AMD Teases Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU 1080p Gaming Performance, Claims 68% Faster than RTX 4070M

[igormp]

Yeah, that's a lame attempt to try and sell it, but people buying it for that purpose, have the money, but are no technical idiots. They need more than that.

Fwiw, no hardware company goes around shouting LLM perf numbers, specially at an even like CES that's mostly targeted to end consumers.

I doubt that many people will be buying Strix Halo $2000+ laptops/mini-PCs to run games at 1080P. Maxxed out Strix Halo 395 PCs basically a mini-workstation level configuration (cores, max ram, ram bandwidth, speed), and they are missing the opportunity in marketing it as such. AI crazed people have money burning in their hands waiting for somebody to sell them more unified memory for bigger models, gamers - not so much.

Agreed. HP and others are already in the works with such mini-workstations, and I'm pretty sure they'll market those products in a way you'd expect: big unified memory for LLMs.

 

[mkppo]

Why laptop? It'd do great in any SFF.

I SO want to tinker with this in a desktop form factor

It will also be slower but you know, zombie buyers believe the marketing

I mean there is a reason they chose a tablet to compare it against. If im not mistaken a dekstop 4070 is ~50% faster than a mobile 4070. AMD claims their APU is 68% faster than the 4070m, which makes it faster than a desktop 4070. Aight

Desktop 4070 is in a different bracket altogether and is much faster. AMD were comparing it to mobile 4070, I don't think anyone was comparing it to the desktop version (unless I missed it and someone claimed it here)

 

[Sound_Card]

Strix Halo is a mobile SoC, why are people trying to compare it to the desktop 4070? Is this confusion coming from the fact that Nvidia name the mobile and desktop 4070 the same? I give Nvidia credit, their confusing marketing at least works for their benefit.