AMD’s Mobile Ryzen 9 4900U Listed by Lenovo

A video posted by Notebook Italia could have spilled the beans on a complete new tier for AMD’s cellular APUs. The video, which has since been taken down, confirmed Lenovo’s upcoming Yoga Slim 14, which was listed in its specs listing with an AMD Ryzen 9 4900U. Of course, the necessity for such an SKU is debatable: it is comparatively unlikely AMD would carry greater than Eight cores and 16 logical threads to the cellular panorama and its increased concern with autonomy reasonably than pure efficiency. Especially when one considers the actual Lenovo mannequin concerned: the Yoga lineup is not a lot related to final efficiency. However, there are desktop-replacement situations the place customers may positively wish to see a greater than 8-core CPU powering their machine.

That mentioned, this might merely be a better clocked 8-core (the Ryzen 7 4800U does characteristic a base 1.Eight GHz/as much as 4.2 GHz enhance clocks, so there’s room for enchancment). The Yoga Slim 14 the place the Ryzen 9 4900U was listed does solely weigh 1.1 Kg and has a quoted 11 hour battery life on the 4K display screen possibility (versus 14 hours on the FHD model). We’ll simply have to attend and see, with our pondering hats on. A typo is feasible, however arduous to make in each the bodily specs listing on the images, and on the official Lenovo web site. The indisputable fact that the unique video has since been edited with the specs listing obscured positively means one thing’s afoot. This is also one other AMD bullet for the cellular market, the place it has achieved its greatest share progress in latest instances.