AMD announces APU 'Ryzen 6000' series for notebook PCs with improved game performance



AMD announced the APU 'Ryzen 6000' series for notebook PCs that adopted architectures such as Zen 3+ and RDNA 2 on January 4, 2022 (Tuesday). In addition, it is also announced that the next-generation architecture 'Zen 4' produced by the 5nm process rule will appear in the latter half of 2022.

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◆ APU 'Ryzen 6000' series for notebook PCs
AMD CEO Lisa Su tweeted an announcement of the online event on Monday, January 3, 2022. The tweet included a photo of CEO Sue holding a chip, and expectations were high for the announcement of a new processor.




Then, Sue announced the APU 'Ryzen 6000' series for notebook PCs that integrated CPU and GPU at the online event 'AMD 2022 Product Premiere' held on January 4, 2022 (Tuesday). The CPU installed in the Ryzen 6000 uses the Zen 3+ architecture, and the GPU uses the RDNA 2 architecture. In addition, it has been revealed that it will be produced according to TSMC's 6nm process rule.



Among the Ryzen 6000 series announced this time, the top model 'AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX' has a maximum boost clock of 5.0 GHz, 1.3 times the calculation speed and 2 times the graphics processing compared to the previous generation APU. It is said that it has become faster.



Furthermore, by installing the same RDNA 2 architecture as the desktop graphic board '

Radeon RX 6000 ' series on the GPU, it is appealing that it will demonstrate higher gaming performance than the mobile GPU of rival companies such as Intel and NVIDIA.



The specifications of the 10 types of Ryzen 6000 series APU announced are as follows.

model Graphics Number of CPU cores Number of threads Maximum boost clock Basic clock Number of GPU cores Standard TDP
AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX AMD Radeon 680M 8 16 16 5.0GHz 3.3GHz 12 45W
AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS AMD Radeon 680M 8 16 16 5.0GHz 3.3GHz 12 35W
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX AMD Radeon 680M 8 16 16 4.9GHz 3.3GHz 12 45W
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS AMD Radeon 680M 8 16 16 4.9GHz 3.3GHz 12 35W
AMD Ryzen 7 6800H AMD Radeon 680M 8 16 16 4.7GHz 3.2GHz 12 45W
AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS AMD Radeon 680M 8 16 16 4.7GHz 3.2GHz 12 35W
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Radeon 680M 8 16 16 4.7GHz 2.7GHz 12
AMD Ryzen 5 6600H AMD Radeon 660M 6 12 4.5GHz 3.3GHz 6 45W
AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS AMD Radeon 660M 6 12 4.5GHz 3.3GHz 6 35W
AMD Ryzen 5 6600U AMD Radeon 660M 6 12 4.5GHz 2.9GHz 6


◆ 'Ryzen 7000' series equipped with Zen 4 architecture
In October 2021, AMD Chief Marketing Officer John Taylor and Technical Marketing Director Robert Hallock announced that the 'Zen 4' series will appear in 2022 in Ryzen's 5th anniversary video. Was revealed.

Next-generation Ryzen processor based on Zen4 architecture will be released in 2022 --GIGAZINE



And in this announcement, Sue announced that the 'Ryzen 7000' series of desktop PC processors equipped with 'Zen 4' that adopts the 5nm process rule will be released in the latter half of 2022.



◆ 'Ryzen 7 5800X3D' equipped with a large capacity 3D V-Cache memory
In the above-mentioned 'Ryzen 5th Anniversary Video', the appearance of 'Processor equipped with 64MB 3D Vertical Cache (3D V-Cache) memory' is also announced, and in this announcement, 64MB 3D V- It was announced that the 'Ryzen 7 5800 X3D' equipped with Cache memory will appear in the spring of 2022. 'Ryzen 7 5800X3D' has 8 cores and 16 threads, TDP is 105W, and maximum boost clock is 4.5GHz.



◆ Low-end graphic board 'Radeon RX 6500 XT'
In this announcement, the low-end graphic board 'Radeon RX 6500 XT' for the entry market was also announced. 'Radeon RX 6500 XT' is equipped with 16 compute units, and the capacity of Infinity Cache is 16MB. At the time of writing the article, the amount of video memory has not been disclosed.



in Hardware, Posted by log1o_hf