AMD has announced an update to its line-up of APUs at CES 2025, which melds high-power CPUs with strong graphics processing. Dubbed the Ryzen AI Max series of APUs, these new chips feature up to 16 CPU and 40 GPU cores at the highest end.
At the highest end, AMD has the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, which clocks in at a maximum boost frequency of 5.1 GHz, has 16 CPU cores, 40 GPU cores, and a neural processing unit offering up to 50 trillion operations per second (TOPS). These APUs will be available starting in Q1 2025.
On the lower end, the Ryzen AI Max PRO 380 will feature 6 CPU cores with 12 threads and 16 GPU cores, with a max boost frequency of 4.9 GHz. Filling out the line-up are the Ryzen AI Max and Max PRO 390, with 12 CPU cores and 32 GPU cores at a max boost of 5 GHz, and the Ryzen AI Max and Max PRO 385, which features 8 CPU cores and 32 GPU cores at a max boost of 5 GHz. The only difference between the 390 and 385 is the amount of cache memory, with the 385 coming in at 40 MB while the 390 features 76 MB.
These new APUs, developed under the codename Strix Halo, run on AMD’s Zen 5 architecture for the CPUs and RDNA 3.5 architecture for the GPUs. The APUs are available in the AI Max form, as well as the AI Max Pro form, the latter of which are designed specifically for business-class workstations.
