Why doesn't the Surface Laptop 4 have the latest Ryzen processors?

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 offers a rare opportunity for benchmarking nerds: a chance to test rival AMD Ryzen and Intel Core processors in the same device. But unlike with our AMD/Intel CPU comparison using the Surface Laptop 3, this time it’s an unfair fight: Intel’s latest 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake processors take on AMD’s older Ryzen 4000 Mobile processors, instead of the company’s latest Ryzen Mobile 5000 chips.Why? Because AMD and Microsoft jointly develop “Surface Edition” versions of the Ryzen processor for the Surface Laptop 4. That cycle started more a year ago, according to Microsoft, before Ryzen 5000 was available.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3614697/why-doesnt-the-surface-laptop-4-have-the-latest-ryzen-processors.html#tk.rss_all

Created 4y | Apr 14, 2021, 2:20:55 PM


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