AMD Ryzen 6000 U Tested: The Ideal Chip for Ultraportables?
AMD’s Ryzen 6000 mobile processors have been on the market for several months following their unveiling at CES in January. First it was the powerful H series chips that showed up in gaming rigs and workstations, and now the lower-power U series tier is becoming available in consumer laptops.
We finally have the first test unit in hand, so we can tell you exactly the kind of performance you can expect from a Ryzen 6000 U series laptop. AMD sent us an Asus ZenBook S 13 OLED tester laptop with this fresh silicon, and we ran the rule over its performance with our suite of benchmark tests.
How does it stack up to the previous-generation 5000 U series, not to mention its more potent H series siblings and its Intel rivals? Read on for the results.
Let's establish what it is exactly we're testing here, especially for those who haven't been keeping up. The image below shows the full Ryzen laptop stack for 2022, as revealed by AMD at CES earlier this year…
The 6000 U series processors were teased then, even though their availability in laptops would come later than those H series chips revealed alongside them. You’ll also note some 5000 U series chips in there, included because they are among the CPUs you’ll find in AMD laptops in 2022. They're of course not part of the latest 6000 series, as they use a previous-generation processor architecture (more on that below).
That table shows that after subtracting the U series chips from the 5000 family, we're actually left with just two brand-new 6000 U series chips, the Ryzen 5 6600U and the Ryzen 7 6800U. The latter is what we received in the ZenBook for testing. You are free to find only two new chips here a little underwhelming, but we would say that when taken with the 5000 U and
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