In case you wondered whether it's possible to quickly distinguish between an AMD-based laptop running the latest Ryzen 7000-series CPUs featuring the Zen 4 microarchitecture and notebooks powered by the Zen 2 or Zen 3 microarchitectures, it is. Apparently, systems with the latest Zen 4-based Ryzen 7040/7045-series CPUs inside carry an orange sticker, whereas PCs that use processors featuring previous-generation designs carry a gray sticker, AMD's new marketing deck reveals.
When AMD introduced its latest model numbering system for Ryzen 7000-series processors for notebooks, it disclosed that the new Ryzen 7000 family will include CPUs based on the latest Zen microarchitecture as well as processors powered by the previous-generation Zen 3 and even Zen 2 microarchitecture. The lineup will also include APUs with integrated GPUs featuring the Vega, RDNA 2, and RDNA 3 architectures, making things even more confusing.
