz 16 Mbytes Ryzen 7 5700 U 8th / 16 (Zen 2) 15 W 1.8 GHz 4.3 GHz 8 MByte Ryzen 5 5600 U 6 / 12 (Zen 3) 15 W 2.3 GHz 4.2 GHz 16 MByte Ryzen 5 5500 U 6 / 12 (Zen 2) 15 W 2.1 GHz 4.0 GHz 8 MByte Ryzen 3 5300 U 4/8 (Zen 2) 15 W 2.6 GHz 3.8 GHz 8 MByte This is reminiscent of AMD’s strange compilation of the Ryzen – 4000 U-Portfolios in which there were models with and without Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). Flashback: Notebooks with SMT-less Ryzens were anno 2020 available much earlier than those with SMT. This leads to the fear that it will run similar this time and the first Ryzen – 5000 – Notebooks with Zen 2 internals will appear – and the performance will not differ significantly from Ryzen – 4000 – Notebooks will differ. After all: SMT is no longer a differentiating factor and for all 5000 er models are active.

As before, the notebook processors have an integrated graphics unit, but more detailed information is not yet available. According to rumors, apart from clock frequencies, it has little changed compared to Ryzen 4000 (“Renoir”) changed.

Gaming growth In the more powerful Ryzen – 5000 H models (45 – Watt class) there is no difference in the core architecture: Zen 3 is consistently used there (and also SMT). In view of the focus on powerful notebooks, there are no quad cores, but always at least six cores (Ryzen 5).

As usual, AMD is again offering models with the HS derivatives that include 35 Watts TDP specified and for compact 13 – to 15- Zöller are intended. The success of this device class – especially the flagship device Asus RoG Zephyrus G 14 – should therefore be updated. Spicy: Intel also takes Tiger Lake-H 15 offers exactly this concept, but only offers quad cores. AMD, on the other hand, drives up to eight CPU cores across all TDP classes.

With the Ryzen – 5000 – AMD also wants to take the lead in single-threading performance.

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With Ryzen 5000 there is also another CPU derivative at the top: The two eight-core Ryzen 9 5900 HX and 5980 HX are the counterparts to Intel’s HK models and, like these, come without a multiplier lock. This allows particularly powerful notebooks with processors that are overclocked at the factory. Compared to the Ryzen 7 5700 H the clock frequencies are also higher.

Gaming breakthrough Generally there are signs of a turnaround in gaming notebooks. Despite the performance of the Ryzen 4000 processors and Intel’s roadmap changes and delays due to the messed up 10 – Nanometer production existed in the past 2020 no high-end gaming notebooks with AMD processors, because notebook development takes a long time.

This year it will look completely different : The notebook manufacturers have switched their development in favor of AMD. AMD gaming notebooks will therefore not only be available with mid-range, but also with high-end GPUs. Nvidia’s launch of the mobile GeForce RTX – 3000 -Graphic chips should even be mostly in Ryzen – 5000 H – Notebooks are made – Intel’s eight-core counterpart Tiger Lake-H 45 will finally be released in spring.

First notebooks with Ryzen 5000 should appear in February according to AMD. The extent to which this works depends, as is now customary, on the further course of the coronavirus pandemic: Production and logistics have been under massive pressure for around a year, which generally leads to poor availability and price increases for notebooks (and many other technology Products).

(mue)