Best Laptops with Ryzen 2700U / 2500U APU and AMD Radeon Vega

When Ryzen Mobile launched, AMD announced three primary partners with three devices: the HP Envy x360, the Acer Swift 3, and the Lenovo Ideapad 720S. Here are the currently known Best Laptops with Ryzen 2700U and 2500U Mobile APUs which are either released or coming soon. I’ll be sharing a list of them with you below.

First of all before we move ahead, I wanna explain to new comers, about 2700U or 2500U. Basically they’re new mobile core processors (APU) designed by AMD. Specifications of both are shown below.

	Cores/ threads	Base clock (GHz)	Boost clock (GHz)	GPU compute units	GPU peak clock	L3 cache	TDP	RAM support
Ryzen 7 2700U	4/8	2.2	3.8	10	1300 MHz	4MB	15W	Two channels DDR4-2400
Ryzen 5 2500U		2.0	3.6	8	1100 MHz

 

Laptops with Ryzen 2700U and 2500U with Radeon Vega Graphics

So, if you’re looking for laptop with, either of these APUs, then you’ve come to the right place.

1. HP ENVY x360

The Model HP ENVY X360 has 2500U and is currently available to buy from their main website.
Price: 749.99$

2. Acer Swift 3 

AMD’s 15 W Ryzen Mobile APUs 15.6” IPS Ryzen Mobile 2500U or Ryzen Mobile 2700U VEGA 8 or VEGA 10

Acer announced two laptops, one with 2500U and other with 2700U. Price and details are released yet no confirmation on when they’ll be available to market.

Thanks to AnandTech, I was able to get this info.

		SF315-41-R8PP NX.GV7AA.003	SF315-41-R6J9 NX.GV7AA.004
Display	Diagonal	15.6″
	Resolution	1920×1080
	Type	IPS
CPU		AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4 Cores with SMT (8T) 2.0 GHz Base 3.8 GHz Turbo mXFR Support 2 MB L2 + 4 MB L3 Vega 8 iGPU 15 W	AMD Ryzen 7 2700U 4 Cores with SMT (8T) 2.2 GHz Base 3.8 GHz Turbo mXFR Support 2 MB L2 + 4 MB L3 Vega 10 iGPU 15 W
Graphics		AMD Vega 8 512 stream processors 1100 MHz	AMD Vega 10 640 stream processors 1300MHz
RAM	Capacity	8 GB
	Type	DDR4 (frequency unknown)
Storage		256 GB SSD	512 GB SSD
Wi-Fi		802.11ac Wi-Fi module (unknown vendor)
Bluetooth		4.x
USB		2 × USB 3.0 Type-A 1 × USB 2.0 Type-A 1 × USB 3.0 Type-C
Other I/O		HDMI 2.0a, webcam, TRRS connector for audio, speakers, microphone, SD card reader
Dimensions	Height	18.8 mm | 0.74″
	Width	370.5 mm | 14.59″
	Depth	255 mm | 10.04″
Weight		2.2 kg | 4.85 lb
Battery Capacity		3320 mAh (58 Wh at 17.4V?)
Price		$750	$950

 

3. Lenovo IDEAPAD 720S

Out of these information, nothing is confirmed yet about when it will be available to market. Considering others, it will be out soon or already on its way.

Prices of 720 APUs models are not available yet. But, considering Intel based models, core i5 is available of 979.99$ and Core i7 is available of 1409.99$. AMD’s APUs models will also have similar price range.