Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and different chip corporations normally have some sort of information to announce at CES to kick off the yr, however a few of these bulletins are extra fascinating than others. Generally you see new chips with vital velocity boosts and different new applied sciences, and typically you get rebranded variations of previous silicon meant to fill out a lineup or make an current structure appear newer and extra thrilling than it’s.
AMD’s Ryzen CPU bulletins this yr fall firmly into the latter camp—these are all gently tweaked variants of chips that launched in 2024 and 2025.
“New,” for sure values of “new”
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These Ryzen AI 400-series chips are barely sooner than, however in any other case functionally equivalent to, the Ryzen AI 300 sequence.
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Barely larger CPU clock speeds, NPU speeds, and supported RAM speeds will separate Ryzen AI 400 from Ryzen AI 300.
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These Ryzen AI 400-series chips are barely sooner than, however in any other case functionally equivalent to, the Ryzen AI 300 sequence.
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Barely larger CPU clock speeds, NPU speeds, and supported RAM speeds will separate Ryzen AI 400 from Ryzen AI 300.
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Core specs for the new-ish chips.
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The corresponding Ryzen Professional chips for enterprise PCs.
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Core specs for the new-ish chips.
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The corresponding Ryzen Professional chips for enterprise PCs.
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Let’s begin with the Ryzen AI 400 sequence. Formally the follow-up to the Ryzen AI 300 chips announced in June 2024, these processors provide some modest clock velocity enhancements and sooner reminiscence help. The brand new Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 has a peak increase clock velocity of 5.2 GHz and help for LPDDR5x-8533, for instance, up from 5.1 GHz and LPDDR5x-8000 for the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, and its built-in neural processing unit (NPU) is able to 60 trillion operations per second (TOPS) fairly than 50 TOPS.
However past these modest tweaks, Ryzen AI 400 chips are constructed from the identical constructing blocks as Ryzen AI 300. They use a mix of high-performance Zen 5 CPU cores and smaller, extra environment friendly Zen 5c cores, between 4 and 16 built-in GPU cores based mostly on the RDNA 3 GPU structure, and a 4 nm TSMC manufacturing course of.
This isn’t new conduct from AMD. A few processor generations in the past (and one processor naming scheme in the past), the corporate did the identical factor with the Ryzen 8040-series laptop chips, sprucing up the older 7040 series with marginally larger clock speeds and never a lot else. The upshot is that if you will get a good low cost on a Ryzen AI 300 system as a result of it’s “previous,” you should purchase it with out lacking a lot.
