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Lenovo’s new AMD Ryzen 4000-powered Yoga starts $360 cheaper than its Intel version

AMD hasn’t even officially announced its Ryzen 4000 processors yet, but Lenovo is already offering us a first glimpse at a laptop that will ship in April with the new chips. The Yoga Slim 7 is new and improved for 2020, and Lenovo is offering two versions of the 14-inch laptop with either AMD’s Ryzen 4000 series chips or Intel’s 10th Gen Core i7.

The choice between Intel and AMD will undoubtedly come down to budget versus performance, as Lenovo is pricing the AMD version of this 14-inch laptop starting at just $849.99 compared to the starting price of the Intel version at $1,209.99.

AMD hasn’t fully detailed its Ryzen 4000 processors just yet, so it’s unclear exactly what chip will power this Yoga Slim 7. We do know that the Ryzen 4000 series is based on 7nm process technology and AMD’s Zen 2 core architecture, though. The $360 gap does suggest that AMD either has a very budget-friendly option available to OEMs or Lenovo isn’t including Intel’s budget chips in the Yoga Slim 7.

The Verge.

 

[DESTROYA]

I really hope we see more good AMD powered laptops in 2020, there were some good ones with 3000 series in 2019 but manufacturers either gimped them with single channel RAM or the TDP was set so low they never realized there real potential.
Hopefully on 7nm we see some of those restraints removed and more laptops makers use dual channel RAM.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Paging Leonidas for his explosive battery take.

 

[llien]

Meh at "performance or value" spin in the OP.
It looks like AMD is poised to repeat what they did in the server market: STOMP all over Intel.

CES 2020: Lenovo Yoga Slim 7, with AMD 4000 APU inside, Coming March

www.anandtech.com

there were some good ones with 3000 series in 2019 but manufacturers either gimped them with single channel RAM or the TDP was set so low they never realized there real potential.

Uh, actually:

HP had amasing x360 envy series, where even 2xxx series Ryzen's rocked.
Lenovo has T495/T595, with no compromise/corners cut.

 

[DESTROYA]

Meh at "performance or value" spin in the OP.
It looks like AMD is poised to repeat what they did in the server market: STOMP all over Intel.

CES 2020: Lenovo Yoga Slim 7, with AMD 4000 APU inside, Coming March

www.anandtech.com

Uh, actually:

HP had amasing x360 envy series, where even 2xxx series Ryzen's rocked.
Lenovo has T495/T595, with no compromise/corners cut.

Did you miss the part saying there were some good AMD laptops?

Lenovo laptops with the Ryzen 7 3700U run 58 percent faster than HP laptops with the exact same processor

An HP facepalm. Of the four laptops we've tested so far with AMD's latest Zen+ CPU, the two HP models perform noticeably slower than the two Lenovo models because of better temperature and clock rate management on the latter systems according to our own findings.

www.notebookcheck.net

 

[Azurro]

I hope these new CPUs are able to offer similar or better performance than the 8750H and 9750H Core i7s. Almost any laptop with those chips is crazy expensive, it'd be amazing if AMD can change that and with more cores to boot.

 

[newtypepilot]

intel: don't worry guys, we still dominate the laptop market
amd: hold my beer

 

[llien]

A bloody 8 core 16 thread CPU with Vega cores and 15w TDP. DEAR GOD.

Did you miss the part saying there were some good AMD laptops?

After BS statement of "if it's cheaper, it has to be worse" I didn't bother.

 

[llien]

Checked the specs again.

Ryzen 4000 (Ryzen 7 4800U to be specific) beats the best Ice Lake chip Intel has (i7-1065G7) in literally every single metric (+4% in single-thread, +90% in multi-thread, & +28% in iGPU)

 

[DESTROYA]

A bloody 8 core 16 thread CPU with Vega cores and 15w TDP. DEAR GOD.


After BS statement of "if it's cheaper, it has to be worse" I didn't bother.

I never said that.

 

[llien]

I never said that.

I never said you did. The linked article does: "The choice between Intel and AMD will undoubtedly come down to budget versus performance ".
Well, obviously, it doesn't have to:

 

[thelastword]

Remember all the Ice Lake threads we had with leaked benchmarks et al...….How some folk said AMD had no chance in the laptop market?

The Ryzen 4000 APU's destroys icelake and even beats the 9700k in many tests....

 

[DESTROYA]

Remember all the Ice Lake threads we had with leaked benchmarks et al...….How some folk said AMD had no chance in the laptop market?

The Ryzen 4000 APU's destroys icelake and even beats the 9700k in many tests....

Is excited as I am for these new AMD 4000U series APU’S I’ll believe that when I see some actual benchmarks and not just some slides shown at a reveal.

 

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