We saw ASUS launching a bunch of AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 processor powered products two weeks ago. They were not the only ones jumping the gun before AMD themselves make their products known to the South East Asian market though. Acer did too with a new Acer Swift 3 powered by an AMD Ryzen 5-4500U.

Today, we see even more products that is supposed to be powered by AMD’s line up of the more powerful AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 series CPUs. But a little bit about the AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 series before we look into the line-up we are hopefully getting from manufacturers. They are more than just an upgrade from the Ryzen Mobile 3000 series line-up.

AMD has been on a roll since they started with the Ryzen platform in the CPU world. They caused a little bit of a stir in the PC building community with the Ryzen platform and architecture. The AMD Ryzen platform is also the first CPU platform to introduce 7nm processing into the fold of PC CPUs. The competition is still at 12nm mind you, even today. Smaller, in this case, is better.

While the previous AMD Ryzen platforms were playing a little bit of catch up with the best that Intel has to offer, the 3000-generation changed that. This generation of CPUs also comes in a Mobile guise, a CPU designed for notebook PCs. That goes directly against Intel’s U and H series CPUs too.

The AMD Ryzen Mobile 3000 CPUs proved to people that notebook PCs do not have to be limited in power for work and gaming. They can be reasonably competitive in power while maintaining mobility and portability. All this also while costing less than both its competition and its desktop counterparts. Of course, being a mobile processor there are some compromises to ensure that battery life is sustained, heat controlled, and power consumption curbed.

Still, the AMD Ryzen Mobile 3000 CPUs is prove that AMD knows what they are doing and that they are back to take the world by storm. In plenty of benchmarks, they have the upper edge on their competition. They are also fitting higher core counts in a single CPU than ever before, giving the PCs more power and more capabilities in both gaming and productivity spectrum. In most of the cases for productivity, the AMD Ryzen Mobile 3000 proves to be more powerful than its direct competition at that time. There is some lack of pace in gaming generally, but they are not as far apart as night and day.

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The new AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 is a statement that AMD can make even better processors than what was thought possible. The new processors are 7nm manufactured processors. This makes them the most advanced notebook PC CPUs around today.

Of course, just having more advanced stuff is not enough. The new processors should also be more powerful. That has been delivered with the AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 series. They pack significantly more power than before as well. That was evident in their benchmarks against the older generation competing processors and against the newer generation ones as well.

There is a case of “win some, lose some” here though. In most games though, the AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 series is now about on par or slightly more powerful than the current outgoing line-up of their competition’s 12nm CPU. In the cases of productivity software like Blender, or Adobe Premiere Pro, the AMD’s are still clear winners. The Ryzen 5 in the 4000 generation can also apparently easily processor and edit 4K files, a far cry from the Ryzen 5 of the 3000-generation AMD Ryzen Mobiles.

There are more numbers to explain the improvements they made to the new AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000. They are very good points too, in terms of what they have improved. We are not going to explain what each number means though. What you need to now about the new AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 series is that you should really consider it as a contender in your shopping list if you are looking for a new notebook PC.

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The new AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 series is more powerful than ever whilst being a lot more efficient in power consumption. On paper, the competition might fare better in power consumption, but there are hardly any PCs that can match its quoted power consumption figure as well, so we always take that with a pinch of salt. The new AMD processors for notebook PCs are also about on par or slightly more powerful than its competition technically and they are slightly more future proof. The most important thing though, is that they are more affordable than the competition.

We have seen offerings from ASUS for AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 powered rigs. We have seen one device from Acer that is powered by an AMD Ryzen 5-4500U CPU as well in Malaysia. Dell is fitting the potent CPU in their Dell Gaming G15, which is yet to be released in Malaysia. Lenovo’s 500 series Legion notebook PCs are also touted to come with the latest AMD CPU this year. We are expecting to see some consumer level budget notebook PC from HP and of course MSI will not miss out on the gaming boat with their offering to be revealed later in the year. There are no confirmations on the products that they teased. We only know that ASUS has already brought in their line-up of gaming notebooks and productivity notebook PCs with AMD CPUs.