User of Computers Eew. People bash Intel over the head for this, but at least they boost the clocks. These are just straight-up rebrands with no clock bump, nor any other improvements or better features. Honestly pretty disappointing. Reply
usertests Notton said: They must have made billions of Mendostinkers to still have a enough for world distribution in 2025. A 7520U is around an i7-7700 in performance, except with a faster RDNA2 iGPU, AV1 decode, etc. Not bad, except for the single-channel memory, and no DDR5/SODIMMs supported. What would be interesting is if they started selling the Ryzen Z2 A (Steam Deck 1 APU) for laptops. Same N6 node as Mendocino, bigger die, but a lot more desirable. Give the world another 10,000 wafers full of those instead, please. User of Computers said: Eew. People bash Intel over the head for this, but at least they boost the clocks. These are just straight-up rebrands with no clock bump, nor any other improvements or better features. Honestly pretty disappointing. They're good enough without a 1-2% boost from clocks. No other improvements could be expected if they are using the same dies. Rebrandeon is annoying, but the real problem with laptop chips has always been pricing. Mendocino has been overpriced from start to finish. A new name could even be an excuse to keep the pricing high. AMD is expected to start making chiplet-based APUs soon, so maybe they can make subtle changes in the future without needing to redesign monolithic dies. But I'd still expect them to keep selling the same chips with no changes. Reply
dalek1234 Aligning older processors to the new naming scheme makes sense. Keeping two different naming schemes will only add to the confusion created by the cryptic, old naming scheme. Reply
m3city And its wrong why exactly? If it was with a press release saying "hey, we are pleased to announce a new, shiny cpus" then yes. Otherwise, no. An inquisitive user would dive to specs anyway, and see that these are zen2 (while there is nothing wrong with it, but one may always compare it with anything else for perf), an ordinary user would not care. If the price us right for his wallet, then he buys it, and I pretty sure ant if these cpus will do it's job. Reply
salgado18 This is awful for one important reason: it lost the letter that tells if the chip is focused on low energy or high performance. A 7535U has low base clocks and is meant for battery efficiency, a 7535H has high base clocks and is meant for high performance plugged to the wall. Now they are 130 and 150. It's not that the 150 is more powerful, but it has an entirely different power profile. Now it just seems like a simple upgrade. Once again the consumer lost. Reply
reflex25 I am a keen customer of AMD (something to do with a US lawsuit in 1993), but their range of CPU's APU's and modules is almost impossible to comprehend and now they are changing the model numbers. Please could they simplify this. I waited ages for the 9600G, but in the end opted for a Stix Halo module in an HP Mini Z2. I am very pleased with this, but what muddle. Reply
Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-rebrands-ryzen-7035-7020-series-mobile-processors-zen-2-and-zen-3-chips-receive-new-identities#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
- Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever
- Nvidia's market capitalization hits $5.12 trillion — AI powerhouse is the first company in history to hit seismic milestone
- Intel's revolutionary 54-year-old 4004 chip was the world's first programmable microchip — 2,300-transistor 10,000nm processor exposed
- Nvidia announces reference design for colossal gigawatt-scale Omniverse DSX data centers — single data center requires a nuclear reactor's worth of power genera
- Creative Labs revives Sound Blaster brand with modular audio hub — Re:Imagine is a tactile Stream Deck competitor, aimed at creators and audiophiles
Informational only. No financial advice. Do your own research.