StonePC Lite (Ryzen)

Corporate buyers take note: AMD’s Ryzen 4000 Pro Series of chips are a genuine match for IntelvPro

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICESSTONEBLT-018,£389(£467incVAT); STONEBLT-019, £459 (£551 inc VAT); STONEBLT-020, £579 (£695 inc VAT) from stonepcgroup.co.uk Stone is one of the UK’s biggest suppliers of computers to both education and local government. It tends to avoid the limelight of reviews, but this trio of StonePC Lite systems – called STONEBLT-018 for the Ryzen 3 version, STONEBLT-019 for the Ryzen 5 and STONEBLT-020 with a Ryzen 7 – are exceptional. They’re the first computers we’ve seen with AMD’s Ryzen Pro 4000 chips inside, and while they will never garner the headlines of Ryzen’s 5000 Series (see p52), it’s easy to see their appeal to IT managers. Ryzen 4000 Pro unwrapped First, we need to break down AMD’s mystifying naming conventions, because in essence the 4000 Series of desktop chips is simply the 3000 Series with Radeon graphics. That…

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