Monday, January 27th 2025
AMD Teases Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU 1080p Gaming Performance, Claims 68% Faster than RTX 4070M
AMD has just published its "How to Sell" Ryzen AI MAX series guide—several news outlets have pored over the "claimed" gaming performance charts contained within this two-page document. Team Red appears to be in a boastful mood—their 1080p benchmark results reveal compelling numbers, as produced by their flagship Zen 5 "Strix Halo" processor (baseline 55 W TDP). According to Team Red's marketing guidelines, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU: "competes with a GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile GPU at similar TDP and form factor." The first-party produced comparison points to their Radeon 8060S integrated graphics solution being up to 68% faster—in modern gaming environments at 1080p settings—than the competing Team Green dedicated laptop-oriented GPU, limited to 65 W TGP due to form factor restrictions. Overall, the AMD test unit does better by 23.2% on average (referring to Wccftech's calculations).
According to the document, AMD's reference system was lined up against an ASUS ROG Flow Z13 (2023) gaming laptop specced with an Intel Core i9-13900H processor, and a GeForce RTX 4070 mobile graphics card. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395's "massive iGPU" can unleash the full force of forty RDNA 3.5 compute units, paired with up to 96 GB of unified on-board memory (from a total pool of 128 GB). Non-gaming benchmarks place the flagship Team Red processor above Intel Core Ultra 9 288V and Apple M4 Pro (12-core) CPUs—as always, it is best to wait for verification from independent evaluators. Saying that, the "Strix Halo" APU family has generated a lot of excitement—even going back to early leaks—and the latest marketed performance could drum up further interest.
Sources:
AMD Subreddit, uzzi38 Tweet, Wccftech, Tom's Hardware
According to the document, AMD's reference system was lined up against an ASUS ROG Flow Z13 (2023) gaming laptop specced with an Intel Core i9-13900H processor, and a GeForce RTX 4070 mobile graphics card. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395's "massive iGPU" can unleash the full force of forty RDNA 3.5 compute units, paired with up to 96 GB of unified on-board memory (from a total pool of 128 GB). Non-gaming benchmarks place the flagship Team Red processor above Intel Core Ultra 9 288V and Apple M4 Pro (12-core) CPUs—as always, it is best to wait for verification from independent evaluators. Saying that, the "Strix Halo" APU family has generated a lot of excitement—even going back to early leaks—and the latest marketed performance could drum up further interest.
52 Comments on AMD Teases Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU 1080p Gaming Performance, Claims 68% Faster than RTX 4070M
At these wattages a boosting 4060 Ti would perform similarly.
It's also the peak gain from a specific game, Borderlands 3, well known for favoring AMD GPUs, the performance gains ranged from +1% to this value.
Tell me how does it do on DeepSeek R1 70b (quantized) with 128GB max speed RAM and maximum amount allotted to the GPU and optimized settings for the GPU/CPU cores.
And how does it perform on Janus-Pro-7B.
AMD has the ONLY foreseeable viable one box option to nVidia DIGITS in their hands (at possibly 60% of the price) and they are missing the AI-make-sales-quick gravy train.
Get with the program AMD marketing droids!
Sell" Lie Ryzen AI MAX series guide120W APU vs a tablet. Does AMD think that little about their customers?
Given the above, don't you think this is a valid comparison?
Once this new Z13 comes out, I'm all in for it.
Of course I would love to be wrong.
The Z13-ACRNM took me a couple of timed drops before I could get one in 2023 and even then it released at US $2,500. Definitely not worth it for the performance alone. My X13 (also 2023, RTX 4070M, 60W TGP though) now cost the same but at least has way better battery life due to the 7940HS and being able to manually disable (park, perhaps?) cores in Armory Crate.