Fast forward to March and April, and this time of year is the peak season for new notebook products, and this year is no exception. At this year's CES show, upstream chip giants have released the latest processors and graphics cards, such as AMD, which brought the latest AMD Ryzen 6000 series mobile processors. So what are the highlights of the new generation of Ryzen™ processors? What are the new notebook products equipped with the new generation of Ryzen™ processors worth seeing? What other Ryzen™ new notebooks are worth looking forward to in the future? In this issue, we will take stock.
AMD Ryzen™ 6000 Series Mobile Processor Highlights
Like the previous Ryzen™ processors, this year's new generation of AMD Ryzen™ processors has also brought great upgrades, especially the built-in GPU part of the upgrade to the RDNA2 core, achieving a huge leap in performance, from the perspective of ordinary consumers, AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series mobile processors have the following highlights.
Processor architecture, production process, and performance are all upgraded
The Zen architecture is at the heart of Ryzen™s processors, and after several years of continuous development, the architecture of AMD's Ryzen™ 6000 series mobile processors has been upgraded to the latest Zen 3+ architecture. As an upgraded and optimized version of the Zen 3 architecture, AMD said that the Zen 3+ architecture is mainly highly optimized for energy efficiency, adding more than 50 power optimizations to the Zen 3+ architecture.
In addition, the production process of AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series mobile processors has also been upgraded from the previous TSMC 7nm to the current 6nm. The optimization of the architecture and the upgrading of the production process have greatly improved the frequency of this generation of Ryzen™ processors, such as the two AMD Ryzen™ 9 processors (AMD Ryzen™ 9 6980HX, AMD Ryzen™ 9 6980HS) The highest frequency has reached 5.0GHz, which is also the first time that the Ryzen mobile processor has entered the era of 5.0GHz at the highest frequency.
In terms of processor performance, according to AMD's official release, compared with the previous generation of processors, AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series mobile processors have a performance improvement of about 30% in multi-threading and about 10% in single threading.
Better energy consumption ratio, longer battery life
Optimizing for energy efficiency is the focus of the upgrade of the new generation of Ryzen™ processors, and even AMD itself said that the "+" in the "Zen 3+" architecture represents a better energy consumption ratio. As mentioned earlier, AMD has introduced more than 50 power optimizations for the new architecture, and virtually every major component of the Zen 3+ architecture has been carefully optimized to reduce power consumption. For example, we are familiar with CPPC (co-processor performance control), the previous Ryzen™ processor in the CPPC blessing can do rapid response, independently select the best core operation under specific needs, flexibly dynamically adjust performance and power consumption, and now CPPC technology can allow the Ryzen processor to independently select the best thread, so as to more accurately control the core frequency.
Not only that, but AMD has also made significant changes at the SoC level, bringing a new power power management architecture. Under the new power consumption management framework, many new control areas have been added, and the power consumption in these new control areas can be controlled independently, and even the data bus under the Infinity Fabric ring bus interconnection can be turned off independently.
Under a series of upgrades and optimizations, AMD said that the battery life of notebooks equipped with Ryzen™s 6000 series mobile processors has reached an astonishing 24 hours. In fact, from the battery comparison test we did before on the Ryzen 5000 series and the 11th generation Core thin and light book, we can see that the actual battery life of the Ryzen notebook is longer than that of the Core notebook, and now upgraded to the Ryzen 6000 series processor, then the new Ryzen is more worth looking forward to.
RDNA 2 built-in graphics performance leaps and bounds
AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series mobile processors also for the first time built-in RDNA 2 architecture graphics card, which provides 12 sets of RDNA 2 computing units, graphics card frequency up to 2.4GHz, compared to the Ryzen 5000 series mobile processor built-in Vega architecture graphics, the new RDNA 2 architecture graphics card provides 2 times the L2 cache, the overall performance is also improved by 2 times. The RDNA 2 architecture also supports hardware-level ray tracing.
AmD Ryzen™ 7 6800H and Core i7-12700H processor built-in graphics card parameter comparison.
The addition of RDNA 2 graphics cards is of great significance to thin and light, compared to the 12th generation Core built-in Sharp Torch Xe graphics card, AMD Ryzen 6000 series mobile processor built-in RDNA 2 graphics card has stronger graphics performance, can firmly grasp a large part of the only play "League of Legends", "Fortnite" and other online game users.
Especially according to the official data released by AMD, the performance of the RDNA 2 graphics card built into the new generation of Ryzen™ processors far exceeds the entry-level MX450 unique display, which is not much different from the GTX1650 Max-Q, and even after opening the FSR, it is fully exceeded, which means that in the high-performance thin and light market, the Ryzen notebook will have a strong competitiveness, so that a number of products equipped with the MX series are eclipsed, and if competitors want to compete with the Ryzen light and thin book, I am afraid that they need to be equipped with RTX 2050 graphics card can do, but this undoubtedly increases the user's purchase cost.
USB4, PCIe 4.0 and other peripheral upgrades
AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series mobile processors also make up for shortcomings in memory support, I/O expansion, wireless networks and other aspects. For example, it began to support the latest USB4 standard, and its maximum transfer speed can reach 40Gbps. In addition, AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series mobile processors also add support for DDR5 memory, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2.
This part of the upgrade for most ordinary users has more attractive than the processor performance upgrade, especially in the era of the Ryzen™ 5000 series, Ryzen is light and thin does not support USB4, although many models are equipped with a full-featured USB-C interface, but the transmission rate and expansion of the Thunderbolt 4 interface is still insufficient, which makes everyone have a little regret. Now the Ryzen 6000 series processors make up for these shortcomings, which makes the new generation of Ryzen notebooks stand on the same starting line as competitors in terms of I/O expansion, networking and other processor peripherals.
