The Ryzen 8000 series of CPUs is probably one of the least exciting AMD releases in years. It doesn’t come with any tangible performance improvements compared to the older Ryzen 7000 chips, with the only big difference being the inclusion of an NPU for on-device AI processing. Still, it’s a current product, which means it’s slowly going to make its way to laptops made by all manufacturers. The latest laptop maker to upgrade its laptops to Ryzen 8000 is Acer, and its latest laptops look really good—if you don’t have one with Ryzen 7000, that is.
Acer introduced new models of the Acer Swift Edge 16 and Acer Swift Go 14 laptops. The big thing about these, as we hinted to before, is the fact that these come with Ryzen’s 8000-series processors. In this case, however, it might come pretty handy. The big difference between Ryzen 8000 and 7000 is that dedicated Ryzen AI NPU, and Acer has some AI features that look like they might actually take advantage of that NPU, such as Acer PurifiedVoice, Acer PurfiedView, and Acer LiveArt photo editing.
The Acer Swift Edge 16 AMD comes with up to a Ryzen 7 8840U octa-core processor, up to 32 GB of RAM, and up to 2 TB SSD storage, as well as a 16-inch OLED display that offers exceptional visual clarity. The Swift Go 14, on the other hand, is powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS octa-core processor as well as AMD Radeon 780M graphics, up to 32 GB of memory and up to 2 TB SSD storage. We also get features such as a 2.8K OLED display and a 100W battery with quick-charging capabilities.
As we said before, if you currently have a Ryzen 7000 laptop, this won’t be worth the upgrade. The silicon is otherwise identical, and you will not be getting any notable hardware performance improvements. However, Acer does seem to have some AI stuff of its own, and with Copilot taking more and more of a protagonist role on Windows, it might come in handy later on.
The laptops are available from $699.99 for the Go 14 and $1,299.99 for the Edge 16, and they will be available in store shelves by April. There aren’t product listings yet, so you’ll have to keep an eye on Acer’s website or your retail store of choice.
Source: Acer
