AMD today launched its most recent generation of business processors for business PCs, the Ryzen Pro 8000 series, for both desktop and laptops. For now, AMD will be the only CPU vendor offering AI-powered NPUs in business desktop PCs.
AMD’s launch arrives on the heels of Intel’s 14th-gen vPro platform, which also offers desktop and mobile parts. The difference is that Intel launched its vPro refresh based upon the “Raptor Lake Refresh” architecture, which lacks AI; AMD’s Ryzen Pro 8000 series is relatively consistent across both its mobile and desktop offerings. However, not every new Ryzen Pro 8000 mobile or desktop chip includes AI support.
If you’ve been following our coverage of AMD’s Ryzen 8000 mobile CPUs and AMD’s corresponding Ryzen 8000 desktop processors, AMD’s latest chip lineups shouldn’t be surprising. AMD’s latest Ryzen Pro 8000 processors pretty much overlap its consumer offerings, with the Ryzen 9 Pro 8945HS (8 cores, 16 threads, boosting from 4.0GHz to 5.2GHz) on down. AMD’s Ryzen Pro 8000 desktop processors are similar, with the Ryzen 8700G (8 cores, 16 threads, boosting from 4.2GHz to 5.1GHz) at the top of the stack. All of the new processors are 4nm parts, based on AMD’s Zen 4 architecture.
What’s new? Some of AMD’s Ryzen Pro 8000 desktop chips now offer Ryzen AI, a competitive advantage that AMD is pushing hard. (AMD’s existing Ryzen 8000 desktop lineup supports Ryzen AI.) The Ryzen Pro lineup now also offers “E” versions, which reduce the available power envelope from between 45- and 65W to a flat 35W cTDP. AMD is also touting its advantages in AI and power in the mobile space. AMD’s desktop chips now include the Pluton security coprocessor, too, the first time that AMD has added it to a desktop part; cloud-based remote manageability features are also present.
The HP Elitebook 835 and 845 G11 and the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen5 and P14s, are some of the devices that will use the new Ryzen processors.
“Together all these processors we announced today really push the boundaries of performance and efficiency from AMD like we’ve never done before,” said Ronak Shah, global commercial product marketing manager at AMD, in a briefing with reporters.
AMD’s Ryzen Pro 8000 mobile processors
AMD refers to its mobile Ryzen 8000 processors as the Ryzen Pro 8040 series of mobile processors, though its desktop chips are called the AMD Ryzen Pro 8000 lineup.
Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Millions of AI PCs have already shipped, based upon their combination of CPU, GPU, and (sometimes) NPU, which can collaborate on AI-specific tasks if coded appropriately. By 2026, six out of 10 PCs should qualify as AI PCs, Shah said, though there’s still no formal definition of the term. The argument is that corporations and their sensitive business data could have more of a demand for local on-PC AI than consumers, especially if Microsoft eventually decides to run Copilot on local PCs.
“There’s no model for running the Copilot infrastructure on-premises or with any additional data protection beyond what Microsoft offers,” Wes Miller, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, said in a direct message on Twitter.com. “This highlights why customers must approach Copilot with caution and understand that whatever compliance and data retention and governance terms Microsoft offers are all they get.”
Most of AMD’s new Ryzen Pro 8000 mobile chips include Ryzen AI, its NPU. Those marked with an asterisk do not.
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