CES 2021

The new AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors promise the best gaming experience for 2021. Most of the new processors in this new series are based on the architecture of 7nm ‘Zen 3’ and the company claims this model to be both energy-efficient and high in performance. AMD revealed this big announcement at the virtual event of CES 2021. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, said that the new Ryzen 5000 mobile series is the most powerful processor ever built.

These new processors will be available in the early Q1 2021 from manufacturing companies like Lenovo, Asus, Acer, Dell, and HP. Su also mentioned that about 150 models will be launched this year showing a 50% increase in growth over the previous generation. Apart from the new series of mobile processors, AMD also showed a glimpse of upcoming Radeon GPUs for both desktops and laptops. Along with this, the company showed a teaser of the next-gen Epyc data centers CPUs.

AMD Ryzen 5000 series

The 5000 series of AMD processors have two main categories, namely, the H series and the U series. Laptops of the H series are extensively used by gamers and content creators whereas the U series laptops are more of ultraportable notebooks.

Ryzen H, HS, and HX series

As the H series processors are specially designed for high-performance gaming laptops, the company is focusing on Ryzen HX as a differentiating brand to represent the choice for ultimate gaming laptops. The battery life of this new series of laptops is outstanding so that the gamers are not interrupted while playing. The processor of the H series has 3 cores and 16 threads. As compared to the last generation processors, Ryzen 9 5980HX has a 23% increased capability to perform single-thread performance and a 17% boost in performing multi-thread functions.

While the new HX series is all focused on gaming quality with a boost speed of 4.6 GHz, 45W TDP, 20MB of L2+L3 cache, the HS-series processors are designed for thin and light systems. On the HS-series, Ryzen 9 5980HS also has 8 cores and 16 threads. It allows a top boost speed of 4.8 GHz and like AMD says “the fastest mobile processors you can get.”  Some of the new processors in the H-series, HS-series, and HX-series are Ryzen 7 5800H, Ryzen 9 5980HX, and Ryzen 9 5900HS respectively.

The U-series from Ryzen

According to the company, the new Ryzen 7 5800U from the U-series is rated for a high battery life of 17.5 hours of general usage and 21 hours in case of video playback. This new processor of the U-series also has 8 cores and 16 threads with a boost speed of 4.4 GHz slightly lower than the H-series. AMD claims that this processor will deliver the fastest productivity in ultrathin notebooks. Targeting mainly the general consumers like students and office goers, the new processors of the U-series will provide a 16% boost in the single-thread performance and 14% in the multi-thread performance. Till now, 5 new models of the U-series have been announced by the company but some of them will still run on the Zen-2 architecture. Models like Ryzen 7 5700U, Ryzen 5 5500U, and Ryzen 3 5300U will run on Zen-2 architecture.

Apart from the new H-series and U-series processors, AMD has also introduced new Ryzen desktop processors. The company revealed new variants of Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 7 5800X for a better experience for desktop users. AMD claims that the desktop process Ryzen 9 5900X will increase the 1080p gaming performance by making it 24% faster than the previous generation.

New Intel processors

With introducing so many powerful processors this year, it will give a tough competition for the Intel processors. In the virtual event of CES 2021, Intel also introduced the new Tiger Lake H systems. Last year, Intel launched the 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors and in CES 2021, the company released the H-series of the 11th Gen Core chips. Intel is introducing 35W H-series chips so that the performance is enhanced for the lightweight small laptops. The details are not very clear about the upcoming models for 45W chips which AMD needs to look out for.