Microsoft device with Ryzen 7 4800U processor appears in benchmark database

A Microsoft device with AMD Ryzen 7 4800U processor has been spotted in 3DMark’s database. That seems to indicate that new Surface Laptops are on the way with Ryzen 4000 processors. In the Surface Laptop 3, Microsoft already uses AMD CPUs.

It is not clear from the listing at 3DMark what exactly it is, but Microsoft is considered the manufacturer. Twitter user Tum_Apisak noticed that. The Ryzen 7 4800U is a 15W laptop processor with eight cores. It is likely that it is a new Surface Laptop.

Last year in October, Microsoft released the Surface Laptop 3 and the 15″ variant of it can be delivered with the Ryzen 7 3780U or Ryzen 5 3580U. Those processors were made in collaboration with Microsoft and have an extra GPU core compared to the comparable Ryzen 3000 processors found in other laptops.

The new benchmark refers to a regular AMD Ryzen 4800U processor, which is also in other laptops. It seems that Microsoft is no longer opting for a custom processor. The new Ryzen 4000U processors are made at 7nm and have up to eight cores. The Surface Laptop 3 still uses Ryzen 3000U processors that are made at 12nm and have up to four cores.

It is not yet known when Microsoft will announce new Surface Laptops. The first Surface Laptop came out in mid-2017. The second generation followed at the end of 2018 and at the end of 2019 it was followed by the Surface Laptop 3 models.

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