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We were rightly skeptical of AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 “Strix Point” laptop chips in 2024. Now they’re in some of the very best laptops you can buy, arguably hitting the sweet spot of price, performance, and battery life.
Today at CES, AMD is announcing its successor, the Ryzen AI 400 line — but there’s nothing particularly next-gen about “Gorgon Point.”
AMD’s speeds and feeds for the new chips. Image: AMD
They’re based on the exact same Zen 5 and Zen 5c CPU cores, with the same RDNA 3.5 graphics, and have the same exact number of cores as their predecessors, too — a “475” has 12 cores, 24 threads, and 16 graphics CUs like a “375” did, and so on down the stack.
The main differences are a slight boost to CPU and GPU frequency, more memory bandwidth, and a faster NPU for AI tasks in the top two models. The HX 475 now offers 60 TOPS, while the HX 470 offers 55.
They’re similar enough that AMD largely dodged a question about how much faster they are when we asked, instead comparing them against Intel’s Lunar Lake (not the new Panther Lake) chips:
Compared to Intel Core Ultra 9 288V. Image: AMD
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