An AMD Ryzen 9 4900U? Is AMD planning another 8 core APU for laptops?

[Redaktion]

Thought you knew what AMD was planning for its Renoir processors? Better known as the Ryzen 4000 series, AMD has already confirmed Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 4000U SKUs. However, there is now evidence of there being a Ryzen 9 chip, specifically the Ryzen 9 4900U. A mere typo, perhaps? Well, that seems unlikely too.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/An-AMD-Ryzen-9-4900U-Is-AMD-planning-another-8-core-APU-for-laptops.453070.0.html

[Joel]

Additional CUs, perhaps.  The 3700U had 10 CUs while the 4800U has 8.

I'd really like a 4900U with 11 CUs and a TDPup of 25W.

[Ray-Dr.]

Imagine a 16core 4900u  ;D ;D ;D

[fdsofldmos]

Maybe it has 64 cores. At 500Mhz.

[william blake]

i smell a shitty branding scheme, nothing more.
9----16 threads
7-----16 threads
5------12 threads
5-------6 threads

[Nullen]

Additional CUs, perhaps.  The 3700U had 10 CUs while the 4800U has 8.

I'd really like a 4900U with 11 CUs and a TDPup of 25W.

Those CUs are different, much higher clock speeds, so 8 will be faster than 11 from last gen.
Buy yeah, it can work that way, last gen they did 3780u surface edition APU with better graphics.