


The new chips feature up to eight processor cores, with up to 1.28X multi-core performance, 1.11X single-core performance, and up to 1.28X productivity performance.ĪMD also claims its new Zen 3+ mobile chips can help laptops reach up to 24 hours of battery life with video playback, due to the 6000-series mobile processors using up to 30% less power for video conferencing, 15% less power during web browsing, and 40% less power during video streaming. Outside of gaming and graphics performance, the new 6000-series chips can also reach clock speeds of up to 5GHz, which AMD says translates to about 1.3X faster processing time compared to its 5000-series Ryzen chips. On paper, it seems like the Ryzen 7 6800U could at least have comparable graphics performance to certain Intel and Apple processors, but we’ll have to get our hands on some AMD-based laptops to know for sure.ĪMD says its newest laptop chips can help extend laptop battery life up to 24 hours. AMD did not provide specific frame rates during its CES 2022 keynote. At the same resolution and graphics preset, the Ryzen 7 6800U should net somewhere around 50 fps, if AMD’s performance claims are true. In our previous tests, we discovered a Ryzen 7 5800U can manage around 28 frames per second (fps) at 720p with the graphics preset on Low in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. But there’s still some question about how these new 6000-series chips will compare to the graphics performance of Apple’s M1 Pro and Intel chips outfitted with Iris Xe. And AMD is the first chipmaker to ever have a ray-tracing capable APU.ĪMD says its upcoming Ryzen 7 6800U APU will have up to 3.02X times the in-game frame rates compared to Intel’s Core i7-1165G7 and Nvidia’s GeForce MX450, and up to a 2.07X jump in graphics performance compared to its Ryzen 7 5800U, depending on the game. RDNA 2 is also a big reason why AMD is now able to incorporate ray tracing into its APUs, or chips with integrated graphics. The integrated GPU is based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture, which powers its current-gen 6000 series desktop graphics cards. Zen 3+ chips will feature up to eight processor cores, up to 12 GPU compute units (CUs) with ray tracing, as well as a 1.5X larger GPU compute engine, up to 1.5X more memory bandwidth, and twice the amount of L2 cache for faster processing.
