Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 could disappoint with older AMD hardware

It looks more and more likely that Microsoft’s long-awaited Surface Laptop 4 could be using an outdated AMD processor. A leaked benchmark for a computer using a so-called ‘Surface Edition’ CPU suggests we could be stuck with a Ryzen 4000 series chip, and not newer 5000 series ones.

The UserBenchmark entry was spotted for an unknown PC using an ‘AMD Ryzen 7 Microsoft Surface Edition’, with an integrated ‘RX Vega 8 4000’ – the generation of graphics used by the older Ryzen 4000 CPUs.

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