AMD Ryzen AI Max 'Strix Halo' monster APU is official: 16C/32T Zen 5 CPU, 40-core RDNA 3.5 GPU

AMD has just formally announced its new Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" APUs with the new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip featuring 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 power, 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU, up to 50 TOPs of AI performance, and up to 256GB/sec memory bandwidth.

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The new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 features 16 cores and 32 threads at up to 5.1GHz boost, 80MB of cache, 50 TOPs of AI performance out of the XDNA 2 NPU, 40 Compute Units of RDNA 3.5 GPU performance (up from 16 CUs on Strix Point APUs, so over double the gaming performance) and between 45W and 120W TDP.

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AMD compared its new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU against Intel's new Core Ultrra 9 288V "Lunar Lake" mobile processor, with the flagship Strix Halo APU offering an average of 1.4x higher graphics performance. AMD touted 220%+ improvements in the entire stack of 3DMark benchmarks, but missed actual gaming benchmarks.

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In 3D rendering performance, the new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip thrashes Intel's new Core Ultra 9 288V processor with an average of 2.6x the performance with its new Strix Halo APU versus the Lunar Lake chip. Intel's new Lunar Lake offering is a 17-30W part, but at its minimum the Strix Halo APU has 45W (up to 120W) to play with, giving AMD a 2.5x advantage with TDP.

AMD took a couple of swipes at Apple and its higher-end M4 Pro chip inside of the MacBook M4 Pro laptop, with its new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU keeping up with, and beating Apple's 12-core, and 14-core M4 Pro configurations.

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We can expect AMD's new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU to be found inside of a huge range of products this year, including the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet (which looks awesome, by the way).l