At today's COMPUTEX 2024 event, AMD unveiled the new Zen 5 series architecture and announced consumer processors with new architectures, including the Ryzen 9000 series for desktop and the Ryzen AI 300 series processors for mobile.
Among them, the Ryzen AI 300 series is codenamed "Strix Point", and the first two products are available: Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365. It adopts a hybrid architecture design, and the CPU part includes the cores of Zen 5 and Zen 5c architecture, up to a combination of Zen 5 x4 + Zen 5c x8, with a total of 12 cores and 24 threads, and a total of 36MB of L2+L3 cache; The GPU part is RDNA 3.5 architecture with up to 16 CUs. There's also the new XDNA 2 Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which delivers 50 TOPS performance, easily exceeding Microsoft Windows' 40 TOPS requirement for next-generation AI PCs, and can run AI workloads like Copilot natively.
This is the debut of the density-optimized "small core" on the Ryzen 9 processor, which was previously only seen on the low-to-mid-range Ryzen 5/3 processors. Compared to the standard Zen 5 core, the Zen 5c core takes up less chip area and provides enough performance for less demanding tasks, thus saving power and providing a higher energy consumption ratio than before, similar to Intel's E-Core positioning. Unlike Intel's "big and small cores", which have completely different architecture and feature support, the Zen 5c architecture uses the same ISA as the Zen 5 architecture, with the former being a low-power lite version of the latter with the same IPC. However, due to the lower frequency of the Zen 5c cores, the peak performance provided is lower than that of the standard Zen 5 cores.
This time, AMD focused on AI as the focus of its product release, but it only brought two products, and the lineup was not complete. Also noteworthy is the new naming scheme, which highlights the "AI" attribute.