THE PRO VERSION of processors often lag behind the mainstream consumer chips in their core technology. AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 series Pro chips—in the mobile versions, anyway—offer the latest 4nm Zen 4 Phoenix silicon with RDNA 3 graphics to its business customers, and claim to be the world’s fastest professional processors for ultra-thin systems. Being a Pro chips means extra security, deployment, and management features, as well as guarantees on software, availability, and validation.
There are six mobile chips: three ‘U’ low-power, and three ‘HS’ high-power. The top model is the Ryzen 9 Pro 7940HS. This eight-core chip has a clock of 5.2Ghz, and power consumption of 35-54W. The ‘U’ have similar hardware specifications as the ‘HS’, core counts are the same, and clock speeds not far behind. They run at between 15W and 28W. Ryzen’s AI acceleration is available on “select models”.