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AMD's flagship iGPU, the Radeon 890M, has shown up on Geekbench. It performs on par with a Turing-based Nvidia dGPU in Vulkan. The benchmark essentially confirms AMD's claims of a 32% performance gap between RDNA 3 and RDNA 3.5

AMD has shown off some more benchmarks of its Strix Point laptops processors. Overall, it trounces the Snapdragon X Elite and Intel Core Ultra 9 185H in a variety of workloads including gaming, content creation and productivity.

AMD has shown off some benchmarks of its Zen 5-based Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X. It has also announced its new motherboard chipset names, features and shed light on Zen 5's memory compatibility.

The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is one of the two Zen 5 Strix Point APUs that AMD showed in June at Computex. Since the APU’s announcement, pre-release benchmark results have kept popping up. According to the latest Geekbench 6 performance figures, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 performs better than a Core i9-14900HX and Ryzen 9 7945HX3D in the single-core test.

AMD's upcoming flagship CPU, the Ryzen 9 9950X has shown up on Geekbench alongside the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X. Its multi-core performance is on par with last-gen Zen 4 counterparts, with a 12% improvement in single-core.

Rumored to cost similar to the Ryzen 7 7700X, the 8-core Ryzen 7 9700X based on the Zen 5 architecture has appeared on Geekbench and the results are impressive, at least when it comes to the single-core performance. According to the leaked benchmark results, the Ryzen 7 9700X enjoys a double-digit single-threaded and a moderate multi-threaded gain over its predecessor.

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600‌‌‌X with its 6x Zen 5 cores and a boost clock of 5.4 GHz is the least powerful member of the Zen 5 family. However, even with its 6 cores, the CPU could overtake the Intel Core i9-14900KS in single-core workloads per a valid Geekbench 6 benchmark result.

A new AMD CPU has popped up on Geekbench. It is called the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 160 and it comes with 8 CPU cores in a 3+5 configuration.

The AMD Ryzen AI 300 series laptops are over the horizon. Over the last few weeks, there have been a couple of leaks pointing to different launch dates. Asus has now confirmed that the launch event for its next-gen AMD laptops has been rescheduled to July 17.

A Lenovo laptop powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 has popped up on Geekbench. The system scored 2,544 points in the single-core test and 12,745 in the multi-core test. These benchmark scores are lower than expected, but given that it’s one of the early benchmark results, it could be because of low optimization or power limitation.

A new leak from Weibo says Ryzen AI laptops could be delayed by two weeks. Instead of launching on July 14, they will now hit shelves on July 28.

AMD has promised that the Zen 5 CPU architecture brings a substantial performance uplift over Zen 4, meaning the Strix APUs could be quite powerful. Somewhat in line with Team Red’s claims, a recent performance analysis of a pre-production machine powered by the Ryzen AI 9 365 has shown that the APU does offer notably better performance than the Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs.

AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X could be allowed to operate at a higher wattage than initially announced. Wccftech's sources indicate the chip's TDP could be increased to 120 Watts from 65 Watts.

AMD's 10-core Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU has just made its Geekbench debut. It performs on par with its 12-core sibling (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370). However, there is a lot of scope for improvement because the chip was not operating at its peak.

A user on AnandTech forums recently posted AIDA64 test results of a Ryzen 9 9950X engineering sample. If the posted numbers are anything to go by, the 9950X will be an absolute beast of a CPU, having almost doubled the 7950X's performance in certain tests. However, it should be noted that synthetic benchmarks are not necessarily indicative of real-world performance, and the tests were themselves pretty workload specific.

A new leak from Moore's Law is Dead says AMD Strix Point laptops will be abundant at launch. They're expected to hit shelves in mid-July and most of the Ryzen AI-powered laptops will be from Asus.

AMD introduced the Ryzen AI 300 series earlier this month at Computex 2024. The keynote didn't go much into the next-gen processors' availability and pricing details. But Best Buy now has listed laptops with the new CPUs, and these listings suggest the new CPU series will launch on July 15, with the cheapest currently listed laptop being $1,399.99.