AMD Ryzen™ 6000 Series New Notebook Recommendation and Prospect
Having said all this, what new notebooks are worth buying now? It should be noted that there are still many manufacturers that have not released new notebooks equipped with a new generation of Ryzen™ processors, so in addition to recommending new products that can be purchased now, we are also here to expand reasonable imagination and speculate on the new products that may be released in the future.
ASUS Tianxuan 3 Ryzen Edition is equipped with AMD Ryzen™ 7 6800H processor, Zen 3+ architecture and 6nm production process brings strong performance, this processor has 8 cores and 16 threads, the maximum acceleration frequency reaches 4.7GHz, whether it is for gaming or heavy rendering, transcoding and other tasks, Tianxuan 3 Ryzen Edition can easily cope. At the unique level, this machine is equipped with a 140W high-power RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, and the graphics performance is far beyond the past. In addition, The Choice 3 Ryzen Edition also supports dual-display and three-mode switching, and players can freely switch the graphics card output mode according to different usage scenarios. In addition, the screen specifications of the Tianxuan 3 Ryzen Version are also good, and it is equipped with a wide color gamut screen of 2560×1440, 165Hz, and 100% DCI-P3, which can meet the requirements of both office, gaming and design.
ROG Phantom 14 2022 is the first laptop in the Phantom series based on the new Ryzen 6000 series AMD Chaowei Superior Platform, which is equipped with AMD Ryzen™ 7 6800HS processor, which adopts 8 cores and 16 threads design, the maximum acceleration frequency can reach 4.7GHz, and the performance is more powerful under the special optimization of ROG. In terms of unique display, the ROG Phantom 14 2022 is equipped with the latest AMD Radeon RX 6700S graphics card designed for thin and light game books, and the power efficiency is optimized on the basis of improved performance. The solitaire display uses RDNA 2 architecture, supports ray tracing, and has 8GB of GDDR6 video memory. With the blessing of AMD Chaowei's excellent platform, ROG Magic 14 2022 also supports AMD video memory smart technology, AMD SmartShift technology, AMD FSR and other technologies, which can bring better gaming experience.
As the latest generation of ROG Magic Master model, ROG Magic 6 ushered in a major upgrade in hardware configuration, this game is equipped with AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX preclocking processor, Zen 3+ architecture and 6nm production process to improve the performance limit of this processor, in the ROG performance optimization can also burst out of stronger performance. In terms of unique display, The Magic 6 uses a full-power RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, especially this year's ROG products also support dual display and three-mode switching, which can bring more powerful graphics performance in the unique output mode. In addition, the design of the 1440p high color gamut high refresh rate screen, dual DDR5 4800 memory slots and dual PCIe 4.0 high-speed SSD M.2 slots also adds comprehensive competitiveness to the Magic 6, making it a game tool.
Some of the amd Ryzen™ 6000 series new notebooks that may arrive in the near future:
Acer Shadow Rider Dragon 2022
ACER Shadow Rider Dragon 2021
Acer's Shadow Rider series is divided into two sub-series, Qing and Dragon, of which Shadow Rider Qing is a Core edition, and a new version has been launched this year. Shadow Rider Dragon is the Ryzen version, last year's Shadow Knight Dragon is equipped with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor and RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, and AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX and RTX 3070 Laptop GPU editions are optional. Acer Shadow Rider Dragon 2021 is a classic model that focuses on cost-effectiveness and affordable prices, with a wealth of internal scalability and three hard drives. It is reported that this year's new Shadow Rider Dragon 2022 is expected to launch around May. There is no doubt that it will be equipped with the latest AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series mobile processors, but there is still a suspense, will it have a full 3A (AMD processor + AMD exclusive) VERSION of the AMD Chaowei Superior Platform?
Lenovo Savior R7000P 2022 model
Lenovo released the Legion 5 game book at CES 2022, corresponding to the Savior R7000P 2022 series.
Lenovo Savior series products have always been well-known among gamer user groups, of which the R7000 series is a classic with high cost performance and high performance. On February 28 this year, Lenovo officially launched the rescuer Y7000P 2022, according to the gourd painting scoop, we may be able to briefly speculate about the future rescuer R7000P 2022 situation. There is no doubt that the Savior R7000P 2022 will be equipped with AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series standard voltage processors, and the unique display may be equipped with the same RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU as the Y7000P 2022, of course, it is not excluded that the R7000P 2022 will have an RTX 3060 version, and may even have a version of the AMD Chaowei Superior Platform as last year.
Redmi Book Pro Ryzen™ Edition 2022
At the beginning of 2021, Redmi brought you the first "Pro" serial notebook product - Redmi Book Pro. After a year, the new Redmi Book Pro 2022 is back in the world, bringing a number of blockbuster upgrades to challenge the peak of thin and light performance. At the new product launch, Redmi revealed that it will soon launch a version equipped with AMD Ryzen 6000H series standard voltage processor, which is undoubtedly expected. The Redmi model has always been known for its high cost performance, so its Ryzen version may be more competitive in terms of price. In addition, the RDNA 2 graphics card built into the AMD Ryzen™ 6000H series has strong performance itself, so will the Redmi Book Pro Ryzen™ Edition 2022 also launch a unique version? It's also a suspense.