AMD Ryzen 9000, Ryzen AI 300 Series processors with AI capabilities unveiled

AMD announced its next generation of processors to fuel the growing artificial intelligence (AI) wave at its Computex 2024 event on Sunday. The company unveiled four new Ryzen 9000 series chipsets for gamers and heavy workloads and two new Ryzen AI 300 series chipsets to power AI PCs. This CPU is built on AMD’s latest Zen 5 architecture and comes with an integrated GPU and Neural Processing Units (NPU). The chipmaker claimed that Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors can deliver 16 percent better performance than their predecessors.

AMD Ryzen AI 300 series processors unveiled

The Ryzen AI 300 series consists of Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 CPUs. Following a naming convention introduced in 2022, HX appears in the name of a top-of-the-tier desktop processor. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 chipset includes 12 high-performance Zen 5 cores and 24 threads with a maximum clock speed of 5.1GHz. It has Radeon 890M graphics and 36MB cache.

Meanwhile, the Ryzen AI 9 365 chipset features a 10-core high-performance Zen 5 core and 12 threads with a maximum clock speed of 5.0GHz. It gets Radeon 880M graphics and has 34MB of cache. In addition to using the Zen 5 architecture for the CPU, AMD also used the XDNA2 architecture to create the NPU that powers AI experiences for desktop users. Both processors have NPUs capable of 50 tera operations per second (TOPS).

These chipsets will be available in July and can be seen in some of the Copilot+ PCs on display at Microsoft’s Surface event. The first of these will be the Asus Vivobook S 15 and the HP OmniBook.

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Chipsets Unveiled for Gamers, Creators

During the keynote session, AMD also introduced the Ryzen 9000 series chipsets that include the Ryzen 9 9950X, Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X CPUs. The Ryzen 9 9950X is the most powerful processor in the range and gets a 32 thread CPU with 16 high-performance Zen 5 cores and 80MB of L2+L3 cache. Its base clock speed is 4.3GHz and max clock speed is 5.7GHz.

Designed for gamers, AMD says the Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors can deliver higher frame rates, smoother gameplay and improved performance in a wide range of AAA and esports titles. The company also claimed that the processors will offer faster 3D rendering, animation design and product visualization. This too will be launched in July. However, AMD has not revealed the prices of any of the chipsets.