AMD is planning to launch refreshed “Ryzen 200” series APUs based on the Hawk Point lineup to target the entry-level laptop segment.
AMD’s Upcoming Hawk Point Refresh “Ryzen 200” APUs To Tackle Intel’s Raptor Lake Refresh “Core 200” CPUs
Team Red is quite fond of introducing a refresh of its existing CPU lineup in an attempt to offer more “appealing” SKUs to the markets and fill in the performance gap present within the budget segment. For those unaware, AMD’s Phoenix lineup, which was probably one of the most popular ones, saw a refresh: the Ryzen 8000 series “Hawk Point” APUs. The most notable change in this refresh was the upgraded NPU, offering up to 16 TOPS.
Now, as revealed earlier and now according to a leak by Golden Pig Upgrade Pack on Weibo (via Olrak_29), AMD plans to introduce a Hawk Point refresh APU lineup under the Ryzen 200 naming scheme, based on the same Zen 4 architecture, with minimal changes expected.
The leak doesn’t disclose much about potential features or performance, apart from the fact that one of the variants in the lineup is the “Ryzen 7 255H”, which is likely a refresh of the existing “Hawk Point” Ryzen 7 8745HS APU. It is an SKU that launched a few months ago that came with no NPU onboard, The leak claims that the rumored Ryzen 7 255H is set to compete directly with Intel’s Core Ultra 7 255H, hence not might AMD make the overall naming scheme confusing, but identical to Intel at the same time.
- AMD’s Ryzen 7 255H – (Ryzen 7 8745HS Refresh)
- AMD’s Ryzen 7 265H – (Ryzen 7 8845HS Refresh)
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