Asus has inadvertently leaked the identify of a model new AMD CPU, which exhibits the processor maker taking a really totally different strategy to the names of its chips. If the itemizing is correct, it seems to be as if there’s a brand new vary of AMD Ryzen AI CPUs on the best way shortly, with AMD seemingly capitalizing on its neural processing {hardware} in its forthcoming battle in opposition to Intel.
This transfer would comply with the current Intel model change, the place it eliminated the ‘i’ from its current Meteor Lake laptop computer CPU branding, in favor of its new Core and Core Extremely names. It seems to be as if the forthcoming battle between Intel and AMD to make the most effective CPU is not going to solely contain altering processor architectures but in addition altering the branding.
The brand new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 CPU was noticed within the specs for a brand new Asus Vivobook S 16 OLED laptop computer vary, discovered utilizing the Asus laptop computer comparability software on the corporate’s web site, and revealed on X (previously Twitter) by Korean tech fanatic harukaze5719. The itemizing has since been eliminated, but it surely’s been preserved in a screenshot (proven beneath), which reveals among the specs of the brand new CPU, in addition to the brand new identify.
Like Intel’s new Core Extremely branding, the mannequin quantity that follows the AMD Ryzen AI identify can be in a distinct format from beforehand. On this case, the ‘9’ seems to be as if it denotes a CPU on the high quality, and there’s additionally an ‘HX’ within the identify, a pair of letters that Intel makes use of on its top-end laptop computer CPUs as nicely.
In the meantime, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 specs listing has 12 cores (24 threads), 36MB of cache, and a peak clock pace of 5.1GHz, in accordance with the Asus itemizing. The CPU can be listed as having AMD Radeon graphics, and the ‘AMD Ryzen AI’ efficiency is rated at as much as 77 TOPS (trillions of operations per second – a primary measure of AI processing energy).
In the meantime, a second screenshot (above) exhibits that the particular AI efficiency of the devoted AMD XDNA {hardware} (the neural processing unit, or NPU) is 45 TOPS. That’s the identical quantity touted by Intel for its forthcoming Lunar Lake structure, and it ought to imply that AMD’s new Ryzen AI CPUs will be capable to run the brand new Home windows AI Explorer options coming to Home windows 11.
After all, none of this has been formally confirmed by AMD but, but when that is true it seems to be as if AMD goes massive on AI tech with its future laptop computer CPUs, to the purpose the place it’s even within the model identify. This new CPU identify has already drawn a good bit of criticism amongst tech leakers on-line, however I personally suppose AMD Ryzen AI is a a lot stronger model than Intel Core Extremely – it immediately tells you one thing concerning the CPU with out sounding hyperbolic.
We’ll have to attend and see whether or not this new naming scheme additionally will get transferred to the desktop when AMD launches its new Zen 5 CPUs, but it surely seems to be as if each Intel and AMD are eager to go away their earlier naming schemes behind within the laptop computer market.
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