Highlights:

  • The Ryzen AI Max+ 395, the flagship processor in the product series, has 16 cores and is built on AMD’s most recent Zen 5 CPU architecture.
  • AMD unveiled three additional product families at CES along with its new high-end laptop CPUs.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. launched a processor series for laptops that can execute AI models quicker than standalone graphical processors.

At CES, the business unveiled the chips along with a number of other new products. These additional CPUs are designed with gaming laptops, portable gaming devices, and desktop computers in mind.

Four processors are available at launch in the Ryzen AI Max Series, a new line of AI-optimized laptop chips. AMD claims that each chip has an integrated graphics processing unit, a neural processing unit, and a central processing unit.

The Ryzen AI Max+ 395, the flagship processor in the product series, has 16 cores and is built on AMD’s most recent Zen 5 CPU architecture. In order to save time, CPUs have a branch prediction mechanism that predicts what an application will do next and finishes the work beforehand. To improve performance, Zen 5’s branch prediction system may forecast two code routes, or future application workflows, rather than just one.

40 compute units, or the graphics card equivalent of a core, make up the Ryzen AI Max+ 395’s integrated GPU. RDNA 3.5 serves as the foundation for the compute units. A high-performance version of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s four-nanometer node is used to create this version of RDNA 3, a GPU architecture that AMD first unveiled in 2022.

Up to 128 gigabytes of memory can be found in laptops with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor. The GPU, CPU, and NPU of the chip share memory by default. To improve the performance, it offers for AI models, customers have the option to devote the majority of the RAM to the GPU.

AMD ran a version of the Llama 70B large language model on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 as part of an internal test. The business claims its new chip consumed less power and delivered 2.2 times faster performance than the standalone RTX 4090 GPU from Nvidia Corp. In general, standalone GPUs outperform their CPU-integrated counterparts by a considerable margin.

Together with three other Ryzen AI Max Series CPUs that share a similar architecture but have fewer cores and slower clock rates, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is being released. Both consumer and business versions of the chips are offered. AMD’s Pro software is included in the latter models. It provides IT teams with troubleshooting and cybersecurity tools.

A standalone GPU is typically included in laptops designed for playing video games. AMD is introducing a range of CPUs known as the Ryzen 9000HX Series for these devices. The chips in the series lack an integrated graphics card since they are made to function with a separate GPU.

The Ryzen 9955 HX3D is the product lineup’s flagship processor. It has 16 cores, just like the AI-optimized Ryzen AI Max+ 395, but it can reach a maximum frequency of 5.4 gigahertz, which is 300 megahertz higher. The Ryzen 9955 HX3D also boasts a much larger 128-megabyte cache.

AMD unveiled three additional product families at CES along with its new high-end laptop CPUs.

The company’s previous generation Zen 4 chip design serves as the foundation for the Ryzen 200 series of entry-level laptop processors. With eight CPU cores, a GPU built on the RDNA 3 architecture, and an NPU capable of 16 trillion operations per second, this is the most powerful chip in the series.

AMD is introducing two new CPUs, the Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D, for desktop computers. Their respective Zen 5 CPU core counts are 16 and 12. The Ryzen Z2, a processor series that combines up to eight Zen 5 cores with an RDNA 3.5 graphics card and is intended to power portable gaming devices, will be released alongside them.