AMD Brings Zen 3 CPU Architecture to Chromebooks With Ryzen 5000 C-Series
AMD is paving the way for more powerful Chromebooks by bringing its Zen 3 architecture to the Google-powered laptops.
The result is the Ryzen 5000 C-Series chips, which will start arriving in Chromebooks slated to launch in June and July.
The most powerful chip in the family is the Ryzen 7 5825C, which AMD claims is the world’s first high-performance 8-core x86 processor for Chromebooks. It features a max boost speed of 4.5GHz, 20MB of cache, and eight built-in GPU cores.
The new CPU family represents a sizable upgrade from the Ryzen and Athlon 3000 C-Series from two years ago, which were built on the older Zen+ and Zen architecture and featured only 6MB or 5MB of cache.
“We knew we wanted to bring the most performance in a Chromebook to market. So we are bringing up to eight high-performance cores to this space,” says Robert Hallock, AMD's director of technical marketing.
The 5000 C-Series will mainly end up in premium Chromebooks with top-of-the-line features, Hallock adds. AMD also provided benchmarks that show the Ryzen 7 5825C outperforming the older 3000 C-Series, especially on multi-tasking and with graphics performance.
The company also compared the Ryzen 7 5825C to Intel’s “Tiger Lake” four-core i7-1185G7 processor, which launched in 2020 and has been used in some high-end Chromebook models. The benchmarks show the Ryzen 7 5825C can offer up to 7% and 25% improvement in web browsing and multitasking, respectively, which doesn’t seem like a lot.
But according to AMD, the Ryzen 5000 C-Series will draw far less power than Intel’s competing chips. One benchmark from the company showed the Ryzen 5 5625C offered up to a 94% improvement in battery life over Intel’s i5-1135G7, another Chromebook processor.
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