Lenovo SMB Laptops Powered by AMD Processors

Lenovo SMB Laptops Powered by AMD Processors

Today's small and midsize businesses have many important priorities. Developing innovative products and services. Finding new markets and customers. Hiring and training staff. Equipping them with top quality, long lasting laptops.Fortunately, Lenovo offers dozens of high-performance laptops with powerful AMD Ryzen™ and AMD Ryzen™ PRO processors—with features that are perfect for SMBs.

Take AMD Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series processors, for example. Professional laptops powered by Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series CPUs are designed to boost productivity and help protect against today's growing security threats. They also are designed to deliver long-term return on your technology investment, both financially and by providing the IT tools SMBs need to build, create, sell, support, and everything else.

In the market for a new SMB laptop? Or 40 new SMB laptops? Take a quick look at these highly portable Lenovo systems powered by AMD technology:

• ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 (14",AMD) – High-performance 14" business laptop with an AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 5650U processor (2.30 GHz, up to 4.20 GHz Max Boost¹, 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 16 MB Cache) and integrated AMD Radeon™ graphics.
• ThinkBook 13s Gen 3 (13” AMD) – Highly portable 13" business laptop with an AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600U Processor (2.30 GHz, up to 4.20 GHz Max Boost¹, 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 16 MB Cache) and integrated AMD Radeon™ graphics.
• ThinkPad P14s Gen 2 Mobile Workstation (14", AMD) – Powerful 14" mobile workstation with up to an AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800U Processor (1.90 GHz, up to 4.40 GHz Max Boost¹, 8 Cores, 16 Threads, 16 MB Cache) and integrated AMD Radeon™ graphics.
• ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 (15",AMD) – Everyday 15" business laptop with an AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 4650U processor (2.10 GHz, up to 4.0 GHz Max Boost¹, 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 8 MB Cache) and integrated AMD Radeon™ graphics.

Availability and ship-dates will vary. If these popular models are sold out or don't fit your needs, check out Lenovo's full line-up of full line-up of laptops powered by AMD.

AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Processors for SMB

Small and midsize businesses still need big PC power and features. Sales forecasts, marketing assets, communication, and collaboration—it puts the same demands on laptops whether your annual revenue is $5 million or $500 million.

Laptops built with AMD Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series processors deliver blazing fast performance and long battery life. Both in the office and on the go, they accelerate productivity, make teamwork easier, and keep critical business software running smoothly.

In terms of raw technological innovation, AMD is on quite a run. In 2020, AMD introduced its "Zen 2" processor core architecture with a super-efficient 7nm process technology. A year later, it followed up with next-generation "Zen 3" technology, delivering improvements to performance and power consumption.

When you buy a Lenovo laptop with AMD Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series processing, you get:

• The most high-performance cores and threads available in ultrathin business laptops²
• Best-in-class laptop productivity and content creation³
• Up to 15.4 hours of battery life on premium platforms⁴

As always, before you buy, be sure to read the detailed specifications of each system you're considering. For more about these amazing AMD CPUs, see "AMD Ryzen and AMD Ryzen PRO Processors."

The AMD Ryzen™ PRO processor story goes beyond raw processing power and long-lasting portability, however. Every business—including SMBs—can benefit from the built-in security features, fleet management capabilities, and long-term platform stability of AMD Ryzen™ PRO processors.

AMD PRO security—Data protection for SMB

For big companies and small, the quickest way to lose clients and market share lies in one of today's biggest IT threats: data security. One malware attack or cyber breach can uncover plans for your next new product, release confidential customer information onto the dark web, or reveal personal details about you and your staff.

Standard on all AMD Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series processors, AMD PRO security features are always "on," helping to guard your SMB against a multitude of IT risks. It's a multi-layered approach to data protection, stretching from the processor chip to the operating system to the laptop platform:

• AMD Memory Guard delivers full memory encryption that helps protect data should a company laptop be lost or stolen.⁵
• AMD Secure Processor is an integrated on-chip security processor used exclusively for data and app encryption and related tasks.
• AMD Shadow Stack creates a hardware-stored copy of a laptop's software stack to help combat system corruption from malware.

