Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 will get last generation AMD Ryzen processors

Rumors about the upcoming Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 have not stopped for some time. They are expected to go on sale in April, and, accordingly, the presentation of the new products will take place in the very near future. Now information from retailers has appeared on the web, shedding light on the models of processors that will be used in Surface Laptop 4.

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According to these data, Intel versions of the laptop, not surprisingly, will be based on processors Core i5-1145G7 and Core i7-1185G7 generation Tiger Lake. And as for the models with AMD chips, it seems that users will have to settle for the previous generation processors. It is reported that Sarface Laptop 4 will be able to offer Ryzen 4000 processors, based on the architecture Zen 2, while on the market are already available laptops with Ryzen 5000 chips, based on the architecture Zen 3; It is assumed that, as in the case of Surface Laptop 3, AMD will give Microsoft exclusive versions of its chips for the new laptops, which will receive the prefix Microsoft Surface Edition to the name. Ryzen 5 4680U and Ryzen 7 4980U will reportedly be available to choose from.

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Another interesting point is that the maximum bundles of Surface Laptop on Intel will include 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, while the AMD versions will have up to 16GB of RAM and a maximum SSD capacity of 512GB. As for the design, Surface Laptop 4 is expected to retain the look of the previous model. However, it is now rumored that users will have 13-inch models based on AMD processors. In the case of Surface Laptop 3, only the 15-inch model is available to customers who want to buy a version with Ryzen.

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The laptop will be released in modifications with a display size of 13,5 and 15 inches diagonally. At the same time, each of the versions will be available with AMD and Intel processors: both variants have been tested in GeekBench. In particular, the Intel version carries on board the Core i5-1135G7 processor generation Tiger Lake. This chip contains four processing cores (eight instruction threads) with clock speeds up to 4.2 GHz. There is an Intel Iris Xe graphics gas pedal. The amount of RAM is 8 GB.

The tested variant on the AMD platform is equipped with the Ryzen 5 3580U Microsoft Surface Edition processor. This chip has four cores (eight threads), which can reach a frequency of 3.7 GHz. However, the GeekBench data indicates that the number of cores is six. Most likely, the test misidentified the name of the processor, because AMD already has Ryzen 5000-series mobile chips, where Ryzen 5 models have six cores. And it is unlikely that Microsoft will release a laptop on the outdated Ryzen 3000-series chip.

It is assumed that the Surface Laptop 4 will be identical in appearance to the Surface Laptop 3, which is shown in the first image. Handheld computers of the new generation, of course, will come with the operating system Windows 10;