Why doesn’t the Surface Laptop 4 have the latest Ryzen processors?

Microsoft and AMD have continued their partnership to develop Surface Edition processors based on the AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile processor generation.

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 offers a rare opportunity for benchmarking nerds: a chance to test rival AMD Ryzen and Intel Core processors in the same device. But unlike with our AMD/Intel CPU comparison using the Surface Laptop 3, this time it’s an unfair fight: in the Surface Laptop 4, Intel’s latest 11th-gen Core Tiger Lake processors take on AMD’s older Ryzen 4000 Mobile processors, instead of the company’s latest Ryzen Mobile 5000 chips.

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