AMD’s next ‘Lucienne’ APU chips seem to walk in the shadows. The Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5500U processors were recently discovered in the GeekBench database and provide some interesting data.
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5500U would have activated SMT
Two unannounced AMD Ryzen 5000U Series 5000U processors can be displayed in the GeekBench benchmarking tool.
Both chips belong to the Lucienne generation, designed under the Zen 2 silicon, which is an update of the Renoir chips (Ryzen 4000U) launched this year 2020. It is speculated that AMD plans to introduce its low-power Lucienne series based on Zen 2 and the Cezanne series based on Zen 3.
This processor is seen in GeekBench as an 8-core chip with 16 wires and a clock speed increase of 4.3 GHz. The big difference to the Renoir series is that Lucienne allows the SMT technology so that the number of threads can be doubled. Also the incremental clock frequency increases by about 200 MHz and also the number of GPU cores increases to a total of 8.
This should lead to a very interesting performance increase, especially for tasks that require multiple cores.
With SMT technology-enabled, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores and 12 threads running at a maximum clock frequency of 4.0 GHz. It will also have one more computing unit than its predecessor, the 4500U.
These chips will be launched next year and are expected to be announced during CES 2021. One of the first laptops to incorporate one of these Lucienne chips would be the Acer Aspire 5, and we will keep you informed.