Announced AMD Ryzen Pro 6000 Series CPUs for Business Laptops, Promising Performance and Security
AMD has announced new details about the Ryzen Pro 6000 Series laptop CPUs as well as the refreshed Ryzen Pro 5000 models, all geared towards business users. This follows their first showcase at CES 2022, alongside the standard Ryzen 6000 CPUs for consumer laptops. The new Ryzen Pro 6000 series CPUs are based on the ‘Zen 3+’ architecture and feature integrated GPUs built using the RDNA2 architecture. Efficiency is a big driver with this generation, manufactured on the 6nm process. AMD is touting all-day battery life and state-of-the-art connectivity and manageability standards that will appeal to IT managers who currently have to meet the demands of work. from far away.
The new Ryzen Pro 6000 models are largely equivalent to Ryzen 6000 mobile CPU for popular laptops already announced. AMD says its “business-ready” CPUs are typically shipped to OEMs for 24 months with an 18-month commitment to software stability, enhanced quality assurance, and an ongoing validation process to ensure guarantee stability. AMD worked with Microsoft to implement platform-level security capabilities including Microsoft Pluton Framework. OEM-grade security measures can also be implemented, such as Lenovo’s ThinkShield and HP’s Sure Start for recovery and management.
HP and Lenovo the fact that among AMD’s launch partners, as well as Asus, Cherry and Dell. Lenovo has announced the ThinkPad Z13 and ThinkPad Z16 with exclusive use of AMD’s Ryzen Pro CPUs including the exclusive Ryzen 7 Pro 6860Z model. The companies say they worked together to co-design and build these laptops for maximum efficiency.
The lineup spans AMD’s H-series and U-series product levels, featuring 35-45W and 28W heatsink designs for entry-level and high-performance mobile notebook designs. The top-end Ryzen 9 Pro 6950H has eight multi-threaded CPU cores, a maximum clock speed of 4.9GHz, and 20MB of total cache. Even the base Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U has six cores and 12 threads with a boost clock speed of 4.5GHz.
The newly announced Ryzen Pro 5000 models all have 15W TDPs and come with four, six, or eight cores. However, they use the older Zen 3 architecture. These will likely show up in cheaper laptops.
Power efficiency improvements have been made possible through the Zen 3+ core architecture, 6nm manufacturing process, new chip-level and base-level power states, and new firmware enhancements. LPDDR5 RAM support and lower power consumption displays with panel self-refreshing technology will help OEMs advertise better battery life than ever before. AMD claims to use up to 35% less power for video conferencing and up to 32% less for video transmission; Both use cases are growing, though exact usage conditions and hardware will influence these metrics.
Laptop availability will depend on the OEM, although a launch date will be announced in the near future.
