AMD Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point CPUs get marginal RAM speed upgrade

AMD's Strix Point-powered laptops have been around for a while. Chips such as the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 have also started making their way into handheld consoles. However, early adopters of AMD's Zen 5-based laptop silicon may have gotten a raw deal because the company has given all future Strix Point SKUs a stealthy under-the-hood upgrade.

X leaker @AnhPhuH spotted the change on AMD's official website. Ryzen AI chips now support LPDDR5X-8000 memory, 500 MT/s faster than LPDDR5-7500 found on the original. Exactly when this change was implemented is unknown, but it seems to have been there for a while. For non-soldered solutions, that figure remains the same at DDR5-5600. However, the platform will now only support up to two DIMMs running at DDR5-5600 instead of four. The maximum amount of memory supported by Strix Point remains same at 256 GB.

The marginal increase in memory speed should, on paper, come with a corresponding bump in GPU performance. Other Strix Point-based SKUs, such as the 2025-bound Ryzen Z2 Extreme, should also benefit from the faster RAM, although it is tipped to miss out on the RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 890M. Currently, there's no telling when the upgrade applies, but a change on AMD's official website suggests it may have already happened.