(Image credit: AMD) (Image credit: AMD) (Image credit: AMD) (Image credit: AMD) In total, AMD says it will have over 200 commercial designs available with its PRO chips, but that includes mobile offerings as well. Some of the OEMs AMD is working with include Acer, Asus, Dell , HP, and Lenovo. As you can see in the slide above, AMD is featuring smaller desktop designs, which is likely where we’ll see Ryzen AI 400 desktop chips in action.
In addition to desktop offerings, AMD is introducing its Ryzen AI PRO 400 series for mobile, which mirrors the consumer lineup in the product naming and specs, as you can see in the table above. With both the mobile and desktop offerings, the PRO validation is what sets these chips apart from AMD’s consumer lineup. AMD includes additional features, like a multi-layer security ecosystem and manageability for IT administrators.
We should see designs with these CPUs roll out shortly. We’ve asked AMD if we can expect the lineup to expand up to AMD’s 12-core Gorgon Point design that we see on mobile. We’ve also asked about the fate of the long-rumored Ryzen 9000G APU lineup, though we don’t expect much news on that front at this time.
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thestryker Not that the APUs are ever really a great choice for desktop users since they have cut down cache not even matching the 8700G with any SKUs is a choice. Reply
Notton I don't even know what AMD is attempting with their desktop APU lineup. 8CU on a R7? What happened to the 12CU config of the 8700G? If this 8CU were RDNA4.0, then it might have made sense, but it's RDNA3.5 from Jan-2023. Why would you even buy a 4CU config when the regular CPU lineup already has 2CU and both are fairly worthless when it comes to gaming? Reply
democog Good and all, but AMD should really reconsider their marketing.. I mean they, obviously, have great GPUs but the market share is abysmal.. why? Obviously, most people with NVidia cards are gamers, maybe they do not even know what CUDA is.. so all that leaves us with AMD's failed marketing: the naming of their GPU drivers or AI accelerators is so "offensive", akin to medical emergencies, that when people, even going close to one of their GPUs, will raise ..blood pressure to unprecedented levels 🙂 Reply
cyrusfox Anemic offering. Although perfect for business machines or terminals. Not of much interested to the enthusiast, and this is a very competitive market going against Intel. The whole AI angle has yet to take off. No need for a dedicated NPU/TOPS. CPU and GPU more than capable. Who is calling for NPU on a desktop with minimum TOPS capability outside Microsoft? Reply
gggplaya Keep in mind that most Ryzen 7000 and 9000 CPU's already have an iGPU in the I/O die with 2CU. Perfectly fine for office and student work. I think AMD missed the mark here. If buying an APU, people want 8 core/ 16threads and the full 890M 16CU GPU. The 860m is not enough. It's like the normal CPU's with 2CU are your Toyota Corollas and they're fine for what they do. Then they release this sexy sportscar with a good chassis, but only give it a 150hp engine. That's what this CPU with an 860M is and no one really wants it. Reply
timsSOFTWARE What I would like to see in "AI" chips/systems is the fastest they can give us in terms of AI TOPS, and configurations starting at 128GB and going up from there to 1TB+ of RAM. Labeling something that can't run any of the models most people would like to run as "AI" makes it nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Reply
russell_john Windows 12 will require a CPU with a NPU built in. That's not a prediction, that is a spoiler …….. And AI Slop will no longer be optional but a hard requirement and impossible to turn off. Reply
russell_john timsSOFTWARE said: What I would like to see in "AI" chips/systems is the fastest they can give us in terms of AI TOPS, and configurations starting at 128GB and going up from there to 1TB+ of RAM. Labeling something that can't run any of the models most people would like to run as "AI" makes it nothing more than a marketing gimmick. The NPU isn't for LLMs, it's for Windows' AI Slop …… Co-Pilot will be a hard requirement in Windows 12 and Co-Pilot needs a dedicated NPU to work properly. Reply
vossile As a tech person the view tends to be biased towards tech and all I know about tech. The marketing is likely smart for everyday people who are not CPU/GPU savvy or feel that 50TOPS NPU just doesn't cut it. Microsoft calls for Copilot, AMD has something to offer. CPU/GPU computing has hit the commodity wall and these "AI Chips" are the harbinger of what the next gen will look like. Interestingly, the RAM shortage is likely to make companies thing about modularising their setups again – hopefully finally all the way across the system. Here's me hoping that we'lll get some sort of RAM upgradability in graphics cards and AI-memory (as a 3rd/4th type of memory). That would be nice. Much like the SCSI-Cache cards of the 90s. Reply
Hotrod2go 8700G users have no reason to update. 😉 Reply
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