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AMD Lists Ryzen 7030-Series Mobile Processors

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While we already know that AMD plans to offer CPUs based on different microarchitectures in its Ryzen 7000-series processors for laptops, AMD has refrained from publicly listing its Zen 3-based Ryzen 7000-series CPUs. But in a new document covering a Spectre Variant 2 vulnerability, it formally mentioned its Ryzen 7030-series and Ryzen Pro 7030-series mobile processors (via @komachi_ensaka ).

AMD disclosed back in September that starting from its Ryzen 7000-series processors for laptops and onwards, it would market CPUs based on different microarchitectures within one family to offer a broader range of products for various performance needs and price ranges. As a result, the Ryzen 7000 lineup of notebook processors will include models based on AMD's Zen 2, Zen 3, and Zen 4 microarchitectures.

In fact, the company already lists entry-level Ryzen 3 7320U and Ryzen 5 7520U processors featuring Zen 2 cores on its website. The company will also offer Zen 3-powered Ryzen 7030-series 'Rembrandt' CPUs with Zen 3 and RDNA 2 graphics for midrange laptops. The highest-end Dragon Range and Phoenix APUs will belong to the Ryzen 7040 family and will pack Zen 4 CPU cores as well as (presumably) RDNA 3-based graphics units.

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Meanwhile, AMD's new model number scheme for mobile CPUs is quite complicated, making it hard to guess the performance of a processor based solely on things like belonging to its family, formal positioning, and microarchitecture. As always, the best way to find out the performance of a particular CPU is to check out its independent evaluation.

As for the Spectre Variant 2 -class potential vulnerabilities known as the CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2022-23824, it apparently affects all AMD pre-Zen 4 processors for desktops, laptops, and servers, according to the AMD document. To mitigate the issue, an OS or Hypervisor update is required.

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Anton Shilov is a Freelance News Writer at Tom’s Hardware US. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.