AMD Introduces New Versions of Ryzen 5000U Laptop APUs for Thin Laptops

AMD has introduced three new versions of its Ryzen 5000 laptop processors, the Ryzen 7 5825U, Ryzen 5625U and Ryzen 3 5425U. These are new apus made on the 7nm process of TSMC. They combine up to eight Zen 3 cores with up to eight Vega GPU cores.

In addition to a new line of Ryzen 6000 laptop processors, AMD has also introduced three new versions of its Ryzen 5000 laptop processors. It is a refresh of the Cézanne chips, which previously had the code name ‘Barcelo’. The processors come from the U-series. That is a series aimed at ultra-thin laptops.

The new processors have appeared on AMD’s website and include the Ryzen 7 5825U, Ryzen 5625U and Ryzen 3 5425U. These are made on the 7nm process of TSMC and use up to eight Zen 3 cores and up to eight Vega GPU cores. By comparison, the Ryzen 6000 APUs feature Zen 3+ cores and RDNA2 GPUs, produced at 6nm. A smaller production process means better performance while the processor remains economical.

The most powerful apu of the three is the Ryzen 7 5825U. This combines 8 Zen 3 cores with a Radeon RX Vega 8 GPU. The difference in the three is also in the L2 and L3 memory. The 5825U has 4MB L2 memory and 16MB L3 memory, the 5625U has 3MB L2 memory and 16MB L3 memory, and the 5425U has 2MB L2 memory and 8MB L3 memory.

Unlike their predecessor, the new versions of the 5000 series do not use the Cézanne chip, but a renewed Barcelo chip, Videocardz explained in October. This is a more economical and cheaper alternative to the Rembrandt-U chip, which is also intended for thin Ultrabooks. Barcelo also has a lower thermal design power of 15W than the Rembrandt-U.