At its CES 2021 keynote, AMD has announced its new Ryzen 5000 mobile CPUs. Most (but not all) of them are based on the company’s 7nm “Zen 3” architecture. AMD CEO Lisa Su called the series “the most powerful PC processors ever built.”
As with the previous generation, the 5000 line has two categories for two very different audiences. There’s the H-series — which you’ll find in laptops intended for gaming and content creation — and the U-series, meant for ultraportable notebooks. (Three of the U-series chips are based on the older Zen 2 architecture, which is a bit annoying.)
Within those categories are the Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5, Ryzen 7, and Ryzen 9 tiers (loose counterparts to Intel’s Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9, respectively). The…