AMD just announced a Ryzen PRO lineup, powerful processors for businesses

[Karlston]

AMD just announced a Ryzen PRO lineup, powerful processors for businesses

Led by the Ryzen 9 PRO 3900

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Over the last couple weeks, we heard word of an AMD Ryzen 9 3900 hitting the street, and now it seems like those rumors were accurate – mostly.

 

AMD just announced a new lineup of PRO processors, led by the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900. This processor's TDP (Thermal Design Power) is lowered to 65W from the Ryzen 9 3900X's 95W, which should mean it'll emit less heat and consume less power. But, it does also mean it won't be as fast.

 

The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 is accompanied by the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 and Ryzen 5 PRO 3600, along with a bunch of G-series Ryzen processors with Radeon Vega graphics. It should be noted, that because these are all 65W parts, you shouldn't expect boost clocks to be as high – the Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 only reaches up to 4.3GHz, compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X's 4.6GHz. Though, Ryzen processors are having trouble reaching their rated boost clocks anyways. 

 

We went ahead and listed out the new AMD Ryzen PRO processors below: 

 

• AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 | 12-cores, 24-threads | 4.3GHz boost | 65W TDP
• AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 | 8-cores, 16-threads | 4.4GHz boost | 65W TDP
• AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3600 | 6-cores, 12-threads | 4.2GHz boost | 65W TDP
• AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G | 4-cores, 8-threads | 4.2GHz boost | 65W TDP
• AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE |  4-cores, 8-threads | 4.0GHz boost | 35W TDP
• AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G | 4-cores, 4-threads | 4.0GHz boost | 65W TDP
• AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200GE | 4-cores, 4-threads | 3.8GHz boost | 35W TDP
• AMD Athlon PRO 300GE | 2-cores, 4-threads | 3.4GHz boost | 35W TDP

Who are these for?

It's important to note that these processors aren't intended for everyday users. If you're just trying to build a gaming PC, you're better off getting any other Ryzen 3rd Generation chip. These processors are primarily intended for business use, and will be included in a ton of pre-built desktops for that purpose.

 

There are a ton of features in these new processors that are particularly useful for businesses, but probably won't make much sense for everyday consumers. For example, each of these AMD Ryzen PRO processors come with a built-in security processor packed with AMD's GuardMI tech. This will help protect PCs from some of the most severe cold boot cyber attacks. 

 

AMD has also partnered with HP and Lenovo, and is able to include Lenovo ThinkShield and HP SureStart support at the silicon level for pre-built systems, like the HP EliteDesk 705 G5 and Lenovo Thinkpad M75q-1. 

 

So, while we don't think these processors will be featured in any of the hottest gaming PC builds any time soon, we definitely expect some businesses to make the jump, especially media companies who can use that extra horsepower for editing video.

 

 

Source: AMD just announced a Ryzen PRO lineup, powerful processors for businesses (TechRadar)

[Israeli_Eagle]

Without X means no hyper-threading. So... Pro is then the cheaper & weaker version.

The question is: What is then professional & powerful?? 

 

[Karlston]

AMD Ryzen Pro 3000 series desktop CPUs will offer full RAM encryption

Ryzen Pro brings Epyc's Secure Memory Encryption to the desktop, more or less.

Enlarge / Mmmmm, business-y. Don't expect to build your own Ryzen Pro 3000 system—the new chips are, sadly, only available to large OEMs.

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Monday, AMD announced Ryzen Pro 3000 desktop CPUs would be available in Q4 2019. This of course raises the question, "What's a Ryzen Pro?"

 

The business answer: Ryzen Pro 3000 is a line of CPUs specifically intended to power business-class desktop machines. The Pro line ranges from the humble dual-core Athlon Pro 300GE all the way through to Ryzen 9 Pro 3900, a 12-core/24-thread monster. The new parts will not be available for end-user retail purchase and are only available to OEMs seeking to build systems around them.

 

Model	Cores/Threads	TDP	Boost/Base Freq.	Graphics Compute Units
Ryzen 9 Pro 3900	12/24	65W	4.3GHz / up to 3.1GHz	n/a
Ryzen 7 Pro 3700	8/16	65W	4.4GHz / up to 3.6GHz	n/a
Ryzen 5 Pro 3600	6/12	65W	4.2GHz / up to 3.6GHz	n/a
Ryzen 5 Pro 3400G	4/8	65W	4.2GHz / up to 3.7GHz	11 CUs
Ryzen 5 Pro 3400GE	4/8	35W	4.0GHz / up to 3.3GHz	11 CUs
Ryzen 3 Pro 3200G	4/8	65W	4.0GHz / up to 3.6GHz	8 CUs
Ryzen 3 Pro 3200GE	4/8	35W	3.8GHz / up to 3.3GHz	8 CUs
Athlon Pro 300GE	2/4	35W	3.4GHz / up to 3.4GHz	3 CUs

 

From a more technical perspective, the answer is that the Ryzen Pro line includes AMD Memory Guard, a transparent system memory encryption feature that appears to be equivalent to the AMD SME (Secure Memory Encryption) in Epyc server CPUs. Although AMD's own press materials don't directly relate the two technologies, their description of Memory Guard—"a transparent memory encryption (OS and application independent DRAM encryption) providing a cryptographic AES encryption of system memory"—matches Epyc's SME exactly.

 

AMD Memory Guard is not, unfortunately, available in standard Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs. If you want to build your own Ryzen PC with full memory encryption from scratch, you're out of luck for now.

 

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HP's EliteDesk 705 G5 Small Form Factor and EliteDesk G5 Mini will be among the first PCs to feature the new Ryzen Pro 3000 CPUs. The SFF desktop PC will be available with the Athlon Pro 300GE APU, the Ryzen 3 Pro 3200G, or Ryzen 5 Pro 3400G. The Mini offers the same selection, along with the Ryzen 3 3200GE and Ryzen 5 3400GE low-power variants.

 

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Source: AMD Ryzen Pro 3000 series desktop CPUs will offer full RAM encryption (Ars Technica)

 

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