Ryzen Mobile 7040 Series: Zen 4 Phoenix Takes Flight So between all of these configurations, AMD should have something for everyone in their 2023 mobile CPU product stack. It is, for better or worse, a very dense mobile product stack, with 19 different consumer SKUs and another 3 PRO SKUs, covering a significant range of features and performance levels, as well as price ranges. The end result is that between their various sub-series, the Ryzen Mobile 7000 family is comprised of a mix of 3 different Zen CPU architectures, built across 4 different process nodes. Finally, AMD’s Zen 2 Mendocino platform, which was introduced towards the end of last year and is already part of the Ryzen Mobile 7000 family, will remain as their budget offering for thin and light laptops.Īnd here’s what that looks like in terms of hardware features/specifications: Meanwhile AMD’s more portable laptops will use Phoenix for the fastest and most expensive laptops, with the refreshed Zen 3-based Rembrandt-R (7035 series) and Barcelo-R (7030 series) platforms providing for cheaper options, particularly with the 15-28 Watt U-series parts. The lineup ends up looking like the above, with Dragon Range being dedicated to DTR-class laptops. Gavin has a great write-up on the new HX mobile SKUs in another piece, but in short, the 7045 series Dragon Range platform is the mobile variant of AMD’s desktop Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” silicon, chiplets and all.įor everything else, AMD is offering a mix of mobile-focused monolithic CPU dies across the rest of the Ryzen Mobile 7000 series family, including the new 7040 series Phoenix platform. Which in this generation has gone from being a high TDP variant of AMD’s mobile silicon, and instead is using AMD’s desktop silicon, similar to what Intel does with their own HX series processors. In practice we’ve seen AMD goose their H(S) silicon over 45W in the past, and I wouldn’t consider that to be off the table in the future, but for now those are the official ranges.įor anyone that needs a more powerful (and power-hungry) CPU still, there is the HX class. Instead, the HS-series now covers the 35W to 45W via configurable TDPs, making the separate H and HS series redundant in AMD’s eyes. Starting with the Ryzen Mobile 7000 series, the H-series class has been retired. The rest, while still important, are there to define segments and TDPs, rather than the hardware itself.Īs part of this product name refactoring, AMD has also revised their TDP classes for mobile CPUs. If you only take away two things from AMD’s new product naming system, the important things are that the leading digit is the model year, and the third digit is the CPU architecture (e.g. AMD Ryzen Mobile Product Number Decoder (2023- 2025) Given AMD’s affinity for announcing new mobile CPUs at CES, I suspect this means we’re going to be talking about a new top-to-bottom AMD mobile CPU product stack at each and every CES from now on. In practice, AMD has committed themselves to offering a mix of new silicon and product refreshes (e.g. First unveiled by the company back in September, AMD is moving to a model year system, incrementing the first digit of their processor model numbers each and every year. New Names, New Categories, Mobile Silicon Smorgasbordįirst and foremost, this year marks the kick-off point for AMD’s new mobile CPU naming system. There’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s dive right in. This includes the return of some old favorites, including bringing desktop Zen 4 silicon to mobile, as well as the introduction of AMD’s brand-new Phoenix CPU silicon, their first mobile-focused Zen 4 CPU design. The densely packed keynote immediately kicked things off with the announcement of AMD’s 2023 mobile product stack, which will see the CPU vendor mixing and matching silicon across multiple generations of designs to put together a fresh product stack for the new year. This year’s CES has turned out to be a laptop-centric event in the PC space, and no farther do you have to look for proof of that than AMD’s CES keynote.
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