oh no! could the Ryzen 5000 APU be merely a rebadge of Ryzen 4000 Renoir?

[Mr. Friendly]

Ryzen 5 5500U Implies Ryzen 4000 Refresh Isn't Far Off

Everything is falling into place.

www.tomshardware.com

that's the supposition based on how the 5500U specs are identical to the 4600U.

from a previous article, it was said that it looked like the Ryzen 5000 APU's would / could be both Renoir and Lucienne.

 

[djbrad]

I am still waiting about Cezanne.

 

[Mr. Friendly]

AMD's Ryzen 5000 APU lineup is a confusing mix of Zen 2 Lucienne and Zen 3 Cezanne parts

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 5000 APU lineup will be a mix of Zen 2 Lucienne (Renoir Refresh) and Zen 3 Cezanne parts probably with the intention of offering more value to OEMs and maximizing the utilization of the 7 nm node. So far, there is no direct way to demarcate both the architectures in the...

www.notebookcheck.net

this provides some clarity. Lucienne always was a refresh of Renoir on Zen 2 while Cezanne is the APU based on Zen 3.

Lucienne is the odd #'s part while Cezanne will be the even # part. Lucienne is essentially Renoir with SMT turned on and slightly higher GPU clock speeds. Cezanne is also running the same RX Vega 8 GPU as Lucienne, but Cezanne will have all the advantages of Vermeer, such as the shared L3 cache, etc.

Cezanne is going to be a premium part while Lucienne a more entry to mid-grade solution. it'll benefit from having SMT and a boost of about 200mhz over Renoir tho.