AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 9000 release dates and prices seemingly leak — retailers peg July 15 and 31 for laptops and desktop CPUs

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Both AMD chips slated for launch in the second half of July.

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Laptops featuring AMD's Ryzen AI 300 Series "Strix Point" CPUs will launch on July 15, two weeks ahead of a July 31 launch date for the Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" CPUs. That's according to leaks and information from several sources indicate, including laptop listings from Best Buy found by Twitter by user @9550pro, and WCCFTech found Ryzen 9000 series pricing Canada Computers and a Philipine site; B&H Photo also has a Ryzen 9 9950X listing "coming soon."

In addition to these retail listings, AMD updated its 3D V-Cache optimizer driver last week. That's linked to Ryzen 9000X3D parts, which seems set to further iterate on past X3D CPUs and their boosted gaming performance, but we don't expect the X3D variants to arrive until at least a few months after the initial Zen 5 parts. July 31 will seemingly be the launch date for the Ryzen 9000 non-X3D processors.

Pricing details stem from non-U.S. listings, so we have to convert those to USD to get estimated MSRPs. The least expensive parts appear to start at around $300 USD for the Ryzen 5 9600X, and range up to $600 USD for the Ryzen 9 9950X. There's probably about $20 leeway, up or down, for the U.S. retail launch. Note that the numbers come from Canada Computers and Bermor Techzone in the Philipines, while B&H doesn't yet show a price.

The Ryzen AI 300 CPUs will of course only be sold in laptops, but the Asus Zenbook S 16 listing on Best Buy shows a Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU with a 3K OLED touchscreen for $1,399 USD. That also includes 24GB of memory and a 1TB SSD.

We've seen benchmarks from GPD for its own GPD Duo Dual OLED laptop with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, likely a slightly faster option than the 365. The new mobile chips could outpace the desktop Ryzen 9 5950X in CPU performance, with integrated graphics performance slotting between the mobile Nvidia RTX 2050 and RTX 3050 GPUs. Those are only estimates based on 3DMark, however, where the score of 4,221 for the Radeon 890M iGPU reported by GPD indicates a 33% lift in performance over the previous generation Radeon 780M iGPU.

Overall, AMD's upcoming refresh cycle looks pretty enticing, for desktop and laptop users alike. We'll have to see how the laptops stack up against the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite solutions when we have hardware in hand, but the rumored performance gains look good while remaining price-competitive with previous solutions.

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Christopher Harper
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Christopher Harper has been a successful freelance tech writer specializing in PC hardware and gaming since 2015, and ghostwrote for various B2B clients in High School before that. Outside of work, Christopher is best known to friends and rivals as an active competitive player in various eSports (particularly fighting games and arena shooters) and a purveyor of music ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Killer Mike to the Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack.

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  • NeoMorpheus
    Overall, AMD's upcoming refresh cycle looks pretty enticing, for desktop and laptop users alike.




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  • blitz120
    Does the author literally mean the 300 series will only be sold in laptops? What about mini-pcs?
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  • blitz120 said:
    Does the author literally mean the 300 series will only be sold in laptops? What about mini-pcs?

    No not just in Laptops, but expect these even in OEM mini-PCs as well. Later some handheld devices might also sport these AI chips, more specifically the Ryzen AI 9 365(a cut-down variant), but this is still up for a final decision by AMD based on some rumors.
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  • KnightShadey
    blitz120 said:
    Does the author literally mean the 300 series will only be sold in laptops? What about mini-pcs?
    Laptops is their first priority where their top tier partner OEMs will get first crack they might also target business AiOs with the first batch depending on interest & margins, then once the chip is available to all vendors as just another SKU (likely around the same time Strix Halo is announced) it'll end up wherever OEMs want that combo of power & efficiency including miniPCs, etc.

    I'd love to see it in a small dedicated (and software supported) AV/game box similar to the aging Shield, something like a "Steam Deck Home Edition" (saving on LCD & dock) which could compete with current consoles at a lower price and smaller size & power footprints.

    Problem is the segment of the market that is savvy enough to know the benefit, but not already using some PC (mini or not) attached to their TV, and not want more upgradability than a dedicated unit.
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