If you’re in the market for a new Ryzen PC, beware: AMD is updating some of its old Ryzen processors with fresh branding and updated model numbers and passing them off as new processors.

AMD has carved out a number of “new” Ryzen 100-series chips alongside a pair of new Ryzen 10-series model numbers. However, the chips are apparently identical to a number of older Zen 2 and Zen 3+ processors announced years ago in 2022. The difference is that these new Ryzens “launched” in the past few weeks.

AMD is calling these new chips the Ryzen 7 170, the Ryzen 7 160, the Ryzen 5 150, the Ryzen 5 130, the Ryzen 3 110, and the Ryzen 5 40 and the Ryzen 3 30, 3Dcenter.org reported , citing a post from “Gray” on Twitter . The updated chips are simply rebadges of Zen 3+ (Rembrandt-R) and Zen 2 (Mendo

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