AMD unveils Ryzen 5000 mobile processors based on the 7nm Zen 3 architecture

AMD has taken the covers off its much anticipated AMD Ryzen 5000 mobile processors, heading to gaming notebooks and ultra-portables during 2021, and described in the company’s CES keynote as  “the most powerful PC processors ever built.” Following on from the Desktop range, revealed last October, there are two distinct ranges, the H-Series for gaming and the U-Series for portability.

Most products in the 7nm range boast AMD’s Zen 3 architecture (though a couple of the U-Series are stuck on Zen 2) matched up with Vega Compute units. The top-of-the-line U-Series chipset is the Ryzen 7 5800U, which offers a 1.9GHz clock, with a speed boost up to 4.4GHz. AMD claims that this will wipe the floor with the equivalent Intel Core i7-1165G7. The company also offers some pretty impressive stamina — suggesting 17.5 hours of continuous usage. Let’s take that one with a pinch of salt for now until we see it working on a real-world device, but it certainly sounds like a serious powerhouse.

H is for Gaming

For the gamers, there’s the H-series, spearheaded by the Ryzen 9 5980HS, an octa-core monster with 16 threads, and a 3.0GHz clock speed that maxes out at 4.8GHz – significantly faster than anything we’ve seen from AMD’s mobile chipsets before. If that’s not enough juice for you, there’s the Ryzen 5900HX, which has similar specs, but comes unlocked, a first for a mobile processor from AMD, allowing for overclocking. As such, it’s configured for TDPs above the 45w of the HS model. All these headline variants also boast 20MB of L3 cache.

All of that means that, at least on paper, these processors can handle more than Intel’s Tiger Lake H devices announced at CES, though, with more powerful Intel offerings promised by the Spring, they may not be able to make that boast for long.

Meanwhile, there are AMD Ryzen variants across the range, starting with the AMD Ryzen 3 5300U with its 4 cores and 8 threads, 15-watt TDP, 2.6GHz base frequency, boosted up to 3.8GHz, but with a mere 6MB L3 cache and working up through Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 configurations, up to those meaty gaming options in the Ryzen 9 range.

It’s not entirely clear why there are a couple of U-Series offerings that are on last year’s Zen 2 architecture, especially given that they all have a Zen 3 equivalent also launching. This could be a branding exercise, allowing OEMs to offer lower-priced devices boasting today’s model numbers at yesterday’s prices. All will become a lot clearer as some of the “1500 devices” that AMD believes will be launched using its chips during 2021, start to appear and get benchmarked.

The full range and specifications are listed below, (with thanks to Anandtech).

AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile Series

AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile: H-Series
Credits: AnandTech	Cores/Threads	Base Frequency	Boost Frequency	TDP	Zen
Ryzen 9 5980HX	8C / 16T	3300	4800	45W+	Zen3
Ryzen 9 5980HS	8C / 16T	3000	4800	35W	Zen3
Ryzen 9 5900HX	8C / 16T	3300	4600	45W+	Zen3
Ryzen 9 5900HS	8C / 16T	3000	4600	35W	Zen3
Ryzen 7 5800H	8C / 16T	3200	4400	45W	Zen3
Ryzen 7 5800HS	8C / 16T	2800	4400	35W	Zen3
Ryzen 5 5600H	6C / 12T	3300	4200	45W	Zen3
Ryzen 5 5600HS	6C / 12T	3000	4200	35W	Zen3

 

AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile: U-Series
Credits: AnandTech	Cores/Threads	Base Frequency	Boost Frequency	TDP	Zen
Zen3
Ryzen 7 5800U	8C / 16T	1900	4400	15W	Zen3
Ryzen 5 5600U	6C / 12T	2300	4200	15W	Zen3
Zen2
Ryzen 7 5700U	8C / 16T	1800	4300	15W	Zen2
Ryzen 5 5500U	6C / 12T	2100	4000	15W	Zen2
Ryzen 3 5300U	4C / 8T	2600	3800	15W	Zen2

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