AMD has started selling Ryzen Pro 6000 processors for laptops today. It was already announced at CES in January. HP and Lenovo are the first laptop manufacturers to use the new CPUs in their models.

Like Ryzen 6000 Consumer Processors The new Ryzen Pro chips use Zen 3+ cores for the CPU part and RDNA2 architecture for the integrated GPU. Zen 3+ should be more economical, in part due to the introduction of an improved production process from TSMC, while RDNA2 represents a huge step up in GPU performance compared to the igpus used so far based on the five-year-old Vega architecture.

Under the name AMD Pro, the processors in the Ryzen Pro series have many additional security features at the software, firmware, and hardware level. In addition, laptops can be managed remotely, and processors are guaranteed to be available for two years. New is the integration of the security processor that complies with Microsoft Bluetone Standard, which must pass FIPS 140-3 certification level 2. Intel and Qualcomm are also working on processors with Pluton, but AMD is the first on the market.

Lenovo uses the new chips in ThinkPad Z Notebookswhich will be available in 13 and 16 variants. As part of what AMD calls “the best ever partnership with laptop manufacturers” callsIncluded in this series is the custom Ryzen 7 Pro 6860Z processor, which will be fully “power-optimized” for these select laptops. The ThinkPad Z also has an HD webcam, an OLED display, and a touchpad that works with haptic feedback.

HP comes with a full line of EliteBook G9 laptops in 13, 14 and 16 inch sizes. The battery life of these laptops in particular should be very good, which AMD reinforces by noting that calendar For the EliteBook 865 G9 laptop in the MobileMark 2018 database. Equipped with the Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U, the notebook lasted more than 26 hours on a single battery charge.

In addition to the Ryzen Pro 6000 processors, AMD is also introducing three new models in the 5000U series, with clock speeds that are slightly higher than the current offering. Effectively it comes to Pro versions of refresh Also released by AMD for the consumer market at the beginning of this year.

All new Ryzen Pro processors in the Ryzen 6000 and 5000 series