AMD Announces 2nd Gen Ryzen PRO Mobile Processors and an Update to AMD Partner Hub

AMD announced the latest additions to its PRO processor lineup: 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen PRO mobile processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics and AMD Athlon™ PRO mobile processors with Radeon Vega Graphics.

Providing commercial notebook users with power-efficient performance, state-of-the-art security features, and commercial-grade reliability and manageability, these new processors enable global PC manufacturers to create a wide range of business systems, from premium professional notebooks to everyday productivity notebooks. Initial commercial systems from HP and Lenovo are expected this quarter with other OEMs and further platform updates anticipated later in 2019.

“Modern PC users expect the experience between professional and personal to be imperceptible, and business notebook users want to utilize the latest modern features including 3D modeling, video editing, multi-display setups while multitasking securely, to get more done,” said Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, Client Compute, AMD. “With AMD Ryzen PRO and Athlon PRO mobile processors, AMD delivers the right performance, features, and choice to OEMs and commercial users, combined with the productivity, protection, and professional features needed to ensure seamless deployment throughout an organization.”

2^nd Gen Ryzen PRO Mobile Processors:

Built on 12nm manufacturing technology, the new AMD Ryzen™ PRO 3000 Series mobile processors deliver best-in-class performance² and increase productivity by offering up to 16% more multi-threading processor performance than competition³.

Specifically, the new AMD Ryzen PRO mobile processors deliver:

• up to 12 hours of general office use or up to 10 hours of video playback¹,
• up to 14% faster content creation⁴and accelerated everyday office applications with integrated Radeon Vega graphics, from 3D modeling to video editing,
• powerful security features on all Ryzen PRO processors with AMD’s security co-processor built into the silicon,
• and 18-month of image stability, 24-month of processor availability, commercial grade quality, enterprise-class manageability, and 36-month limited warranty to system manufacturers.

AMD is also offering “Zen”-based⁵ Athlon PRO mobile processors, bringing a greater choice of mobile computing experiences across the full budget spectrum.

Partner Quotes

“HP is committed to raising the bar for powerful and secure commercial devices with cutting edge PC innovations,” said Andy Rhodes, Global Head Commercial Personal Systems, HP Inc. “HP is proud to offer the broadest AMD portfolio in the industry with top performance, security, and reliability to business users everywhere.”

“As work-life integration goes mainstream and people seek increasing flexibility in their lifestyles, they need accessible tools to stay productive and entertained anytime, anywhere,” said Jerry Paradise, vice president, Lenovo Commercial Product Portfolio. “Lenovo is pleased to partner with AMD to offer commercial users mobile experiences that balance performance and portability to power the modern workforce, and excited to extend the partnership to our latest premium ThinkPad series notebooks coming soon.”