In the past two or three years, games have undoubtedly been the fastest growing category in the PC, which stems from the continuous pursuit of higher performance by users and players, and we are also pleased to see that the entire mobile platform around the processor is constantly improving.
According to the data of GFK, MPD, IDC and other market research agencies, the growth of high-end game books of 1500+ DOLLARs is particularly fast, but today's players are not only blindly pursuing performance, but also pay more attention to the size of the game book, and the growth rate of thin and light products is more than 3 times the average growth rate of game books.
With outstanding advantages such as high performance and high cost performance, AMD Ryzen has gained general recognition, and its share in the game market has also continued to grow in the past two years, reaching about 35% in the second quarter of 2021.
Entering 2022, AMD, especially the game platform, has brought a new Ryzen™ 6000H series processor, focusing on the pursuit of energy efficiency and performance density breakthroughs, that is, to bring higher performance per unit of power consumption and volume, while ensuring that the overall is thin and light.
The Ryzen 6000H series adopts an upgraded version of the Zen3+ architecture, designed for mobile terminals, and strives to improve energy efficiency, making the game thinner and lighter, longer lasting battery life, and up to an astonishing 24 hours.
From bottom to top, the Ryzen 6000H Series has five levels of optimization and improvement:
1, the new 6nm manufacturing process, in cooperation with TSMC, compared with the previous generation of 7nm has done a lot of optimization.
2. The new Zen3+ CPU microarchitecture has been deeply optimized for power efficiency.
One of the most prominent technical aspects is "CPPC" (Coprocessor Performance Control), which can be controlled on the basis of the previous two generations, each core, each thread, so as to more accurately set the core frequency and adapt to complex workloads.
The other is the new hardware-assisted feature "PC6 Restore", which allows the CPU core and surrounding circuits to enter and exit the deepest low-power state, and the switching speed is 4 times faster than the previous generation, which can fully reduce power consumption.
3. New power layers, new power architectures, and new depth partitions have been added to the SoC level.
With the new zoned control and Infinity interconnect architecture control, more modules can be switched on and off individually, further saving power consumption without affecting system operating efficiency.
At the same time, the regulation accuracy is higher, and each module can quickly return to high-performance mode in the closed state.
4. New Power Management Framework (PMF).
Different from the previous system-level power management, now comes to the hardware level, without user manual intervention, can automatically perceive the user, system status, such as low load recycling automatically switch to low-power mode, reduce processor performance and fan speed, when high performance is required, automatically switch back.
5. Platform component optimization and AMD Chaowei excellent platform.
At the platform level, AMD has also partnered with system vendors to add more optimization technologies.
For example, the panel self-refresh selective update (PSR-SU) can control the refresh of some areas on the display, such as only refreshing the active area.
In terms of platform technology, this generation is also the latest and top level in the industry in all aspects, and many of them are still not available to competitors.
Memory upgrade supports DDR5-4800, LPDDR5-6400, but no longer supports DDR4.
The expansion upgrade supports PCIe 4.0, of which 8 are divided into discrete graphics cards, 4x are divided into NVMe SSDs, 4 are divided into NVMe/SATA SSDs, and 4 are divided into general expansion peripherals.
USB supports USB4 for the first time, with a maximum speed of 40Gbps, comparable to Intel's Thunderbolt 4;
The network supports Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth LE 5.2, from AMD's cooperation with Qualcomm and MediaTek;
The display supports HDMI 2.1 and is ready for the next generation of DisplayPort 2, adding AV1 video decoding acceleration and supporting various high gamut screens;
In addition, there is AI noise reduction, which can filter out background noise...
The Ryzen 6000H series product line has a total of eight different models, which continue to be divided into HS 35W, H 45W, HX 45W+ versions, of which half of the HS 35W series is optimized for high energy efficiency, more suitable for thin and light game books, including Ryzen 9 6980HS, Ryzen 9 6900HS, Ryzen™ 7 6800HS, Ryzen 5 6600HS.
The Ryzen™ 9 6900HS is expected to be the most widely used, with 8 cores and 16 threads, a baseline frequency of 3.3GHz, and up to 4.9GHz acceleration, while integrating a Radeon 680M GPU with 12 RDNA2 architecture compute units.
The higher-level Ryzen™ 9 6980HS can be accelerated to 5.0GHz, which is the first time that AMD notebook processors and even the Zen architecture family have reached such heights.
The Ryzen™ 9 6980 HX and Ryzen™ 9 6900HX are both 45W+ high-performance models with the highest frequencies of 5.0GHz and 4.9GHz, respectively.
Ryzen™ 7 6800H and Ryzen™ 5 6600H are 45W standard editions, the former with a maximum frequency of 4.7GHz and the latter as a 6-core 8-thread, which will become the first choice for mainstream game books, especially the Ryzen™ 7 6800H.
