New AMD Strix Halo: Ryzen AI Max+ 392 stars in early benchmark after CES 2026 debut

The Ryzen AI Max+ 392 has been around for a few months now, at least unofficially. Showcased by Sixunited in November, AMD officially presented the Strix Halo APU last week during CES 2026 in Las Vegas. Now, Geekbench has offered a few insights into how the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 shapes up against existing Strix Halo APUs.

Unsurprisingly, the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 more or less matches the Ryzen AI Max 390 and Ryzen AI Max+ 395 in single-core performance with a score of 2,917. In other words, the 100 MHz boost clock deficit to the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 makes no difference in this regard. Conversely, the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 extracts about 3% more performance from its 12 Zen 5 cores than the Ryzen AI Max 390 and over 12% more than the Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 that we tested in the HP ZBook Ultra G1a.

Potentially, these differences could be attributed to device variances. Setting that aside, the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 falls around 15% short of the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 powering the ROG Flow Z13. As it stands, only the TUF Gaming A14 has been confirmed to launch globally with the Ryzen AI Max+ 392. However, Sixunited suggested in November that it plans to use the same APU inside the AXP77 as an alternative to the Asus ROG Flow Z13 (curr. $2,169 on Amazon). Launch details for both devices remain unknown for now, though.