According to a source, the lineup of Ryzen 4000 hybrid processors, which AMD is about to announce next Tuesday, will consist of six models. Three models will be assigned to the PRO series: they will offer 4, 6, and 8 computing cores, integrated Vega graphics, a set of “professional” functions for ensuring security, and a 65 W thermal package. The other three models will be included in the number of energy-efficient solutions with a thermal package of 35 W: it will also feature models with 4, 6, and 8 cores and a Vega graphics core, but the clock speeds will be noticeably lower.

The supposed formal characteristics of the representatives of the Renoir family for desktop systems are as follows.

The Ryzen 4000 APUs are of great interest to enthusiasts, although they are based on last year’s Zen 2 microarchitecture. Due to their monolithic design, these processors provide higher frequencies of the Infinity Fabric and are more favorable for memory overclocking. As the results of preliminary tests that leak onto the Web show, the computing performance of the senior member of the family, the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G, maybe comparable to the Ryzen 7 3700X.

However, one cannot count on the appearance of such processors in the general sale. With the release of the Renoir family of desktop processors, AMD is going to solve a completely different problem. With their help, she wants to shake the hegemony of Intel in the OEM segment, where processors with an integrated graphics core are primarily in demand.

Since the beginning of this year, the Renoir processor design has been used in the AMD Ryzen 4000 series mobile chips, which are widely used in modern laptops. Such processors are built on the architecture of Zen 2 and are equipped with a graphics core Vega. Their production is carried out at TSMC facilities using a 7-nm process technology. In the desktop segment, AMD is currently offering the Picasso family of APUs based on the Zen + architecture. When the Renoir desktop processors will become available to the mainstream, it is still unknown.