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There are three SKUs that align with the three original Strix Halo models (not the updated versions with 40 CUs). The top-end X199 comes with 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs. The X188 steps down to 12 cores and 32 CUs, while the X168 comes with eight cores and the same 32 CUs. AMD hasn’t shared detailed specifications for each model, but the company says the range goes up to a 5.1 GHz boost clock and 128 GB of unified memory. They also include an XDNA 2 NPU with up to 50 TOPS, a configurable TDP between 45W and 120W, and operating temperature between -40 degrees Celsius up to 105 degrees.
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AMD’s range bites back at Intel, which launched a range of Panther Lake SoCs for physical AI at the beginning of the year. Both make an argument for SoCs in robotics, reducing latency when the CPU, AI accelerator, and memory are fragmented across separate chips. The X100 range is just physically larger than Panther Lake, packing much more silicon on the SoC for more powerful deployments.
The company shared a range of benchmarks comparing the flagship X199 against Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H, a 16-core chip with Intel’s Arc B390 iGPU that has 12 Xe3 cores. AMD claims a lead of 1.2X and 1.3X, respectively, in GeekBench 6.1 and PassMark, as well as 1.5X in an unofficial SPECrate 2017 run looking at integer workloads. In graphics, AMD unsurprisingly takes the edge with 1.4X faster Vulkan and 1.7X faster OpenGL performance (both measured with GFXBench 5 on Ubuntu), as well as a 1.6X lead in Unigine Heaven Extreme.
On the physical AI front, AMD claims a 1.4X improvement in Time to First Token (TTFT) and 3.5X faster tokens per second in Llama-bench, with a Vulkan backend running at a 45W TDP. These results need a massive dash of salt, however.
AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 ‘Gorgon Halo’ packs up to 192GB of unified memory
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-new-x100-chip-lineup-puts-strix-halo-into-robots-apus-for-physical-ai-bring-zen-5-cpu-rdna-3-5-gpu-cores-to-compete-with-intels-panther-lake#main
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