AMD Launches AMD Ryzen 5000 C-Series Processors for Chromebook
In AMD’s current notebook CPU product line, there is a special C suffix series, which is AMD’s design for ultra-low-power devices such as Google Chromebooks. However, after the launch of the Ryzen 3000C series in 2017, AMD did not keep updating every generation synchronously. Until now the Ryzen 6000 series were sold, and AMD came back to launch the Ryzen 5000 C series of notebook CPUs.“AMD is raising the performance bar for modern Chromebooks,” said Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, Client business unit, AMD. “With up to eight cores, the Ryzen 5000 C-Series processors give Chromebook users the flexibility to stay unplugged all day without sacrificing performance and productivity.”
There is nothing special about this Ryzen 5000 C series. From the specification point of view, they are only limited to 15W by default TDP, and other aspects are basically the same as the Ryzen 5000U, including Zen 3 architecture, TSMC 7nm FinFET process, and Radeon Graphics GPU and other features, but there are four SKUs, the Ryzen 7 5825C with 8 cores and 16 threads, the Ryzen 5 5625C with 6 cores and 12 threads, the Ryzen 3 5425C with 4 cores and 8 threads, and the Ryzen 3 5125C with 2 cores and 4 threads.
Although this is not AMD’s latest notebook CPU, the 8-core 16-thread specification on a Chromebook is amazing. At present, most of the Chromebooks on the market use Intel’s 4-core or even dual-core CPU, and the GPU part is still the old Vega architecture, and the graphics performance is at an average level. Although Google has started adding a Steam client to Chromebooks not long ago, hoping to provide users with basic game-playing capabilities, the Ryzen 5000C should not be of great help in this matter.
Of course, battery life is the most important requirement for Chromebooks. AMD advertises that the Ryzen 5 5625C with 15W TDP has nearly double the battery life compared to the rival i5-1135G7 with 28W. So in general, AMD’s low-power notebook CPUs are still very advantageous, but the only Chromebooks released at the same time are HP’s Elite C645 G2 and Acer’s Chromebook Spin 514. There are still too few model choices, so AMD may have to work harder on the OEM side.
