Following the launch of AMD’s first NPU-equipped processors, the Ryzen 8000G series from January, the company is expanding its portfolio with Ryzen Pro 8000 models that also feature AI acceleration hardware.
These are the AMD Ryzen Pro 8000 chips for desktop and Ryzen Pro 8040 for mobile. Additionally, there are Pro variants of the 8000G chips from earlier this year. What difference does that make?
The Pro chips have additional functionality that is beneficial or even required for professional use. This includes the Microsoft Pluton for encryption and additional memory protection, better ECC support, Secure Encrypted Virtualization, remote management features and so on.
