AMD announces new Ryzen AI Pro 300 series processors, bringing Copilot+ PCs to enterprise users for the first time
AMD Ryzen AI Pro 300 chips bring Copilot+ AI PCs to enterprise users
· TechRadarNews By John Loeffler published 10 October 2024
AMD has announced the AMD Ryzen AI Pro 300, an enterprise-focused lineup that will bring more powerful AI chips to businesses and organizations to improve collaboration, security, and more.
The new lineup will feature three chips for Copilot+ PCs, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 370, and the AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360.
These new chips are a significant step up from the previous Pro generation, the AMD Ryzen Pro 8040 series, and are the first processor series explicitly designed for enterprise users to be Copilot+ compliant.
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| Header Cell - Column 0 | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375 | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 370 | AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores | 12 cores / 24 threads | 12 cores / 24 threads | 8 cores / 16 threads |
| Max Boost Frequency | 5.1 GHz | 5.1 GHz | 5.0 GHz |
| Cache | 36MB | 36MB | 24MB |
| Graphics | AMD Radeon 890M | AMD Radeon 890M | AMD Radeon 880M |
| NPU | 55 TOPS | 50 TOPS | 50 TOPS |
In addition to a much more powerful NPU (up to 55 TOPS for the Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375), AMD says the underlying Zen 5 cores in the CPU offer substantially more multithreaded performance compared to Intel’s competing Core Ultra 7 vPro chips, based on the Intel Meteor Lake architecture.
Intel Lunar Lake processors launched last month, and at the moment there are no vPro versions of these chips, so a more direct comparison isn’t possible yet, but these new Lunar Lake vPro chips are expected to launch before too long.
In addition to the claims of improved performance, AMD says laptops running its new Ryzen AI Pro 300 series chips will get up to 23 hours of battery life, a substantial increase over previous generations of chips, and that the NPU in these new Ryzen AI Pro 300 chips will empower new multi-layer security features for the kind of protection that enterprise devices need.
Can AMD make headway in Intel’s backyard?
While Intel has undoubtedly been on the ropes lately, one area where it retains an absolutely dominant position is with its laptop chips. While the numbers fluctuate every quarter, Intel’s laptop market share currently sits at just below 72%, so it is a crucial revenue source for Team Blue when it is facing strong headwinds elsewhere.
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