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Surface Laptop 3 might use the powerful AMD Ryzen chips
« on: September 15, 2019, 04:07:36 PM »
Microsoft will introduce the Surface Laptop 3 in the 15-inch version as yesterday reported on the occasion of its hardware event in early October first introduce a notebook in this still extremely popular size. Now we know: the device AMD processors.

Still, there are some open questions about the new Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 15, are so far neither exact specifications nor first pictures before. For sure, however, due to a series of corresponding entries in non-public databases of European retailers, we are aware that the new Surface Laptop 3 15-inch model will definitely be equipped with AMD CPUs.

An example of an Ultrabook with Ryzen CPU: the Honor MagicBook Pro



This makes it the first product of the Surface series, in which Microsoft renounces the processors of its longtime partner Intel and instead uses chips from its archenemy AMD. On top of that, it is still a product that has not existed in this form at least at Microsoft so far, because so far was the Surface Book as the only device of the PC series from the development of Microsoft with a 15-inch display.

Great prestige win for AMD and its Ryzen processors

For AMD, the design-win at Microsoft certainly means a considerable gain in prestige, after all, the Redmond follow with their Surface series the claim to always create a kind of "lighthouse" product for each device category, each showing how the Software Group presents the best matching platform for its software and services around Windows 10.

According to the current state, we have encountered three AMD-based models of the Surface Laptop 3 with a 15-inch display, although this number may of course change. It is unclear which chips Microsoft wants to use concretely, but AMD has since the beginning of the year a surprisingly broad portfolio on offer, especially the AMD Ryzen 3000 series, which is distributed in the form of processors with a power loss of 15 or 35 watts.

Since the larger edition of the Surface Laptop 3 is a 15-inch model, which should probably offer maximum performance again, the AMD Ryzen 5 3550H and the Ryzen 7 3750H are also suitable. These are quad-core SoCs with integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega GPU, which offer maximum clock rates of 3.7 and 4.0 gigahertz and are manufactured in 12-nanometer scale. In terms of performance, the chips are about the same level as the 8th-generation Intel Core i7 SoC used in the last Surface series.

Of course, the Ryzen 3000 chips of the U series come into question, which comes along with a lower power loss. Whether the 13.5-inch version of the Surface Laptop 3 with AMD chips will be available, we still do not know - but is safe, according to our dealer data that this model will continue to be with Intel processors. It is still unclear whether Microsoft might also offer the 15-inch model, at least as an option, with Intel chips, but we do not have any relevant information yet. Instead, you put at least the new Surface Laptop 3 15 fully on AMD. AMD, Ryzen, ZenAMD

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