According to a report by the German news site WinFuture, Microsoft’s new Surface 4 Laptop – due to debut in April – will offer options for AMD and Intel processors side by side.
With the 2020 Surface Laptop 3, only the larger 15-inch model had an AMD option – the smaller 13.5-inch version was only from Intel. But this year, with Surface Laptop 4, WinFuture says that the Ryzen 5 4680U and Ryzen 7 4980U “Surface Edition” CPUs – slightly modified for Microsoft’s vertical integration – will be available on the 13.5-inch Surface laptops as well.
Both Ryzen processors include integrated Vega graphics, and Surface models are expected to include RAM up to 16GiB and SSD up to 512GB – although no word yet on whether the latter two will be sockets or welded. These Ryzen models will compete with the Tiger Lake Intel i5-1145G7 and i7-1185G7 CPUs with Iris Plus 950 graphics card; Tiger Lake models are expected to offer up to 32GiB RAM and 1TB SSD.
We must emphasize that this is still a rumor so far – this information is based only on a specification sheet that WinFuture claims to have received from an unidentified reseller. Assuming the rumors are spreading, this is good news for anyone who wants a heavier multicore punch on a new Surface Laptop.