AMD’s upcoming Ryzen AI 400 series of laptop APUs, dubbed ‘Gorgon Point,’ will arrive in the first quarter of 2026, the company announced at CES. The refreshed lineup still sports up to 12 Zen 5 CPU cores and up to 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, but comes with increased frequency and memory support, as well as a souped-up XDNA 2 NPU. Alongside the laptop lineup, AMD announced the first Copilot+ desktop processor, as well as two new entries in its Strix Halo lineup.
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There are seven chips in the laptop range, with the highest-end SKU being the Ryzen AI 9 HX 475. That chip comes with the full Gorgon Point die, including 12 Zen 5 cores, 24 threads, 36MB of combined L2 and L3 cache, 60 NPU TOPS, 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores that can boost up to 3.1 GHz, and support for memory speeds up to 8,533 MT/s. Ryzen AI 300 chips, dubbed ‘Strix Point,’ topped out at LPDDR5X-8000.
You can see the full mobile lineup from AMD below (we don't have much information on that desktop chip). Although AMD has bumped memory speeds on some of the range, the bottom three SKUs still top out at 8,000 MT/s.
Swipe to scroll horizontally Model Cores/Threads Arch CPU Base Clock CPU Boost Clock cTDP Cache (L2+L3) Memory speed NPU TOPS iGPU CUs GPU Boost Clock Ryzen AI 9 HX 475 12 / 24 4x Zen 5 / 8x Zen 5c 2 GHz 5.2 GHz 15-54W 36MB 8533MT/s 60 Radeon 890M 16 3.1 GHz Ryzen AI HX 470 12 / 24 4x Zen 5 / 8x Zen 5c 2 GHz 5.2 GHz 15-54W 36MB 8533MT/s 55 Radeon 890M 16 3.1 GHz Ryzen AI 9 465 10 / 20 4x Zen 5 / 6x Zen 5c 2 GHz 5 GHz 15-54W 34MB 8533MT/s 50 Radeon 880M 12 2.9 GHz Ryzen AI 7 450 8 / 16 4x Zen 5 / 4x Zen 5c 2 GHz 5.1 GHz 15-54W 24MB 8533MT/s 50 Radeon 860M 8 3.1 GHz Ryzen AI 7 445 6/12 2x Zen 5 / 4x Zen 5c 2 GHz 4.6 GHz 15-54W 14MB 8000MT/s 50 Radeon 840M 4 2.9 GHz Ryzen AI 5 435 6 / 12 2x Zen 5 / 4x Zen 5c 2 GHz 4.5 GHz 15-54W 14MB 8000MT/s 50 Radeon 840M 4 2.8 GHz Ryzen AI 5 340 4 / 8 1x Zen 5 / 3x Zen 5c 2 GHz 4.5 GHz 15-54W 12MB 8000MT/s 50 Radeon 840M 4 2.8 GHz
AMD uses the same mixture of Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores on its Gorgan Point SKUs as it did on Strix Point SKUs across most of the lineup. The Zen 5c cores are roughly 25% smaller than a standard Zen 5 core, and they deliver the same performance with like-for-like clock speeds. However, it’s a space-optimized design. They’re clocked lower than standard Zen 5 cores, and peak frequency is designed around the few full-fat Zen 5 cores available on Gorgan Point.
All of the Ryzen AI 9 models, as well as the Ryzen AI 7 450, come with four Zen 5 cores, with the remaining core count comprised of Zen 5c. The Ryzen AI 7 445 and Ryzen AI 4 435, both six-core/12-thread chips, have two Zen 5 and four Zen 5c cores, while the four-core Ryzen AI 5 430 comes with a single full Zen 5 core. Read our technical deep-dive on the Zen 5 architecture to learn more about the differences between Zen 5 and Zen 5c.
AMD uses the same process as it did with Strix Point, which is TSMC’s N4X node. It’s an enhanced version of TSMC’s 5nm process with higher density.
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Although AMD is light on gen-on-gen benchmarks, Gorgon Point looks like a minor refresh. The flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX 475 features just a minor 100MHz bump in boost clock speed alongside increased memory speed support. We’ve seen similar lateral spec moves from AMD with its past mobile releases, such as when the company moved from the Ryzen 9 7940HS to the Ryzen 9 8945HS. We’ll have to wait and see if there are any major performance improvements, however.
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