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in the market for a new laptop AMD has overhauled how it names its mobile

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processors and yes I know things are already confusing enough in the tech

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world with how many changes there have been to USB and Wi-Fi and display

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standards but it turns out team red isn't just doing this to torture us you

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see AMD apparently ran out of ways to fit their upcoming laptop processors

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into their old naming scheme so there's a new one that

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well it takes a little bit of explaining before we get into the Nitty Gritty we'd

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like to thank our friend Matthew hurwitz from AMD for helping to clarify the

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reasoning behind some of the decisions the company made going forward each

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laptop CPU is going to have a name with four digits followed by a letter but the

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two most important for those of you concerned about performance will be the

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middle two digits the second digit is going to tell you whether the chip is a

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Ryzen three ryzen 5 7 or 9 or a lower

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end Athlon chip denoted by a one or a two confusingly though already it's

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confusing the second digit won't always match up to the actual product stack

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both three and four can indicate a ryzen

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3 chip 5 and 6 can indicate a ryzen 5 and here's the real curveball eight

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could indicate a ryzen 7 or a ryzen 9.

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the third digit mercifully is a little more straightforward this lines up with

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whichever architectural generation the chip uses so three for Zen three four

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for Zen four and five for the upcoming Zen 5. nice and simple but whatever

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about the other numbers well the first digit of the whole name is the model

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year seven for 2023 8 for 2024 and 9 for

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2025. although the model year itself doesn't tell you much about the

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processor's capabilities I mean it's not a car AMD told us that the reason this

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was placed first was to allow customers to quickly tell if the laptop is current

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or if it's a previous year's model and in case you're wondering how in the

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world a 7 corresponds to 2023 last year's mobile Parts started with a six

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and this Jen's desktop chip names will start with a seven so there's some

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Harmony there another goal of starting with the model year is to easily

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indicate when there's a model that's similar to last year's but with a

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slightly higher performance so a 7530 and an 8530 for example those would

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denote similar chips but with the latter being a little newer and a little nicer

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than the former even though they'd be using the same architecture but one of

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the things that's a bit annoying about this naming scheme is even if these are

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not on the same architecture and older design and could still have a bigger

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number up front a potential point of confusion for consumers okay but what

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about the rest of the naming scheme we'll tell you how to decipher that right after we thank brilliant for

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fourth number is always going to be either a zero or a five and simply

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indicates either a lower end or a higher end chip respectively all other things

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being equal the letter at the end though is a little more interesting CPU

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aficionados will be familiar with the letter suffixes especially on the mobile

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side and AMD's new scheme is curiously similar to what we've seen with their

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Rivals at Intel top end laptop processors will get an HX designation

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indicating a TDP of 55 watts and higher

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sitting below that is HS for 35 Plus

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watt chips that are still high-end but geared more towards thin form factor

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systems moving down the stack we have the 15 plus watt U suffix for ultra thin

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notebooks and C for Chromebooks finally there's a little e which designates a

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nine plus watt computer that's basically a fanless version of the U so what does

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this all mean for you well a lot of Hardware Enthusiast sites have panned

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the naming scheme as being overly complicated as well as a way for AMD to

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pass off what are essentially older chips as being current models similar to

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the shenanigans of how NVIDIA has continually rebadged lower end gpus that

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are many years old on the flip side having the middle couple of numbers

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giving us lots of information about the product again similar to NVIDIA as well

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as Radeon gpus isn't new and team red did at least provide us with an

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explainer but what do you you think of all this especially as it compares to

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AMD's Old naming scheme comment down below and remember to argue with your

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fellow viewers as much as possible that's what makes a healthy comment

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