AMD’s Next Big Chip Hopes To Beat Nvidia’s CPUs While They’re in the Crib
AMD is launching its new Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 chip to compete with Nvidia's upcoming laptop CPUs. This chip features a Zen 5 CPU with 16 cores and 32 threads, but retains the older RDNA 3.5 GPU architecture. AMD aims to attract AI developers with its new offerings while facing stiff competition from Nvidia and Intel.
- ▪The Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 chip boasts a boost clock speed of 5.2GHz and is designed to run a 300 billion parameter AI model independently.
- ▪AMD has also introduced lower-spec models, including the Ryzen AI Max Pro 490 and 485, with fewer cores and a smaller GPU.
- ▪The Ryzen AI Halo platform is a compact AI developer solution that supports a 2TB SSD and 128GB of unified memory.
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AMD is trying to give Nvidia’s long-rumored laptop CPUs a run for their money before they’re even out the door. To do this, AMD is making its most powerful processor with the latest Ryzen AI Halo chips that—hopefully—won’t be a no-show like its recent Ryzen AI 400 laptop CPUs. The newly revealed Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 chip seems like a beast, at least on paper. The main draw is the newer Zen 5 CPU, which features 16 cores and 32 threads with a boost clock speed of 5.2GHz. However, the new chip has the same old RDNA 3.5 GPU microarchitecture that’s inside the previous-generation Ryzen AI Max+ 395. That Radeon 8065S graphics chip includes 40 compute units (the name AMD gives to its core clusters).
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