With new threats emerging seemingly every day, security is an increasing focus for businesses everywhere. For SMBs, which are always challenged to do more with less, Lenovo laptops and AMD Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series processors—with multiple layers of built-in protection-- can help deliver valuable peace of mind.

AMD PRO manageability—IT system management for SMB

Small and mid-sized businesses share an important characteristic: a laser-focus on growth. Five employees quickly become 10. Five hundred employees grow to 1,000. This means scaling your IT resources isn't a question of "if" but "when"—and, more importantly, "how."

Fortunately, AMD is ready to scale with you. Business laptops with AMD Ryzen™ PRO processors enable a robust suite of AMD PRO manageability features that simplify deployment of new devices and remote updates to systems already in use. Examples include:

• Streamlined, cloud-based system deployment and configuration
• Remote updates to networked devices and "pushing" key OS and software patches
• Low- or no-touch onboarding of new devices (lowers IT admin time and costs)
• Extended platform stability (see more below)

AMD PRO manageability tools ease the IT burden on SMB managers at all levels, saving money and time so they can focus on expansion, customer satisfaction, and other pressing needs. And that's on top of the incredible power and performance they deliver for daily business computing, sales, and content creation.

AMD PRO business ready—Long-term ROI for SMB

Small and midsize businesses work with smaller budgets than bigger companies and must always consider the long-term return on their IT investments. Will the systems you deploy today still be adequate next year, or the year after? How will you maintain and update them when needed?

AMD Ryzen™ PRO processors are enterprise-grade computing solutions—stable, reliable, and built to last. And they include AMD PRO business ready features that give SMB decision makers the consistency and platform stability that's required to simplify IT planning:

• 18 months of planned software stability
• 24 months of planned availability
• Enterprise-grade quality assurance and reliability
• Planned platform validation to ensure dependability and a consistent user experience across multiple generations, including:
• OS updates
• Firmware/BIOS updates
• Driver updates

SMB leaders and IT managers have enough on their plates. That makes laptops with AMD Ryzen™ PRO processors, with their built-in fleet management and platform longevity features, an especially smart choice—for today and tomorrow.

¹ Max boost for AMD Ryzen processors is the maximum frequency achievable by a single core on the processor running a bursty single-threaded workload. Max boost will vary based on several factors, including, but not limited to: thermal paste; system cooling; motherboard design and BIOS; the latest AMD chipset driver; and the latest OS updates. (GD-150)

² Based on AMD internal analysis, January 2021, comparing the Ryzen 9 5900HS, Ryzen 7 5800U, and Ryzen 7 5700U mobile processor with 11th gen Intel Core i7 processors at 35W and below, which offer four (4) cores. (CZM-27)

³ Testing as of 2/24/2021 by AMD Performance Labs utilizing Dell Latitude 5420 with Intel Core i7-1185G7 processor, Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, 32 GBytes RAM - 3200 MHz, PC711 NVMe SK hynix 512GB Drive with Win Pro vs. ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 with AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 5850U processor, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, 32 GBytes RAM - 3200 MHz, SKHynix_HFS001TDE9X081N Drive with Win Pro Using the following tests: CineBench R20 n-thread, Geekbench v5.1.1 Multi-Core Score (64-bit), Passmark 10 CPU Mark, PCMark® 10 Benchmark, PCMark® 10 Gimp Cold App Startup (TTC) seconds, PCMark® 10 App Performance_Excel. PC manufacturers may vary configurations yielding different results. Results may vary. PCMark® is a registered trademark of Futuremark Corporation. (CZP-38)

⁴ All battery life claims are approximate maximum and based on testing by Lenovo. AMD has not independently tested or verified the battery life claim.

⁵ Full system memory encryption with AMD Memory Guard is included in AMD Ryzen™ PRO, AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper PRO, and AMD Athlon™ PRO processors. (PP-3)