AMD also gave a comparative example: one side is based on the Ryzen™ 9 6900HS Asus ROG Phantom 14, the continuous power consumption release is only 35W, the other side is based on the i9-12900HK MSI attack GE76, the continuous power release is as high as 110W, and the performance is very close, so that the energy efficiency ratio of the Ryzen™ is 2.62 times higher!
The processor's built-in GPU finally bid farewell to the Vega architecture that has been used for many years, upgraded to the same RDNA2 architecture as the latest Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, and increased to up to 12 compute units, that is, 768 stream processors, while increasing bandwidth, cache, rendering backend, comparable to entry-level discrete graphics cards.
While improving performance, energy efficiency optimization is also a top priority, such as the characteristic Infinity Cache unlimited cache retained, which can further increase the memory bandwidth at lower power consumption, which is particularly beneficial for integrated GPUs, and the real-time power cycle mechanism, which can run at higher frequencies at lower power consumption.
Named is the new Radeon 600M series, of which the Ryzen™ 9/7 series is built-in Radeon 680M, up to 12 computing units, the highest frequency of 2.4GHz; Ryzen™ 5 series is Radeon 660M, up to 6 computing units, frequency up to 1.9GHz.
The technical aspect also supports DX12 Ultimate, FSR, RSR and other technologies, of which RSP super resolution was updated this spring.
With the blessing of FSR and RSR, even the low-power Ryzen 7 6800U built-in Radeon 680M (TDP 28W), the game performance can surpass the GTX 1650 Max-Q, and the mainstream 3A games can be stably run in 1080p low quality.
Of course, the game focuses on discrete graphics, AMD has also updated the new Radeon RX 6000S series, which is also the RDNA2 architecture, which also optimizes energy efficiency and continuous power consumption release of no more than 100W.
The series has three models, including the top Radeon RX 6800S integrated 32-unit, 2048 stream processor, core game frequency of 1975MHz, with 8GB GDDR6 video memory, total bandwidth 445GB/s, power consumption range of 60-100W, 1080p high quality mainstream game frame rate can be around 100FPS.
The Radeon RX 6700S is reduced to 28 units, 1792 stream processors, the frequency is reduced to 1890MHz, the bandwidth is reduced to 413GB/s, and the power consumption range is 50-80W, which should be the most popular.
Radeon RX 6600S is mainly based on the RX 6700S frequency continues to drop to 1881MHz, video memory halved to 4GB, power consumption range unchanged, gaming performance is generally around 80FPS.
In terms of performance, the official RX 6800S can already surpass the RTX 3080 mobile version, with a lead of about 10%.
AMD processors, AMD graphics cards, AMD chipsets – the combination of 3A platforms naturally has its own unique skills.
For example, SAM memory smartsight, which we are all familiar with, allows the processor to access all video memory capacity, improving game performance by 8-15%.
Another example is the upgraded version of SmartShift Max, which can dynamically and intelligently distribute power consumption between the processor and graphics card according to the actual load, give more to the GPU when playing games, and give priority to the CPU when creating content.
At present, a number of thin and light books, commercial books and game books based on the Ryzen 6000H platform are preparing for development, with a total of more than 200 different models.
Among them, the game book includes ROG Fantasy 14/ROG Magic 6/ROG Magic New/ROG Ice Blade 6 Dual Screen, Asus Sky Choice 3, Acer Shadow Knight 5, Alien m17 R5, HP EliteBook 845/865 G9, Lenovo Savior R9000P, Lenovo ThinkPad Z13/Z16, Razer Blade 14 and so on.
In terms of performance, the official claims that compared with the Razer Blade 14 of the Ryzen™ 9 5900HX and RTX 3080 combinations, its game performance can be increased by up to 15%.
After opening the FSR technology, you can get a high frame rate of 100+ FPS in many game masterpieces, such as "Galaxy Cracker" can soar from 158FPS to 255FPS, an incredible increase of 61%.
ROG Phantom 14 is a representative of amD Chaowei Excellence Platform, up to the Ryzen™ 9 6900HS, RX 6800S, and the use of top vacuum chamber vaporizer plate, liquid metal heat dissipation.
ROG Fantasy 14 is a typical thin and light game book, the thickness is only 18.5mm, the weight is only 1.65kg, A side is an upgraded Pandora light display matrix, embedded in 1449 mindLED lamp beads.
The screen is selectable with QHD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, 500nits brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, or FHD+, 144Hz, 400nits, 100% sRGB, all of which are Panton color certified.
Amazingly, as a game book, its battery life can be up to 13 hours (video playback)!