GPD has announced a major change for the Duo, its first dual-display laptop. Previously equipped with the Ryzen 7 8840U like the Win Mini 2024, the GPD Duo will actually be available with AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU and its new Radeon 890M iGPU.

GPD has posted some benchmarks of AMD's upcoming Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU. It manages to trade blows with high-end desktop chips in Cinenbench 2024's single-core benchmark. Similarly, its Radeon 890M iGPU outperforms Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2050 in 3DMark Time Spy.

Golden Pig Upgrade shared the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark results of the Radeon 890M iGPU inside Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 on Bilibili. The integrated graphics card with the 16 compute units (CUs) reportedly scores over 3600 on the benchmark, which puts it very close to the Nvidia RTX 2050 GPU.

A new leak says a price cut is on the card for AMD's newest Ryzen 9000 desktop processors. The top-spec SKUs could be cheaper by $50-100 compared to their last-gen equivalents. Plus, AMD could double the amount of 3D V-cache on the Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

According to AMD’s announcement at Computex 2024, the upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X is faster than the Core i9-14900K in productivity and gaming tasks. However, fans who were waiting for Zen 5 to outdo the Zen 4 X3D chips in gaming are in for disappointment as the Ryzen 9 9950X isn’t expected to beat the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X has been benchmarked in AIDA64, where it performs ~80% faster than its predecessor. The silicon was also spotted running at 5.7 GHz, which is well over its advertised boost clock of 5.5 GHz.

The AMD Strix Point Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has surfaced on Geekbench courtesy of recently unveiled Asus TUF Gaming A14 and ProArt P16 laptops and first performance numbers seem quite impressive and in line with what we've seen in Zen 4 Dragon Range HX APUs. We also get to see the new RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 890M posting OpenCL numbers exceeding those of a GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q.

A new report says AMD's Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs could arrive later this year. AMD plans to announce them in September, around when Intel's Arrow Lake chips are slated to debut.

AMD has introduced new Strix Point processors that are weirdly in the Ryzen AI 300 series, skipping 100 and 200. Previous rumors suggested that the APUs would launch as Ryzen AI 100 series instead. Now, a prototype laptop from Computex has confirmed that the company has made a last-minute name change.

At Computex 2024, Acer briefly showed off two new additions to the Swift 14 Copilot+ family powered by Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Ryzen AI 300 SoCs. The chassis is identical to what we've seen previously with the Snapdragon X Elite variant, but Acer is keeping mum on specifications and pricing for now.

Designed around the X870E chip architecture from AMD to fully support the 7000, 8000, and 9000 Series AM5 processors, Biostar's X870E Valkyrie is a high-end motherboard able to accommodate up to 192 GB of DDR5 memory, which also provides a rich set of storage and expansion options alongside a 22-phase Dr.MOS power design.

Asus is introducing a convertible ProArt at Computex 2024, the ProArt PX13. The new ProArt PX13 is a Copilot+ PC with a Pantone-validated 3K OLED panel and is powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point APUs and dGPU options up to the RTX 4070.

The Asus ZenBook S16 has been officially announced with AMD's new Ryzen AI processors, a 3K OLED screen, two USB 4.0 ports and a 76 Wh battery.

Asus has offered a new AMD-powered variant for its ROG Zephyrus G16 gaming laptop. It can now be configured with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 370 HX processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card.

The new ASUS TUF Gaming A14 and A16 gaming laptops have gone official at Computex 2024. Both the 14-inch and the 16-inch machines bring AMD’s next-gen Ryzen AI processors, new designs, better cooling, and more upgradability options. On the graphics side, the TUF 14 and TUF 16 rock NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 GPUs.

Asus is launching an AMD Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point Zen 5 powered ProArt P16 at Computex 2024. The new ProArt P16 is a Copilot+ PC focused on AI workflows with 50 TOPS performance from the AMD Ryzen AI 300 NPU alone while continuing to offer ProArt goodies such as the 4K OLED touchscreen and an Asus DialPad built into the touchpad.

