The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS is a mobile processor with 8 cores, launched in April 2022. It is part of the Ryzen 9 lineup, using the Zen 3+ (Rembrandt) architecture with Socket FP7. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 16 threads. Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS has 16 MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.3 GHz by default, but can boost up to 4.9 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is making the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS on a 6 nm production node, the transistor count is unknown. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of TSMC. The multiplier is locked on Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS, which limits its overclocking potential.
With a TDP of 35 W, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS consumes only little energy. AMD's processor supports DDR5 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 4800 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the system, Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS uses a PCI-Express Gen 4 connection. This processor features the Radeon 680M integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) can run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.