AMD Ryzen 6000 APUs mark an important step forward, not only because they integrate GPUs with based on the RDNA 2 architecture, but also because they are the first of their kind to have support for Microsoft Pluto.
At the spec level, Ryzen 6000 APUs come with a Zen 3+ CPU, manufactured in 6nm process, They have configurations of up to 8 cores and 16 threads and their integrated GPU can have between 6 and 12 compute units, which is equivalent to 384 shaders and 768 shaders.
Thanks to the use of DDR5 memory, these APUs will have the necessary bandwidth for their new integrated graphics to be able to offer a higher level of performance. It is not yet clear what difference we will see compared to the current APUs, which are based on the Radeon Vega architecture (GCN 5), but I think that we can expect a remarkable jump, not only due to the use of a new architecture, but also due to its higher bandwidth.
The Ryzen 6000 are also integrated into DisplayPort 2, since they will be compatible with USB 4 standards, which offers a bandwidth of up to 40 Gbps, PCIE Gen4, the aforementioned DDR5 memory and LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth LE 5.2 and DisplayPort 2. A very attractive set of functions and features.
But this is not all, this generation will also be the first to have full support of the Microsoft Pluton platform. Thanks to this platform, the Ryzen 6000 APUs will offer a significant improvement at the level of hardware-level security, and backed by the cloud. This feature will make them a very interesting solution for the professional sector.
The Ryzen 6000 APUs have been confirmed, for now, for the portable sector, and will be used in new generations of notebooks from the main OEMs in the sector, among which are giants such as ASUS, MSI, HP and GIGABYTE.
