AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 shows up on PassMark with decent single threaded performance

Yesterday, the Krackan Point-based Ryzen AI 7 350 made a splash on Geekbench by offering a respectable generation-over-generation performance uplift over its Hawk Point-based counterpart. However, its PassMark (H/T @Olrak29_ on X) showing is less than stellar, at least on the multicore front. But, this isn't very surprising because it features a mix of 4x Zen 5 and 4x Zen 5c cores.

The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 scores 3,919 and 21,127 points in PassMark's single and multithreaded rating, respectively. The former sits in line with its Zen 5-based cousin: Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (3,977). The CPU has a rated TDP of 45 Watts and comes with a Radeon 860M iGPU.

Its last-gen equivalent, the Ryzen 7 8845HS, scored 3,782 and 28,806 points in the same benchmark. This is to be expected because the Hawk Point part comes with eight full Zen 4 cores, resulting in a better multithread performance. The Ryzen AI 7 350's single thread performance will lead because of the same reason.

Intel's Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra 7 258V has a slight lead in single thread performance with a score of 4,109. Its multithread performance is surprisingly close at 20,018 despite the lack of hyperthreading. The real interloper here is Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100, which somehow inches ahead in multithreaded performance (23,400). But Krackan Point takes back the lead in single thread performance, with the Qualcomm part scoring 3,318.

Of course, the above listing isn't fully indicative of the Ryzen AI 7 350's actual performance. We'll know that once it debuts at CES 2025 alongside Strix Halo and even a Hawk Point refresh.