AMD-Powered Microsoft Surface Device Spotted Online

[Andrew]

We may soon see Microsoft Surface devices with AMD Ryzen 4000 CPU options. That's based on a listing in the 3DMark 11 database spotted by hardware leaker @_rogame that shows a Surface sporting an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U APU and a AMD Radeon RX 5300M mobile graphics card.

The 3DMark 11 submission doesn't specify the exact model of the device's graphics card but points to 3GB of onboard memory. AMD currently has four Navi-based mobile graphics cards, and of those four, only the Radeon RX 5300M comes with 3GB of (GDDR6) memory.

 

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[ENTERPRISE]

Considering how far AMD have come in the CPU market, MS would be silly not to consider them so this is a nice turn of events and even better for AMD if they can continue to infiltrate MS devices which in the past have predominantly used Intel.

[Andrew]

It is nice that AMD is finally getting put in laptops. Intel has been dominating that market for what? 15 years now?