Last year, AMD relied on its excellent architecture to change players’ established impressions of AMD laptops, making AMD processors also stand out in the laptop market and making considerable progress in market share. This year AMD still brings powerful laptop processors. Although due to the epidemic, the supply of many chips has been affected, and many people still have difficulty buying their favorite laptops. However, AMD processors no longer have a big gap in performance and publicity as in the past, but have been unanimously praised by players. Although the HS series laptop processors that have had a good reputation since last year are very good, this year AMD plans to launch stronger processors based on the HS series, that is, the Creator Edition series processors. According to information leaked by the tipster, AMD will launch two Creator Edition processors, R9 5900HS and R7 5800HS. Both processors have better performance and higher clock speeds than the non-Creator Edition versions of the same processors. More importantly, AMD has chosen to start with the Creator Edition version, ending the tradition of HS series laptop processors being used exclusively by ASUS. In this leak, you can see that the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro will also launch the Creator Edition version of AMD laptops:
▲ASUS ROG Flow X13 laptop uses R9 5900HS processor, which is one of the laptops currently equipped with AMD HS series processors
According to two whistleblowers, momomo_us and KOMACHI_ENSAKA, who broke the news on Twitter, it can be known that AMD has set a higher clock speed for the Creator Edition. More importantly, this information was dug out from Lenovo’s product content. First of all, it can be confirmed that AMD will no longer hand over the HS series processors to Asus for exclusive use. This may mean that AMD’s recent problems with production capacity and chip supply have been alleviated, or that the contract between AMD and Asus has expired, and other manufacturers have taken the opportunity to negotiate good terms with AMD, which has led to the results we are seeing now.
AMD’s laptop processors have different suffixes depending on their positioning, including H, HS, HX, U, etc. Each has its own position. Among them, the HS series has been promoted through ASUS, and many consumers have realized that AMD’s level of processors are not only admirable in terms of performance, but also have excellent power consumption control performance, making them even suitable for use in thin notebooks. Therefore, this year’s Ryzen 5000 HS series has also been eagerly anticipated by many laptop gamers. But in fact, in addition to the Ryzen 5000 HS series, the Creator Edition derived from this series may be good news for laptop users who need a high-performance platform:
▲The Ryzen 5000 HS series will also have stronger processor models and will be called the Creator Edition special version (Image source）
The information currently exposed is mainly about the new processor that is confirmed for the Yoga Slim 7 Pro laptop. Judging from the configuration of the laptop, it is known that Lenovo may launch this model of laptop in the European and Asian markets. As for the US market, there is currently no more information to support this. What is certain at this stage is that AMD will hand over its Creator Edition processors to Lenovo and Asus to launch notebook products, but whether more notebook manufacturers will join in is still an interesting question:
▲The first one to use the Creator Edition processor is actually not ASUS, which is currently supposed to use this model exclusively, but Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7 Pro (Image source）
▲Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro will have two Creator Edition processors, R9 5900HS and R7 5800HS (Image source）
▲Lenovo mentioned in the promotional image that the Creator Edition processor will have better performance (Image source）
Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7 Pro is expected to be equipped with 16GB LPDDR4X-4266 memory and up to 1TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, and the GPU part will use GeForce MX450. Judging from these specifications, the main selling point of Yoga Slim Pro 7 will be in the use case of content creators, rather than the e-sports use mainly targeted by students. As for the screen, Yoga Slim 7 Pro will be equipped with a 14-inch screen with 400 nit brightness and 90Hz refresh rate.
Source: KOCPC Chinese