Barcelo-R Ryzen 5 7530U brings Zen 3 into the mix for the messy AMD Ryzen 7000 mobile APU lineup

The AMD Ryzen 5 7530U has been spotted by @momomo_us on the SiSoftware official benchmark ranker, where the chip revealed its configuration. It is a 6-core, 12-thread part, according to the entry, with a probable base clock of 2 GHz and L2 and L3 caches of 512 kB (per core, so x6) and 16 MB total, respectively. The naming scheme for the Ryzen 5 7530U also reveals its family series name, microarchitecture, and intended use scenario.

So, according to AMD’s model numbers for 2023 processors and beyond, the newly spotted Ryzen 5 7530U is destined for mainstream thin and light laptops, so it has a bit more beef than the Mendocino chips that will be headed to “everyday computing” (i.e., “cheap”) devices, but it won’t offer the same power as a 7035 “Rembrandt-R” series chip. The Ryzen 5 7530U belongs to the Barcelo-R family (7030), and the “3” in the name indicates it uses Zen 3/Zen 3+ architecture.

That’s simple enough to understand if you follow AMD’s naming schemes, but it could be considered somewhat mystifying for future consumers, especially when the Ryzen 7000 mobile series currently consists of Zen 2-based parts and Zen 4 processors. Zen 2 Mendocino chips have already been unveiled (7520/7320/7220), while the Ryzen 5 7640U’s name clearly indicates it can boast of containing Zen 4 goodness. That latter part is a Phoenix family chip, with the high-end Dragon Range chips featuring 7045 model numbers.

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