AMD has announced its new Ryzen 7020 and Athlon 7020 “Mendocino” mobile processor series. The chips will compete with Intel’s new Core i3s, as both are designed to power devices of lower cost and power.
In the words of AMD's presentation, they are for "the laptop you use every day«. They are the first chips of the new Ryzen 7000 mobile line from AMD.
AMD will soon release Ryzen 7020 CPUs for cheaper laptops
The first three Mendocino Ryzen 7020 chips to be released are the Ryzen 5 7520U, Ryzen 3 7320U, and Athlon Gold 7220U. All three have a TDP of 8W to 15W and Radeon 610M graphics. Both Ryzen chips have 6MB of cache and four cores with eight threads, while the Athlon model has 5MB of cache and two cores with four threads. Despite being called Ryzen 7000, due to their nomenclature, they are built on the “Zen 2» from AMD on a 6nm process.
These chips are made for very cheap laptops. Among the models that will power these chips is Acer's Aspire 3, models of which can currently be purchased for less than $400 in the United States. AMD claims that the new chips will enable up to 12 hours of battery life, and that outperform Intel Core i3 in productivity and multitasking performance. They also do it in application launch speed. The Radeon 610M graphics would make for better integrated graphics than earlier low-end options from AMD, but would not be recommended for gaming.
These are the first mobile processors after AMD unveiled its new chip naming scheme for 2023. The most significant change is that the third digit of each chip name makes it clear which version of the Zen architecture that chip uses, in this case, the Zen 2, an architecture that will soon be two generations old. The goal of this change is to prevent customers from accusing them of selling less powerful CPUs than they think. This would be great if people fully knew what the new naming scheme for laptop CPUs looks like, since if they read Ryzen 7000, they would think they use Zen 4 CPUs.
Source: The Verge
