At CES, AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7000 Mobile, a new processor platform for laptops that will have to compete with Intel’s Raptor Lake, which was also unveiled in Las Vegas.

For starters, let’s say the platform includes five distinct series to cover the entire range. And that’s great, but — as we feared — it combines CPU (Zen2, Zen3, Zen3+, and Zen4) and GPU (Vega, RDNA2, and RDNA3) microarchitectures that can confuse consumers, and to be honest, it’s too much mix with a lot of ‘fried’ component, some with a long time on the market. Intel has a more defined and modern product line, and that’s where AMD should go if they want to repeat Ryzen’s big success for desktops on laptops.

Series on Ryzen 7000 Mobile

• Ryzen 7045 for high-end, extreme gamers and creators.
• Ryzen 7040 for ultra-thin notebooks for enthusiasts.
• Ryzen 7035 for premium thin and light notebooks.
• Ryzen 7030 for heavy consumption
• Ryzen 7020 for the entry range.

That said, the first two lines are the most interesting because they’re based on AMD’s latest architecture, ZEN 4, which we saw debut with desktop models in the fall and which AMD also expanded upon at CES. (We’ll see in another article)

Ryzen 7045

AMD’s most powerful line for notebooks looks very good. It is produced in 5 nm technological processes and all technologies ZEN4will have versions up to 16 cores and 32 threads native processing working with operating frequencies of up to 5.4 GHz and will include an incredible 80 MB of buffer memory (L2+L3).

These “Dragon Range” will support DDR5 memories and new connection standards such as USB4, which will easily compete with Intel Thunderbolt. Its graphics performance will be limited by only two RDNA2 computing units, although this is understandable in this product line, since this type of CPU will be combined with dedicated graphics. Their TDP consumption will be at least 55 watts and they will come to the market in Ryzen 9, 7 and 5 versions.

Ryzen 7040

Another interesting series will be for ultralights, also under ZEN4. Made in the processes of 4 nanometers, will offer processors with up to 8 cores and 16 threads, with frequencies above 5 GHz and 20 MB cache. It focuses on high-end ultralight notebooks, here yes AMD mounts integrated graphics of a good levelwith 12 computing units and the most advanced RDNA3 architecture.

It will support DDR5 and LPDDR5 memories as well as USB4. Its consumption will be between 35 and 45 watts. It should be noted that this series will have a Ryzen AI, a built-in AI engine that handles video calling tasks or sorting through a photo library. AMD says Ryzen AI can multitask up to 4 different workloads or combine their performance into one. It is a novelty that we will have time to comment on. These “Phoenixes” will be released in Ryzen 9, 7, 5 and 3 versions.

Ryzen 7035 and 7030

Less attractive than the two previous ones in that it does not use the latest ZEN4 architecture and even uses Vega graphics chips with many years behind them and which, frankly, are completely outdated, they are produced with technological processes of 6 and 7 nm and will offer models with 8 nmcores and 16 threads.

They have 20 MB of cache and corresponding support for DDR5/LPDDR5 and DDR4/LPDDR4. The 7035 will support USB4 and have 12 RDNA2 compute units. The use of Vega graphics in the 7030 – in my opinion – completely excludes them, although they will be the least demanding of the whole range (from 15W to 35W) and basically cheap.

Ryzen 7020

Finally, highlight the 7020 as the entry line to Ryzen 7000 Mobile. Manufactured in 6nm processes, they will have 4 cores and 8 processing threads with 6MB of buffer memory. For graphics, they will include 2 RDNA 2 compute units. They will be very cheap and we’ll see them on basic Windows or Chrome OS laptops.

Ryzen 7000 Mobile will hit the market in February and some high-end models have already been announced, Alienware m16, ASUS Strix or Lenovo Legion, which we have already presented to you at CES 2023.