Earlier this year, AMD made a big splash with its Ryzen AI 300 series processors for mobile devices, debuting in laptops and now slowly making their way to SFF PCs and handhelds. Powerful as these chips are, more are en route and promise to deliver even more performance thanks to their beefier specs. One APU in particular, ‘Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395’ has recently appeared in a benchmark.
This is one of several ‘Strix Halo‘ processors that we’ll likely see in an official capacity come CES 2025. Until then, we have this Geekbench sneak-peak at the Vulkan performance of its Radeon 8060S. Packing 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units into the die, it’s a bit of a beast. For context, Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375 with its 16 compute unit Radeon 890M is king of the mobile hill for the moment.
In Geekbench 6.3.0, Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 accrues a Vulkan Score of 67,004. That’s a massive 43% higher than the best result of a Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375, coming in at 46,879. The chip is considerably weaker relative to desktop cards like Radeon RX 7600, despite a compute unit advantage, but this is likely due to power constraints.
Much as the Radeon 8060S iGPU is doing much of the heavy lifting, the chip’s 16 CPU cores and clock speeds near 5.4GHz undoubtedly play their part in this performance profile too. All things considered, it seems like Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 could push the boat out on what we expect from mobile chips.
It’s important to note that this is a ‘Pro’ chip that AMD primarily designs for business users. However, I’m confident that we’ll see a vanilla variant emerge from the company’s labs and into 2025 laptops and mini PCs. After all, Strix Halo would make quite the play against Intel’s existing Lunar Lake offerings.
