CES 2025 is shaping up to be a proper battleground for high-performance laptop chips, with both AMD and Intel poised to launch new high-end mobile silicon muscle. Intel is expected to announce its Arrow Lake-H/X lineup, while AMD intends to lift the curtains off its widely anticipated Strix Halo products. Interestingly, AMD is also rumored to launch a new 8-core APU dubbed Krackan Point, which has now surfaced on Geekbench.
The 8-core APU, likely to be branded as the Ryzen AI 350, consists of four Zen 5 and four Zen 5c cores and a boost clock of 5.05 GHz, as indicated by a recent Geekbench listing spotted by our mates over at Videocardz. The APU was tested in an Acer Swift laptop and scored single- and multi-core scores of 2,677 and 11,742 respectively. This result puts the APU well ahead of the Ryzen 7 8845HS and the Core Ultra 7 258V 'Lunar Lake' chips. Apple's base M4-powered MacBook Pro, however, remains far ahead.
Of course, details regarding the upcoming Krackan Point APU at this point remain murky. We do believe that the APU will most likely boast Strix Point's XDNA 2 NPU and a Radeon 860M iGPU. The Strix Halo products, on the other hand, will likely carry the Ryzen AI Max branding, and feature an absolute powerhouse of an iGPU that trades blows with the RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. Intel's Arrow Lake-HX lineup will also join the fray, but the ultimate victor in this upcoming x86 duel remains anyone's guess.
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