Acer Aspire 5 A515 powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Lucienne APU shows up early on Amazon Italy for €779

[Redaktion]

An Acer Aspire 5 powered by the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Lucienne APU has popped-up on Amazon Italy. The laptop features a 15.6-inch FHD display, 8 GB RAM, and a 512 GB PCIe SSD. The chassis and port selection seem to be unchanged from the previous generation. Though now listed as not available, the laptop was initially indicated to be priced at €779.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-5-A515-powered-by-AMD-Ryzen-7-5700U-Lucienne-APU-shows-up-early-on-Amazon-Italy-for-EUR779.502294.0.html

[heffeque]

So no news, since the 5700U is basically a rebranded 4800U with a slight clock boost.

[Vaidyanathan]

So no news, since the 5700U is basically a rebranded 4800U with a slight clock boost.

Yeah those Zen 2 parts will be rebranded with SMT enabled.

[scineram]

Disappointed with AMD doing this customer fraud.

[neblogai]

Whole lineup reconfigured to offer more CPU threads at each tier, more CUs, and higher clocks. That, plus it is likely to be a different revision of the silicon, and have an updated microcode for better power efficiency and performance too.