AMD introduced at Computex 2024 its subsequent technology of Ryzen laptop computer processors for generative AI workloads: the Ryzen AI 300 Collection. It’s a re-brand of its top-tier Ryzen 9 chips. The brand new naming conference nonetheless contains the HX suffix AMD launched in 2022, but it surely doesn’t point out what number of watts of energy the chip attracts. As a substitute, HX will merely seek advice from “high of stack” or the most effective and quickest Ryzen AI 300 chip.
The brand new Ryzen AI chips are constructed on AMD’s newest architectures for neural, built-in graphics, and basic processing: XDNA2 for the NPU, RDNA 3.5 for the iGPU, which now has as much as 16 compute items, and Zen 5 for the CPU. The primary two processors on this sequence are the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365. Each have 50 TOPS NPU, however the HX variant is the higher-end of the 2.
The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is a 12-core/24-thread chip with a 5.1GHz max clock pace, 36MB cache, and Radeon 890M graphics. The Ryzen AI 9 365 is a 10-core/12-thread chip with a 5.0GHz max clock pace, 34 MB cache, and Radeon 880M graphics.
AMD claims its XDNA2 NPU has 5 instances extra compute capability and twice the ability effectivity in comparison with last-gen’s due it its distinctive FP16 “block” or NPU structure that may course of each 8-bit efficiency (INT8) and 16-bit accuracy (FP16) generative AI workloads with out quantization. Quantization is a typical methodology for rising the ability effectivity of AI fashions (one thing Qualcomm makes use of in its smartphone chips), or changing enter values from a big dataset to output values in a smaller dataset. Sadly, it might additionally tank the AI fashions’ accuracy. However AMD’s new chips can supposedly run each forms of mathematical equations with none conversion, so AI workloads might be processed each rapidly and precisely.
Beginning July 2024, Ryzen AI 300 is coming to among the identical Copilot Plus PCs (laptops) introduced at Microsoft’s current Floor occasion: the Asus Vivobook S 15 and HP OmniBook. Different laptops AI laptops embrace MSI’s Stealth A16, Summit A16, Status A16, and Creator A16; Asus’ Zenbook S 16, Vivobook S 14 and 16, and ProArt P16/X13, together with the Rog Zephyrus G16 and Tuf A14/A16 gaming laptops; and extra ThinkBooks, ThinkPads, and Yogas from Lenovo.