An online listing indicates that AMD has two new Ryzen SKUs, including the Ryzen 9 5980HX for laptops.
The entries were posted this week in advance on the USB Implementers Forum website CES 2021and may offer a preview of what AMD has planned for the new year. The listings for a Ryzen 9 5980HX Specify a new mobile APU while another list for a Ryzen 7 5700G Enter a desktop Cezanne Processor.
Both APUs would be built using AMD’s new Zen 3 processing architecture and should contain at least eight cores and 16 threads Videocardz, but the actual specifications of the APUs have not been listed, so this is just speculation for now.
Hopefully we’ll see more next week when AMD unveils its Keynote CES address, where they are expected to show off their Ryzen 5000H series processors along with new graphics cards and desktop processors.
AMD mobile CPUs still lag behind Intel
Even though AMD has finally caught up with Intel In terms of market shares for desktop CPUs, they are still far behind in the field of laptops, on which Intel claims more than 80% of the market.
With the success of their desktop processors and the continued growth of the laptop market, 2021 could be the year AMD begins to focus more on the laptop side with its Cezanne APUs.
However, Intel is unlikely to gain a foothold here as they are expected to announce new Tiger Lake processors during CES as well. Since Intel Evo is showing promise, they are not as precarious on the mobile computer side as they are with desktops.
