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AMD officially revealed Ryzen 6000 laptop CPUs at CES 2022, but we’ll have to wait until the Ryzen 7000 Series for new desktop processors.
AMD officially announced the Ryzen 6000th Series on 4th January 2022. There are 13 new mobile CPUs in total, focusing on both high-end machines and thin and light laptops. The first Ryzen 6000-powered devices are expected to be released in February. However, the Ryzen 6000 Series won’t include any desktop chips. They’ll be reserved for the Ryzen 7000 Series, which AMD confirmed is in development ahead of release in the second half of 2022. Despite being limited to mobile CPUs, there are a total of 13 different Ryzen 6000 processors to choose from. Several features are consistent across all of them, including a new 6nm process and tweaked Zen 3+ architecture. The Ryzen 6000 Series supports Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, alongside USB 4 – AMD says this can reach speeds of up to 40Gbps, enough to transfer a 4K movie in under 7 seconds.
You also get PCIe Gen 4, DDR5 and HDMI 2.1 support. AMD’s new RDNA 2 graphics architecture is supported by the Ryzen 6000 Series, meaning it’ll work with GPUs such as the new Radeon RX 6500 XT. Once again, the lineup is split into two distinct categories. A premium H-Series focuses on high-end gaming and content creation, while the U-Series is aimed at thin and light devices. AMD hasn’t adopted the hybrid design you’ll find on Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs, but it is expected to excel at both performance and power efficiency. The company claims the Ryzen 6000 is capable of up to 24 hours of battery life, but that will heavily depend on the other hardware it’s combined with. Unsurprisingly, AMD describes the top-spec Ryzen 9 6980HX as “the world’s best notebook processor”.
There were no direct comparisons to competitors during the keynote, but it supposedly offers a 28% performance boost over the Ryzen 5000 Series for productivity and multi-thread performance. The Ryzen 6000 Series also prioritizes security, becoming the first CPUs to support Microsoft’s Pluton chip.
