18 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2020NEWS AMD’S 7NM RYZEN 4000 LAPTOP CPUS
VIDEO: AMD’S 7NM
RYZEN 4000 CPUS
Watch now at go.pcworld.com/ryAMD said this can result in a
10 percent boost in performance
in games like The Division 2 or a
12 percent bump in Cinebench
R20 results.
If this sounds familiar, that’s
because Intel implemented
something similar with its Kaby
Lake G chip (go.pcworld.com/
klkg) that was built with a
7th-gen Intel Core CPU and
custom Radeon graphics.ATHLON 3000
AMD also announced a pair of
new Athlon 3000-series
processors for budget laptops,
promising modern computing
features on the cheap.A LOT OF RYZEN 4000
LAPTOPS COMING
Despite the surprising success AMD has with
Ryzen CPUs in desktops (go.pcworld.
com/3ryz), it would be an understatement
to say the company’s momentum has been
underwhelming in laptops. The Ryzen CPUs
available thus far have been mostly budget
options and typically far outnumbered by
Intel-based laptops.
With Ryzen 4000, AMD said, momentum
is finally swinging its way. There will be no
fewer than 100 laptops based on Ryzen chips
coming out throughout the year. Even betterfor AMD: Many of them will be premium
laptops, where the company has frankly never
had any success outside Microsoft’s Surface
Laptop 3 (go.pcworld.com/msl3) and Lenovo
ThinkPads.
Combine good CPU performance, good
GPU performance, and at least 100 new Ryzen
4000 laptop designs, and you can imagine this
year will shape up to be an exciting one for
consumers. AMD’s bringing it to Intel.