On May 23, Medocin was announced, which is the codename AMD gave to the new generation A Ryzen APU based on the Zen 2 architecture, whose aim was to facilitate the creation of cheap and light notebooks with good autonomy and able to offer more than acceptable performance. Today we had the opportunity to attend its official presentation and we already know all the keys to the two APU families that will give life to this generation, the so-called Ryzen 7020 and Athlon 7020. Make yourself comfortable, we will tell you all its keys.

The Ryzen 7020 and Athlon 7020 APUs are AMD’s answer to the new needs of the current portable market and represent a clear commitment to the lightweight sector, even though they are based on the concept democratize access to them by reducing the selling price, and without having to make significant sacrifices that could end up ruining the user experience. This leaves us with a very important key, which is that AMD wants to end the idea that a cheap laptop is the equivalent of a slow and unresponsive PC in our daily lives.

There are five most serious problems that the user has to deal with when buying a cheap laptop, and these served as the basis for AMD to develop the new Ryzen 7020 and Athlon 7020 APUs. Next, we will go through these problems one by one and in each of them We’ll explain how AMD managed to overcome them with these new APUs.

• Limited autonomy: For these APUs, which are manufactured on a 6nm node and have ultra-low power consumption, this is no longer a problem thanks to their configurable TDP between 8 and 15 watts.
• Low performance: another problem that has gone down in history, because this new generation is configured with Zen 2 processors with up to four cores and 8 threads capable of reaching 4.3 GHz and having 6 MB of cache (L2 + L3).
• Slow startup and loading of apps: This is no longer a problem thanks to the good performance these APUs offer, as well as support for PCIe Gen4 SSDs.
• Deprecated Features and Deprecated Platform: that is also a thing of the past, as the Ryzen 7020 and Athlon 7020 APUs are integrated into a next-generation platform with advanced features and LPDDR5 memory support. They also feature state-of-the-art security features, thanks to the Microsoft Pluton chip, and support fast charging.
• Old graphics technology with limited support: These APUs come with a Radeon 610M GPU, based on the RDNA2 architecture and with AV1 decoding support. It is capable of running casual games and many e-sports titles such as League of Legends, DOTA2 and CS:GO.

AMD ensures that with the Ryzen 7020 and Athlon 7020 we can achieve an autonomy of up to 12 hours per battery charge and showed some performance data. The Ryzen 3 7320U APU is able to offer up to 31% more office performance than the Core i3-1115G4 and also outperforms it by 58% in multitasking and 80% in file compression. App launch times are also faster thanks to support for SSD NVMe BGA drives.

It is important to note that AMD you didn’t directly recycle the Zen 2 architecture in these APUs, but resorted to an optimized version that is produced in new 6nm node from TSMC. The original Zen 2 used a 7nm node.

Ryzen 7020 and Athlon 7020 APU specifications and availability

Ryzen 5 7520U

• Zen 2 architecture on 6nm.
• 4 cores and 8 threads at a frequency of 2.8 GHz to 4.3 GHz.
• 6 MB cache.
• TDP from 8 to 15 watts.
• Integrated graphics processor Radeon 610M.

Ryzen 3 7320U

• Zen 2 architecture on 6nm.
• 4 cores and 8 threads at 2.4GHz-4.1GHz.
• 6 MB cache.
• TDP from 8 to 15 watts.
• Integrated graphics processor Radeon 610M.

Athlon Gold 7220U

• Zen 2 architecture on 6nm.
• 2 cores and 4 threads at a frequency of 2.4 GHz-3.7 GHz.
• 6 MB cache.
• TDP from 8 to 15 watts.
• Integrated graphics processor Radeon 610M.

They will be available from the end of the year and are used in notebooks from well-known manufacturers such as Lenovo, HP, ASUS and Acer.