Aside from the Ryzen 9000 series desktop PCs, AMD also announced at COMPUTEX 2024 its new Ryzen AI 300 processors that are meant for laptops. As their answer to Intel’s Core Ultra processors, the Ryzen AI 300 series utilize the latest Zen 5 CPU cores, along with RDNA 3.5 graphics and XDNA 2 NPU.
Leading the lineup is the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, which comes with 12 cores, 24 threads, a maximum boost clock speed of 5.1Ghz, an NPU with up to 50 Tera Operations per Second (TOPS) and a Radeon 890M integrated graphics. There’s also a toned-down version with the Ryzen AI 9 365, which has 10 cores, 20 threads, a maximum boost clock speed of 5.0Ghz, an NPU with up to 50 TOPS and a Radeon 880M integrated graphics.
One of AMD’s bold claims with the Ryzen AI 300’s XDNA 2 NPU is that its TOPS is higher than what the competition currently offers–Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite peaks out at 45 TOPS, while Apple’s M4 peaks out at 38 TOPS.
To further bolster its confidence against what Qualcomm has to offer, AMD claims that its Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 offers as much as 60% better performance with graphics-related tasks and up to 30% better performance in multitasking as compared to the Snapdragon X Elite. Those are bold claims considering Snapdragon X-powered laptops are yet to be commercially available, so it’s something everyone (including us) would like to test and see if AMD’s claims are true.
Compared to Apple’s M3, which is widely available, AMD claims that the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has almost double the performance when it comes to 3D rendering and as much as 70% better multitasking performance. Considering how Apple’s M series chips have become the benchmark for the past 4 years, we’re really curious if AMD’s claim do hold true.
AMD even touts the Ryzen AI 300 series as the better processor for gaming compared to Intel’s Core Ultra, with an average improvement of 36% for most games–again, these are bold claims from AMD, and we have to try them out ourselves to see if these claims are true.
As for availability, ASUS and MSI will be among the first brands to launch laptops powered by these new chips, with Acer, HP, and Lenovo expected to announce their own offerings later this year.
