From PC World: If you’re in the market for a new Ryzen PC, beware: AMD is updating some of its old Ryzen processors with fresh branding and updated model numbers and passing them off as new processors.
AMD has carved out a number of “new” Ryzen 100-series chips alongside a pair of new Ryzen 10-series model numbers. However, the chips are apparently identical to a number of older Zen 2 and Zen 3+ processors announced years ago in 2022. The difference is that these new Ryzens “launched” in the past few weeks.
AMD is calling these new chips the Ryzen 7 170, the Ryzen 7 160, the Ryzen 5 150, the Ryzen 5 130, the Ryzen 3 110, and the Ryzen 5 40 and the Ryzen 3 30, 3Dcenter.org reported, citing a post from “Gray” on Twitter. The updated chips are simply rebadges of Zen 3+ (Rembrandt-R) and Zen 2 (Mendocino) chips that AMD had launched years earlier. The chip maker is calling them the “10-series” and “100-series” chips.
As far as I can tell, the new processors are exactly the same as the older versions, both of which appear on AMD’s website. For example, the “new” Ryzen 5 40 is listed as a “Mendocino” core with four cores, eight threads, 2MB of L2/4MB of L3 cache, and at speeds of up to 4.3GHz. It’s manufactured on a 6nm FINFET process at TSMC, so it’s not even a process shrink. It appears identical to the older Ryzen 5 7520U, which also appears on AMD’s site with what appears to be identical specifications.
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