Surface Laptop 4 Will Probably Ship With An 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

First making its debut in Microsoft'south Surface Laptop three, AMD'southward Ryzen 7 3780U and Ryzen 5 3580U Microsoft Surface Edition processors brought iv cores and 8 threads to the table, only a recent leak suggests the Surface Laptop 4 will receive an upgrade to viii cores and 16 threads thanks to AMD'southward Ryzen seven 4800U.

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U 3DMark Entry Spotted In An Unknown Microsoft Device

Notorious hardware leaker APISAK recently spotted a 3DMark entry for the AMD Ryzen vii 4800U, and in doing so, a scrap of information in terms of the potential machine containing this processor was leaked. The 3DMark entry lists the vendor of the device as Microsoft, which leads to speculation equally to whether or not the Ryzen 7 4800U may appear in the Surface Laptop four, or if the device tested is a separate entity. Considering Microsoft fabricated the movement to Ryzen with the Surface Laptop 3 with smashing success, chances are that Microsoft will move forrard with its partnership with AMD for the adjacent generation.

Despite the 3DMark entry, information technology's possible Microsoft could follow a similar route for the Surface Laptop iv as information technology did with the Surface Laptop three past releasing the new models with Surface-exclusive hardware. The Surface Laptop 3 was released with a more than powerful, modified variant of the Ryzen 7 3700U, dubbed as the Ryzen seven 3780U Microsoft Surface Edition. Both mobility chips are identical with the exception of the 'Surface Edition' chip having an boosted Vega compute unit for a full of eleven compared the the 3700U's ten compute units.

Ryzen vii 3700U/3780U Microsoft Surface Edition Specifications

Cores: 4
Threads: 8
Base Clock: ii.iii GHz
Boost Clock: iv.0 GHz
GPU Compute Units - 3780U: 11
GPU Compute Units - 3700U: ten
GPU Clock: 1400 MHz
GlobalFoundries 12nm FinFET

Ryzen seven 4800U/4880U Microsoft Surface Edition Specifications

Cores: viii
Threads: 16
Base of operations Clock: 1.8 GHz
Boost Clock: iv.2 GHz
GPU Compute Units - 4880U: 9
GPU Compute Units - 4800U: 8
GPU Clock: 1750 MHz
TSMC 7nm FinFET

If the Surface Laptop 4 does stop upward being powered past the Ryzen 7 4800U, we're looking at both cores and threads receiving double the number of its predecessor, equally well as the move to AMD's Zen 2 microarchitecture and TSMC's 7nm manufacturing process. The Vega iGPU, will receive a few benefits from higher clocked system RAM, and with the Ryzen 7 4800U, the memory controller is rated for a maximum of either DDR4-3200 or LPDDR4-4266, a vast improvement of the Ryzen vii 3780's DDR4-2400.

Eight cores in a laptop is certainly cipher to belittle at, and with AMD's formula, the Surface Laptop 4 volition undoubtedly receive an increase in performance along with efficiency improvements to increase bombardment life and lower thermals. Of course, the 4800U would exist a prissy processor to power the new Surface Laptop, but another Surface-exclusive processor like to concluding generation is much welcome. Just for comparison'due south sake, and to avoid ruling the possibility out completely, we'll call this hypothetical chip the Ryzen 7 4880U Microsoft Surface Edition.