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
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.
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.
AMD debuts China-only Ryzens at AI summit — Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F ditch the iGPU
Yesterday at the AMD Beijing AI PC Innovation Summit, the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F iGPU-less processors were quietly revealed.
AMD adds support for Zen 5 to Linux GCC compiler
Software makers can now fine tune their programs for AMD's upcoming Ryzen and EPYC processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture.
