BIZTECH: How do Ryzen 5000 Pro Series processors improve portability?
Portability also gets a boost. On a premium platform, we offer up to 20 hours of battery life. If you look at the past three generations, we more than doubled battery life — from up to seven hours with the Ryzen 3000 Series to up to 16 hours with the Ryzen 4000 Pro Series processors, and we’ve now taken that to up to 20 hours.
The way I think of it is that when you’re able to divvy up different processes by threads or cores, you allow your system not to redline. Instead, you spread it out and can get more efficiency. These low-wattage processors are the holy grail of mobile systems because they make everybody happy: businesses get both performance and portability.
Historically, mobile platforms have been bigger and heavier. What everyone was looking for was getting that performance into something thin and light. We can accomplish this with a relatively low thermal envelope. This means you don’t need huge fans, and the surface heat of the platform is not an issue.
BIZTECH: What does this mean for productivity and security?
On productivity, businesses want responsive computing. How long does it take for applications to come up and start working? If you’ve ever had an issue where your mouse was delayed or keyboard was delayed, you know the frustration of sluggish applications and services. In an internal AMD comprehensive test of common commercial applications such as file compression, anti-virus scanning and Excel workloads, the Ryzen 5000 Pro Series processors offer up to 9 percent faster performance, and up to 10 percent faster performance using Microsoft Office apps while running Zoom conferences, compared to the competition.