Ryzen mobile 4000 series could reach 18 hours of autonomy

AMD vice president of computing and graphics Rick Bergman hinted that at least one Ryzen Mobile- based 4000 series notebook model could achieve "18 hours" of autonomy.

AMD ensures that its Ryzen 4000 series for laptops has substantially improved its autonomy

Bergman dropped the figure Thursday during a meeting of financial analysts in San Francisco. While the raw performance of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 4000 chips is expected to make notebook CPUs an option to consider, the issue of autonomy was a question mark for a long time.

Bergman cleared some doubts on this subject on Thursday. "We have advanced to 18 hours of autonomy with our new Ryzen product , " said Bergman, among other data on chip speed, how many PC manufacturers are adopting AMD's new Ryzen portable chips, etc.

Sellers have been very quiet about battery performance on Ryzen 4000. Asus was one of the few that commented that ROG Zephyrus would have a range of "10 hours", which is a gaming laptop.

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Obviously what is not known is which laptop Bergman was referring to, how large the battery was, and what test was used to derive the 18 hours. Assuming AMD is being honest with its data, the new chip can be much more competitive than its predecessors in terms of power consumption.

Bergman did not elaborate, so we'll have to wait for the real retail notebooks to hit the streets to see if AMD did the homework-wise. However, these statements are promising. We will keep you informed.

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