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AMD’s 2025 laptop processor with eight Zen 4 cores.
According to AMD, the Ryzen 9 270 belongs to the Ryzen 200 series, codenamed Hawk Point. It has eight Zen 4 cores and 16 threads, a 4 GHz base clock and up to 5.2 GHz single-core boost, with 8 MB L2 and 16 MB L3 cache.
Default TDP is 45 W, and laptop makers can configure it between 35 and 54 W, so the same chip can sustain different performance in different chassis. It is built on TSMC 4 nm and AMD lists its launch date as 18 February 2025.
It includes 12-core Radeon 780M integrated graphics, DDR5-5600 or LPDDR5x-7500 memory support, PCIe 4.0 and up to two native USB4 (40 Gbit/s) controllers. Whether a laptop actually exposes a USB4 port depends on the maker’s port design.
Laptops · 2025
The TUF Gaming A16 (2025) is ASUS’s 16-inch TUF-series gaming laptop. The FA608UP configuration has a Zen 4-based Ryzen 9 270, an RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with up to 115 W, MUX and Advanced Optimus, upgradeable memory, two M.2 slots and a 90 Wh battery. Notebookcheck highlighted battery life and build; fan noise in Turbo mode was found loud.