A month after announcing that AMD Radeon datacenter GPUs will powerthe Google Stadia cloud gaming platform, AMD has announced the launch of the 2nd-generation Ryzen PRO and Athlon PRO processors with Radeon Vega graphics.
Built on 12nm manufacturing technology, the new AMD Ryzen PRO 3000 Series mobile processors include the Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U, Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U and Ryzen 3 Pro 3300U processors. The new chips will be able to deliver up to 12 hours of office usage and 12 hours of video playback on a single charge and improved security.
The most high-end of the three is the Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U chip which offers a clock speed of 2.3GHz with a boost of up to 4GHz and is based on a 4-core, 8-thread structure. It consists of an AMD Radeon Vega GPU with 10 cores and a clock-speed of 1400 MHz.
The Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U and Ryzen 3 Pro 3300U processors come with a base clock speed of 2.1GHz with a boost of up to 3.7GHz and 3.5GHz respectively. There are four cores each on the 3500U and 3300U but it’s the Ryzen 5 Pro which features 8 threads. All three Ryzen Pro chips have a TDP of 15 watts and 6MB cache size.
AMD has also announced a dual-core four-thread Athlon Pro 300U Processor with a clock-speed of 2.4GHz and a boost of up to 3.3GHz. There are 3 cores of Radeon Vega GPUs with a clock-speed of 1,000MHz.
AMD has partnered with HP and Lenovo who have committed to launching Ryzen Pro-based laptops later this year.
Speaking about their latest development, AMD Client Compute VP and GM, Saeid Moshkelani said “With AMD Ryzen PRO and Athlon PRO mobile processors, AMD delivers the right performance, features, and choice to OEMs and commercial users, combined with the productivity, protection, and professional features needed to ensure seamless deployment throughout an organisation”.
HP Inc. Commercial Personal Systems Global Head, Andy Rhodes also commented saying “HP is committed to raising the bar for powerful and secure commercial devices with cutting EDGE PC innovations. HP is proud to offer the broadest AMD portfolio in the industry with top performance, security, and reliability to business users everywhere”.
Lenovo Commercial Product Portfolio VP, Jerry Paradise said “As work-life integration goes mainstream and people seek increasing flexibility in their lifestyles, they need accessible tools to stay productive and entertained anytime, anywhere. Lenovo is pleased to partner with AMD to offer commercial users mobile experiences that balance performance and portability to power the modern workforce, and excited to extend the partnership to our latest premium ThinkPad series notebooks coming soon”.