AMD Ryzen AI 400 official: Will these laptop chips maintain AMD’s lead?
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."
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 b …