in the market for a new laptop AMD has overhauled how it names its mobile
processors and yes I know things are already confusing enough in the tech
world with how many changes there have been to USB and Wi-Fi and display
standards but it turns out team red isn't just doing this to torture us you
see AMD apparently ran out of ways to fit their upcoming laptop processors
into their old naming scheme so there's a new one that
well it takes a little bit of explaining before we get into the Nitty Gritty we'd
like to thank our friend Matthew hurwitz from AMD for helping to clarify the
reasoning behind some of the decisions the company made going forward each
laptop CPU is going to have a name with four digits followed by a letter but the
two most important for those of you concerned about performance will be the
middle two digits the second digit is going to tell you whether the chip is a
Ryzen three ryzen 5 7 or 9 or a lower
end Athlon chip denoted by a one or a two confusingly though already it's
confusing the second digit won't always match up to the actual product stack
both three and four can indicate a ryzen
3 chip 5 and 6 can indicate a ryzen 5 and here's the real curveball eight
could indicate a ryzen 7 or a ryzen 9.
the third digit mercifully is a little more straightforward this lines up with
whichever architectural generation the chip uses so three for Zen three four
for Zen four and five for the upcoming Zen 5. nice and simple but whatever
about the other numbers well the first digit of the whole name is the model
year seven for 2023 8 for 2024 and 9 for
2025. although the model year itself doesn't tell you much about the
processor's capabilities I mean it's not a car AMD told us that the reason this
was placed first was to allow customers to quickly tell if the laptop is current
or if it's a previous year's model and in case you're wondering how in the
world a 7 corresponds to 2023 last year's mobile Parts started with a six
and this Jen's desktop chip names will start with a seven so there's some
Harmony there another goal of starting with the model year is to easily
indicate when there's a model that's similar to last year's but with a
slightly higher performance so a 7530 and an 8530 for example those would
denote similar chips but with the latter being a little newer and a little nicer
than the former even though they'd be using the same architecture but one of
the things that's a bit annoying about this naming scheme is even if these are
not on the same architecture and older design and could still have a bigger
number up front a potential point of confusion for consumers okay but what
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
indicates either a lower end or a higher end chip respectively all other things
being equal the letter at the end though is a little more interesting CPU
aficionados will be familiar with the letter suffixes especially on the mobile
side and AMD's new scheme is curiously similar to what we've seen with their
Rivals at Intel top end laptop processors will get an HX designation
indicating a TDP of 55 watts and higher
sitting below that is HS for 35 Plus
watt chips that are still high-end but geared more towards thin form factor
systems moving down the stack we have the 15 plus watt U suffix for ultra thin
notebooks and C for Chromebooks finally there's a little e which designates a
nine plus watt computer that's basically a fanless version of the U so what does
this all mean for you well a lot of Hardware Enthusiast sites have panned
the naming scheme as being overly complicated as well as a way for AMD to
pass off what are essentially older chips as being current models similar to
the shenanigans of how NVIDIA has continually rebadged lower end gpus that
are many years old on the flip side having the middle couple of numbers
giving us lots of information about the product again similar to NVIDIA as well
as Radeon gpus isn't new and team red did at least provide us with an
explainer but what do you you think of all this especially as it compares to
AMD's Old naming scheme comment down below and remember to argue with your
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