At the CES 2025 pre-show event, AMD unveiled the Ryzen AI Max series processors, which correspond to higher AI computing power performance and are currently positioned as the highest-end specification products in the Ryzen AI 300 series processors.
Like the Ryzen AI 300 series processors, the Ryzen AI Max series also uses the Zen 5 architecture CPU design and is equipped with the RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture. It is also equipped with the XDNA 50 architecture NPU with an artificial intelligence computing power of up to 2 TOPS. The integrated design has increased the memory transmission bandwidth to 256GB per second, which also improves the execution efficiency of the graphics core.
In the Ryzen AI Max series, AMD has launched the top-end Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Ryzen AI Max 390, and Ryzen AI Max 385, as well as additional models with the Pro name. In addition, the standalone Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 is available. Core counts range from 6 to 16, display core counts range from 16 to 40, operating clock speeds range from 4.9GHz to 5.1GHz, and cache memory designs range from 22MB to 80MB. The built-in NPU can achieve an AI computing power of up to 50 TOPS, and the thermal design function can be adjusted between 45W and 120W.
Compared to Intel's Core Ultra 9 288V processor, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 boasts an average rendering performance increase of 2.6 times, or over 340%, and a 1.4 times, or over 228%, increase in display performance. Furthermore, compared to Apple's M4 Pro 12-core and M4 Pro 14-core versions, it also boasts superior performance in 3D rendering.
At the same time, AMD emphasized that the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 will be able to execute large natural language models with more than 700 billion parameters on the application device side. Compared with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 24GB memory version, the artificial intelligence computing performance can be improved by up to 2.2 times, while the thermal design power consumption is reduced by about 87%.
The first wave of models using the Ryzen AI Max series processors are expected to be launched in the first and second quarters of this year, and will be launched by brands such as HP and ASUS. ASUS has confirmed that it will use this processor design in the new ROG Flow Z13, while HP will build enterprise models with Ryzen AI Max Pro specification processors.
