From PC World: AMD’s Ryzen AI Pro 400 chip will be offered as a desktop processor, giving users another option for a low-power, efficient desktop or mini PC. But AMD is marketing both its desktop and mobile Ryzen AI 400s under its Pro brand for businesses, apparently conceding that consumers will pass them by.
Well, maybe that’s not entirely true. There’s nothing stopping a consumer buying one of the estimated 200 different PCs with a Ryzen AI Pro 400 (Gorgon Point) chip inside, including either a desktop, laptop, or even a workstation. They’ll ship from the usual suspects, including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
Still, AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 performance was outstanding, and the company marketed them at both consumers and corporations alike. Now, the Ryzen AI Pro 400 chips are being designed in with AMD’s security initiatives for enterprises, alongside AMD’s existing Radeon AI Pro lineup of GPUs. Well, AIPUs, anyway: Absolutely nothing of AMD’s marketing mentions games, and instead positions the chips as powerful solutions for local LLMs. To reiterate the obvious: AMD is leaning hard into AI, and the corporate budgets willing to pay for it.
The desktop chips are new, though: Socketed desktop processors that AMD tipped off when it announced the Ryzen AI 400 family. There are three, but in two flavors: The “G” series denotes a 65W chip, and the “GE” suffix indicates a 35W chip. All of the chips include an NPU with 50 TOPS, qualifying them for Copilot+ status on desktop PCs. They’ll slot in to the AMD AM5 platform, supporting DDR5 memory modules of up to 8,533 megatransfers/s.
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