AMD has just launched a new series of APUs, dubbed the Ryzen Pro 6000. The new chips are said to deliver outstanding battery life of up to 30 hours.
AMD’s latest releases are all made for professionals, as well as users who simply need top-notch performance from a laptop. The new chips are APUs, meaning they contain both the processor and the graphics card. The Ryzen 6000 Pro series is based on the 6nm Zen 3+ architecture combined with the latest RDNA 2 graphics, while the 5000 Pro series was built based on the 7nm Zen 3 process and comes with Vega graphics instead.
The Rembrandt-based 6000 Pro series will offer an improvement in both battery efficiency and overall performance compared to the Cezanne Ryzen Pro 5000 lineup. AMD promises to deliver a whopping 30 hours of battery life on laptops running the Ryzen 7 Pro 6850 APU, and this includes more than just the most basic tasks — AMD specifically mentioned video playback as well.
The 6850U is, unsurprisingly, the undeniable winner in these tests, which AMD conducted itself in a number of benchmark programs, including 3DMark for the GPU. The GPU performance of the APU has proven itself to be quite excellent, beating the Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U by 50% at the base power consumption level and by 110% at its maximum TDP. The CPU gains are not quite as substantial, but still notable.