CES 2022: AMD announces Ryzen 6000 CPUs for laptops

AMD officially announced the Ryzen 6000 lineup of CPUs for laptops at CES 2022. The chipsets are the successors to the Ryzen 5000 lineup introduced last year.

AMD claims that the new lineup will offer 1.3x faster processing, 2x better gaming performance, and up to 24 hours of battery life.

Ryzen 6000 at CES 2022

AMD is offering the Ryzen 6000 series in two variants — the H-series, with 35W and 45W TDPs, aimed at powerful computers for gaming and productivity, and the U-series, with 15W to 28W TDPs, aimed at thin and light devices.

The Ryzen 6000 series utilise the Zen 3+ architecture, and the 6nm process node. The integrated GPU in these units will use the modern RDNA2 architecture, used in AMD’s latest Radeon GPUs, over the Vega architecture used up until now.

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The flagship offering in the lineup is the Ryzen 9 6980HX, which offers 8 cores and 16 threads, with 3.3GHz base clock speed that boosts up to 5.0GHz. Ut also includes the Radeon 680M GPU with 12 cores.

The Ryzen 6000 series also comes with support for PCIe Gen 4.0, and LPDDR5 RAM.

Laptops powered by AMD’s Ryzen 6000 series will be offered by brands like Acer, Asus, Alienware, Lenovo, Razer, and HP, and may go on sale as early as next month.