Computex 2024 sees AMD making a bold move in the AI PC race with its latest Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 9000 chips.These powerhouses, designed for laptops and desktops respectively, promise to deliver significantly improved performance, especially in AI tasks.
The star of the show is the Ryzen AI 300 series for notebooks, featuring a souped-up NPU with a whopping 50 TOPS of AI performance – a threefold increase over AMD’s previous laptop hardware. This positions AMD as a serious contender in Microsoft’s Copilot+ initiative, which sets a high bar for AI PC capabilities.
While battery life remains a question mark, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 chips are already raising eyebrows with their impressive benchmark results, beating Apple’s M3 and Intel’s Core Ultra 185H in Blender.
AMD’s Zen 5 architecture, underpinning both chip series, brings major upgrades in branch prediction, throughput, and instruction bandwidth, promising a more responsive and efficient computing experience.
Desktop users aren’t left out either, with the Ryzen 9000 series offering up to 16 cores and a staggering 5.7GHz boost speed in the Ryzen 9 9950X. While it’s a power-hungry chip, it’s perfect for those who demand top-tier performance.Other options like the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 7 9700X cater to more moderate needs.
Alongside these chips, AMD introduced new chipsets and refreshed older AM4 hardware with the Ryzen 9 5900XT and Ryzen 7 5800XT.
Pricing details are still under wraps, but expect to see Ryzen AI 300 laptops and Ryzen 9000 desktop chips hitting the market in July. This includes ASUS ZenBook S 16 and Zephyrus G16 models, as well as the MSI Stealth A16 AI+.
