AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 'Gorgon Halo' APU spotted on PassMark with a new Radeon 8065S GPU

Information about AMD's APU refresh is starting to surface. As earlier reports suggest, the upcoming Ryzen AI APU lineup will be split into "Gorgon Point" and "Gorgon Halo" models, with the latter being the more premium option. Recently, performance benchmarks of the flagship Gorgon Halo model, the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, have appeared on PassMark.

According to the database, the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 is the Halo flagship based on the Zen 5 architecture, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads. The boost clock is reported to be up to 5.2 GHz, which is a 100 MHz bump over the current "Strix Halo" APUs. Another change is in the memory configuration, with the new AI Max+ PRO 495 reportedly supporting 192GB of LPDDR5X memory, compared to the 128GB supported on the Strix Halo flagship.

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Performance is also a point of conversation, but these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt since there is only one sample of the AI Max+ PRO 495 on the site right now. Per PassMark, the Gorgon Halo flagship is 3% faster than the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 in single-threaded performance and 4% faster in multi-core performance. If we compare the Max+ PRO 495 to the Max+ PRO 395, the difference is 4.8% in single-threaded tasks and 10% in multi-threaded tasks.

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Another notable point in the PassMark database is the GPU, the Radeon 8065S. This new RDNA 3.5 GPU is supposedly an overclocked version of the current Radeon 8060S. The new 8065S has a 100 MHz bump in clock speed compared to the older model, but there is no indication of a core count change in the database.

AMD is expected to launch the new Ryzen AI Max 400 "Gorgon Halo" APUs later this year, or early next year at the latest. The current APU lineup, Strix Halo, was recently updated; we can expect AMD to stick with it for the time being. It will be interesting to see where the Gorgon Halo APUs fit in the current market landscape, alongside Intel's Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake.