The new AMD Ryzen AI 400 Series, led by the flagship Zen 5-powered Ryzen AI 9 HX 475, levels up AI performance and brings Ryzen AI to desktops too.

AMD’s Ryzen CPU announcements this year fall firmly into the latter camp—these are all gently tweaked variants of chips that launched in 2024 and 2025.

It's not the first Zen 5 X3D processor that AMD has released that's faster than the 9800X3D, though. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D has two core chiplets (CCDs), one with 3D V-cache, and one without. When it comes to boost clocks, the latter can hit 5.7 GHz, whereas the former topped out at 5.5 GHz in the tests I carried out in my review of the 9950X3D.

At a high level, this feels like AMD borrowing a page directly from Intel's recent playbook. With the gaming performance crown firmly in hand, the company

TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 9000HX "Fire Range" laptop CPUs, featuring Zen 5 cores, have been benchmarked in ASUS's ROG Strix G16. These processors, compatible with existing sockets, will debut at CES 2025... laptop-bound 9950X3D also tested. AMD's new Ryzen 9000HX ...

Today AMD is allowing reviewers to reveal the performance numbers of possibly the hottest and most anticipated PC hardware launch of 2024. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which is set to cost $479, is the first processor in its new Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 range with AMD's ...

Nearly two years ago, AMD announced its first Ryzen Z1 processors. These were essentially the same silicon that AMD was putting in high-end thin-and-light laptops but tuned specifically for handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally X.