AMD Ryzen 6000 Mobile CPU Benchmarked: The Bronze Medal Ain't Bad
Just weeks after their unveiling at CES, AMD's Ryzen 6000 Series mobile processors are poised to show up in retail laptops, challenging Intel’s latest 12th Generation ("Alder Lake") mobile CPUs and Apple’s proprietary M1 processors with the most advanced AMD technology yet.
The last couple of years have been marked by major architecture changes in Intel and Apple processors, which means that AMD stands out by sticking with the tried and true. With no differentiated Efficiency cores or Performance cores like on Intel's latest laptop chips, AMD’s Ryzen 9 6000 laptop CPUs combine dozens of small enhancements and optimizations to deliver better power and efficiency across all eight of their cores. AMD dubs this iteration to its architecture "Zen 3+."
But that doesn't mean that the latest AMD processors aren't going to offer improved performance and power management. On the contrary, AMD has worked to squeeze more raw power out of these sixth-generation CPUs, which were code-named "Rembrandt" during development. (That's in keeping with AMD's recent CPU families being named after artists.) The company touts five layers of power optimization, ranging from the physical silicon to the system software. All are aimed at delivering next-generation capabilities without the need for a massive architecture change.
With these new Ryzen 6000 processors for laptops, AMD has moved to a 6-nanometer (6nm) manufacturing process, which means more transistors on the chip. There are up to 13.1 billion transistors on the 210 square millimeters of silicon in the Ryzen 6000 series, up from the 10.7 billion available on the Ryzen 5000 line. We'll be testing the Ryzen 9 6900HS below, third down in the new Ryzen 6000 stack, which comprises both
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