AMD reveals Ryzen PRO 6000 series: for business, professional laptops

AMD has officially introduced the Ryzen PRO 6000 series which is for business and professional laptops, based on the Zen 3+ architecture.

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The new AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 series offers up to 8 cores and 16 threads of CPU power at up to 4.9GHz, on the new Zen 3+ architecture and TSMC 6nm process node. It packs an integrated GPU, with RDNA 2 graphics on-board and ready to rock and roll.

AMD is splitting the new Ryzen PRO 6000 series CPUs into the H-series and U-series families, with up to 35W with the HS chips and thinner laptops, while there's up to 45W with the U-series chips. The flagship Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H, packing 8C/16T @ up to 4.9GHz, with 20MB of L2+L3 cache and a 45W TDP.

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For battery life, you've got up to 29 hours of video playback (AMD's own claims) with the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U processor, which is a crazy amount of battery life. It's good to see AMD nailing the business and professional laptops with new CPUs that aren't chewing through power.