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AMD’s laptop resurgence continues
with Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors
Two straight generations of Zen processors have made inroads into Intel’s market share in
laptops. Can the Ryzen 5000 Mobile and Zen 3 continue the trend? BY MARK HACHMANA
MD officially launched its Ryzen
5000 Mobile processors at CES
2021 in January, hoping to
continue what it’s accomplished
on the desktop (go.pcworld.com/acdk):
bring its powerful Zen 3 architecture to bear
and oust Intel’s Core i9 as the best gaming
CPU. The unexpected bonus AMD adds is a
renewed focus on battery life, potentially
solving a noted weakness in Ryzen-powered
laptops.AMD chief executive Lisa Su ushered in
the new lineup of mobile chips as part of her
keynote address at CES 2021, now held
virtually rather than in Las Vegas. Su didn’t
announce any new GPUs, but did say that the
AMD RDNA 2 GPU architecture (go.pcworld.
com/rdna) found within the RX6800 and
similar chips will arrive in mobile GPUs in the
first half of 2021, along with “mainstream”
desktop graphics cards. She showed off a
reference notebook running Dirt 5 at 1440p