AMD's line of Ryzen 8000 processors are the world’s first desktop CPUs with an integrated high-performance Neural Processing Unit (NPU) engine to boost performance in AI workloads, beating Intel to the punch again — AMD was also the first x86 chipmaker to bring an NPU to laptops, helping advance and define the new concept of AI PCs.
AMD pairs this ‘XDNA’ AI accelerator with the powerful Zen 4 CPU microarchitecture and the RDNA 3 graphics engine to forge the flagship models, while two lower-tier models round out the stack, combining to create compelling lower-cost solutions for entry-level gaming and small form factor builds with Zen 4c cores. The new chips came to market on January 31.
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Latest about Ryzen 8000
MSI overclocker confirms CUDIMMs work with AMD Ryzen 8000 and 9000 processors
AMD's latest Ryzen processors expected to support CUDIMMs, just like Intel's Arrow Lake-S.
AMD's Ryzen 8000G lineup gets a price drop
Prices have dropped on AMD's Ryzen 8000G series of desktop APUs with integrated graphics, indicating a planned price change ahead of Ryzen 9000's launch on desktops in July.
Geekom introduces AX8 Mini PC with 13th Gen Intel and AMD Ryzen 8000 CPU support
The blue Geekom AX8 Mini PC launches with Intel and AMD support, up to 2TB NVMe 4.0 storage and 32 GB RAM in all configurations.
AMD launches Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F processors
AMD has introduced the Ryzen 8000 F-series processors for the AM5 platform. The new Ryzen chips lack integrated graphics, so a discrete graphics card is required.
AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors — Zen 4 and AI engines come to the commercial market
AMD is the first with a Pro desktop PC chip with an NPU for AI workloads.
AMD's Zen 5 Ryzen 9000-series looms — latest chipset drivers add support
Release notes for AMD's chipset driver V6.03.19.217 released by Asus contain mentions of Ryzen 9000 platform management framework.
AMD may have a new platform for upcoming Ryzen CPUs
Some of AMD's forthcoming Zen 5 or even Zen 6 processors may reside on the AM5+ socket.
AMD claims LLMs run up to 79% faster on Ryzen 8040 CPUs compared to Intel’s newest Core Ultra chips
AMD has published performance slides of its Ryzen 7 7840U dominating Intel’s latest Core Ultra 7 155H processor in a plethora of large language model benchmarks.
