AMD officially launches Ryzena 6000, what’s new?

We won’t see Zen 3+ processors produced by the 6nm process on the desktop, which of course does not apply to APUs, which should arrive in desktop form, but it is not at all certain whether this also applies to the retail sale of stand-alone processors.

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O Ryzenech 6000 we have known for a month and a half, which is true for official sources, but now we can finally start looking for them on the market, for example on the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 computer. –

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As far as Zen 3+ cores are concerned, the plus in the label is, according to AMD, all about efficiency, ie the goal was primarily to reduce consumption, while in terms of IPC (power per clock), we can not expect essentially any difference. By the way, the same cache configuration with 4 MB L2 and 16 MB L3 remained. AMD has made some optimizations regarding heat loss, but above all it is the overall power management that was supposed to make the difference. This means more power saving modes, namely the state of CC1 for the sleep of individual cores. A total of 50 changes were made to increase efficiency and extend battery operation, some of which were made possible by the transition to a 6nm process, which, unlike 7nm, already uses EUV lithography on some layers.

The impact is that, according to AMD, the new APU will provide 8 percent longer standby (Windows idle), 12% standby and 17% video playback, comparing 5000U and 6000U chips, or 15W TDP.

It is interesting how this presentation of the AMD company is completely different from the one that took place in January at CES 2022. At that time, Lisa Su boasted not only efficiency, but above all performance, but then it turned out that they were compared old 15W chips with new 28W chips. It was specifically the Ryzen 7 6800U, which has a configurable TDP starting at just 15 W. –

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In addition to such APUs for thin and light laptops, we have four other APUs with 35W TDP and then 45W + models. In all cases, these are 6- and 8-core models.

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Here we can already notice that AMD does not compare the performance of specific models, but simply the 5000 and 6000 series, so it can be seen that the company really grabbed their noses and admitted that they exaggerated this with their presentation at CES 2022.

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We can see this in the next slide of the presentation, where AMD already states the TDP of all compared APUs and specifically tries to show that the Ryzen 7 5800U and 6800U at 15 W outperform the 28W model Core i7-1185G7. However, this is still the old Tiger Lake, or CPU from September 2020, so we can only assume that AMD has probably not yet reached any laptop with a mobile Alder Lake. Come on.

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