What simply occurred? An upcoming AMD Strix Halo APU has popped up on Geekbench, shedding some gentle on its key specs. The chip in query is the Ryzen AI Max+ Professional 395, which is anticipated to be the flagship SKU within the first-generation Ryzen AI Max lineup.
As per the itemizing, the APU can have 16 Zen 5 cores and 32 threads, a base clock of three.0 GHz, and a max frequency of 4.4 GHz. It’s anticipated to ship with 64MB of L3 and 16 MB of L2 cache. The processor will even make the most of a Radeon 8060S iGPU based mostly on the identical RDNA 3.5 structure because the Ryzen AI 300 “Strix” lineup.
Transferring on to the benchmark outcomes, the Ryzen AI Max+ Professional 395 scored 67,004 factors within the Vulkan API check, which is larger than the 63,264 factors notched up by the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 cellular GPU. Nevertheless, since that is solely the preliminary benchmark rating, we are able to count on it to get even sooner after just a few driver and firmware updates.
The AI Max+ Professional 395 was examined on the AMD MAPLE-STXH reference analysis board, suggesting that it’s nonetheless being examined internally by AMD. The testbed used 64GB of quad-channel DDR5 SDRAM working at 1,994 MT/s, and was powered by 64-bit Home windows 11 Professional.
An earlier Geekbench itemizing had leaked the Ryzen AI Max 390, which is anticipated to be the second-most highly effective chip within the upcoming sequence. The Ryzen AI Max 385 and Ryzen AI Max 380 are mentioned to make up the remainder of the lineup. All will characteristic Zen 5 CPU cores and RDNA 3.5 iGPUs.
The 390 is rumored to have 12 cores and 24 threads, whereas the 385 will characteristic 8 cores and 16 threads. The entry-level SKU, the AI Max 380, can have 6 cores and 12 threads. Default TDPs are anticipated to be between 55W and 130W.
Transferring to the iGPUs, the highest two SKUs will reportedly ship with the Radeon 8060S with 40 compute models, whereas the AI Max 385 is claimed to characteristic the Radeon 8050S with 32 CUs. The 380 is anticipated to solely have 16 CUs, although the leaks didn’t specify the precise iGPU mannequin.
AMD is rumored to unveil the Strix Halo lineup at its press occasion at CES 2025 subsequent month. Different bulletins may embrace Krackan Level APUs, RDNA 4 GPUs, and extra.