ASUS has now updated the 2024 Vivobook S 14 (M5406), S 15 (M5506), and S 16 (M5606) laptops with the latest AMD Ryzen AI processors. Previously, the laptops topped out at the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Aside from this spec bump, everything else seemingly remains the same with OLED displays, LPDDR5X-memory, and more.

AMD has unveiled its next generation of laptop processors, complete with a new naming scheme. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 390 and Ryzen AI 9 365 come with AMD's new Zen 5 CPU cores and a Radeon 800M series iGPU based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture.

AMD has announced its new Zen 5-based desktop CPUs along with a new X870E/X870 motherboards. The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X is up to 56% faster than the Core i9-14900K and offers up to a 35% IPC uplift over Zen 4.

Specifications as well as single-thread performance numbers for a high-performance AMD Granite Ridge Zen 5 processor appear to have been uncovered by an X user. The chip runs at up to 5.8 GHz making it easy to compare its performance to the 5.7 GHz, Zen 4-powered Ryzen 9 7950X and to calculate the performance per clock cycle improvement that is seemingly on the cards.

AOOSTAR, known for its mini PCs, has hinted at the potential launch timeline of the upcoming AMD Strix Point mobile processors. As the company has said in its Discord channel, the next-gen Ryzen processors are expected to launch in August. These CPUs are expected to feature new Zen 5 architecture.

AMD has a last-minute rename planned for its Strix Point laptop processors. The flagship-out SKU could be called the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Its non-HX counterpart might go by Ryzen AI 9 365.

An early Vivobook S16 listing on Asus' website confirms AMD plans to change its CPUs naming schemes soon. The next-gen Zen 5-based CPU powering the laptop is called the Ryzen AI 9 HX 170.

AMD Strix Halo APUs could be available in a range of configurations. From a Strix Halo SKU that rivals the RTX 4070 laptop down to a low-end product with RTX 3050 levels of performance, AMD apparently presented OEMs with four options with up to 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 CUs.

After revealing surprisingly strong data center sales in the first quarter, AMD's CEO, Lisa Su, also mentioned that the first Epyc Turin and Ryzen Strix samples are already reaching the company's partners. These Zen 5-based processors are expected to launch in the second half of 2024.

Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5-based AMD Strix and Strix Halo APUs are on their way with the promise of massive performance gains. Now, a leaked official AMD document has apparently detailed specifications of Strix Point and Strix Halo products with the latter enjoying more than 3 times the Compute Units of the Radeon 780M.

The upcoming AMD Strix Point APUs are shaping up to be nice upgrades over the current crop of Hawk Point and Phoenix APUs with their Zen 5 CPU and RDNA 3.5 iGPU. The top-end 12-core part has just made a pit stop at Geekbench, resulting in rather high single-core and multi-core scores for an engineering sample.

AMD is reportedly releasing the Ryzen 9000 CPUs based on the Zen 5 architecture between April and June with potentially up to a 40% IPC uplift over Zen 4. According to the latest leak out of @All_The_Watts on Twitter, Zen 5 delivers, among other things, a 38% IPC improvement in Metro Exodus, meaning the Ryzen 9000 chips could be gaming beasts.

AMD has revealed two new AM5 CPUs with interesting names at a recent event in China. The Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F appear to be desktop Hawk Point chips with their iGPUs disabled.

Other highlights for this configuration include a 5 MP webcam with IR sensor, fingerprint reader integrated in the power button, 2x USB4 ports and a total weight of only 2.51 lbs.

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The new Zen 5 desktop processors will also bring updated chipsets, but motherboards might actually come later. X3D models could launch at the same time, but some sources believe they could be delayed to launch in response to Intel's Arrow Lake-S in Q4.

The two upcoming mobile lineups with Zen 5 cores appearing in the ROCm code also means that AMD will soon enable compute processing support for its iGPU models. However, this might only apply to RDNA 3.5 models and up.