At CES 2025 instantly, AMD debuted its new Ryzen 9 9955HX3D cell 3D V cache-based processor, alongside the 9950X3D and 9900X3D desktop chips. It moreover unveiled Ryzen 200 sequence CPUs for the mainstream.

Furthermore these, AMD moreover expanded its Ryzen AI 300 sequence APU lineup instantly that so far comprised of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, 370, and 365 and their corresponding PRO counterparts. On one hand, the company is bringing additional moderately priced AI chips with the model new Ryzen AI 7 (PRO) 350 and Ryzen AI 5 (PRO) 340. Then once more, it’s often debuting additional extremely efficient Ryzen AI Max and Max+ SKUs.

In case you have not been following, an NPU should do over 40 TOPS which is the sting for qualifying Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC requirement. Thus the newly launched Ryzen 200 sequence for example does not qualify since they excessive out at merely 16 TOPS.

Going forward, the company is dividing its AI PC chips into three classes: Halo, Premium, and Superior. The model new Max and Max+ SKUs will comprise the Halo part, the Ryzen AI 9 could be the Premium tier, and ultimately, the Ryzen AI 7/5 will belong to the Superior class.

The model new Max+ parts are being touted very extraordinarily as AMD claims effectivity administration over the likes of Nvidia RTX 4090, Apple M4 Skilled, and Intel Extraordinarily 9 288V all through quite a few duties. As an illustration, the company says that its new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU is on widespread 2.6 cases before Intel 288V in rendering and spherical 1.4 cases sooner in (synthetic) gaming.

In distinction in opposition to Apple’s 14-core M4 Skilled, AMD expects greater effectivity on the Max+ 395 in rendering with Blender, Corona, and V-Ray, with V-Ray exhibiting in all probability essentially the most favorable end result.

Lastly, the Max+ 395 has been in distinction in opposition to Nvidia RTX 4090 the place AMD as quickly as as soon as extra claims victory as a result of the Max+ is claimed to be 2.2 cases sooner in AI processing (in tokens/second) on LM Studio. The company boasts regarding the 395 proper right here claiming it as “the World’s first Copilot PC+ processor to run 70B LLM”.

AMD added that its Max APU can allocate as a lot as 96 GB of memory to the built-in 40 CU RDNA 3.5 graphics portion out of the complete 128 GB of memory that is on the market to it.

In case you’re questioning how the model new Ryzen AI Max+ APUs are so extremely efficient, that’s on account of it has 16 Zen 5 cores on the CPU facet, equivalent to the Ryzen 9955HX(3D), and it moreover packs 40 RDNA 3.5 comput fashions (CUs), and ultimately a 50 TOPS succesful XDNA 2 NPU.

What’s attention-grabbing with the Halo Copilot+ (Max and Max+) class of AMD Ryzen AI processors is that these SKUs attribute a “new memory interface” which the company refers to as “Unified Coherent Memory Construction.” Due to this new interface, the Ryzen AI Max and Max+ APUs take pleasure in a memory bandwidth of as a lot as 256 GB/s.

The image above reveals the full Ryzen AI 300 Max and Max+ lineup along with their availabilities.

Other than effectivity data of the Max+ APU, AMD has moreover shared the best way it expects the Ryzen AI 7 350 to compete in opposition to Intel and Qualcomm. In response to the equipped figures, the company expects the 350 APU to be as a lot as 49% greater than the Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100, and as a lot as 78% before Intel Core Extraordinarily 7 258V.

You presumably can confirm the full specs and availability of the Ryzen AI 350 and 340 throughout the image above.