AMD Brings Back Zen 2 With Ryzen 4700LE 8-Core CPU
It's hard to put a good thing down, and though the world has moved several generations beyond AMD's Zen 2, current shortages have brought it back in surprising fashion. AMD has effectively launched a new Zen 2 CPU for desktop in 2026: the Ryzen 7 4700LE.
This 8-core, 16-thread CPU is based on the Zen 2 architecture, with a modest 4.2GHz boost clock and just 8MB of L3 cache. These specifications are pedestrian for this era of hardware, where Zen 5 CPUs are pushing 6GHz and with over 100MB of cache in the case of the X3D models.
But it's here anyway and already showing up in gaming systems, of all places. Wccftech showcasesa pre-built gaming PC from a company called Qehi on Amazon. It's fitted with an RTX 3050 8GB GPU, 16GB of DDR4 memory, a half-terabyte SSD, and indeed, the AMD Ryzen 7 4700LE—although it's pitched...
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