AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks

Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by gameswithgo on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:15AM (#25791855)

Yes, but 4 cores has been the standard for a long time already. Recently thanks to AMD heavy users often are grabbing 8, 12, 16 or more.

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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by qayxc on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:41AM (#25792770)

You wish! Intel only very recently (e.g. 3 years ago) brought 4 cores to mainstream in the mobile segment.

Low power mobile chips were dual core until Q3 2017 when Kaby Lake refresh was released and brought 4 cores to the i5 and i7 line-up. Even then, entry level and mainstream versions (i3 in particular) remained dual core configs.

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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by nicoburns on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:33AM (#25792056)

Only the very top end of laptop CPUs had 4 cores until recently. Certainly they weren't mainstream 5-7 years ago.

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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by findthewords on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:28PM (#25793429)

I have a cheap Thinkpad E-series from 2012 with Intel i7-3612QM 4c/8t CPU. At the time it cost a third less than a Macbook. As far as price was concerned it was mainstream.

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