From AMD they are preparing to launch one of the most important ranges of processors they have, the Ryzen AI 300 MAXa series of chips that will arrive for devices that require lower power consumption than that offered by their normal CPUs, that is, for portable systems. These new components aim to offer AMD devices that have the best performance for AI applications, something that we will learn about during their presentation at CES 2025, although there are companies that are already preparing for their release by updating their systems, as is the case from Asus.
The processors Ryzen AI 300 MAX They are the direct competition of the Core Ultra that Intel offers for laptops, and both companies have seen in the artificial intelligence sector a market good enough to dedicate specific components for these technologies, although they do not fall short in other aspects. . In this case, the two companies want to have the leadership in portable devices, something that we will be able to verify when the models of each of the two brands are presented, and that is that there is less and less left to know what they will be like and what new features they will have (although We already know most of the specifications from the leaks).
Asus begins to prepare its systems for the new Ryzen AI 300 MAX
After an extremely good reception of its new processors for desktop computers, and the expectation that the company’s X3D models are generating, AMD plans to present in a few months the CPUs that they have created specifically for laptop systems. These are the Ryzen AI 300 MAX, also known as Strix Halo, which will arrive with a considerable performance increase compared to the previous versions that we could find of similar processors from the brand, this being one of the key aspects that they want to highlight.
Although as we well know the CES begins in January, some companies are already making preparations for their systems to support this type of chips, and a hardware-related data leaker known as HXL has found details about an update to the X670E chipset of Asus related to the Strix Halo. In the document we can see a series of drivers that refer to a large number of technologies and products. amdamong which the support that is added to the drivers of the Ryzen AI 300 MAX.
As we well know, these processors are the ones that are intended to offer the highest performance that we can find in portable systems, whether at the computer or console level, mainly due to the fact that they incorporate an iGPU that would be more powerful than some of the dedicated graphics cards on the market. One of the main reasons why the graphics are so powerful has to do with the requirements of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence PCs, combining an NPU with the XDNA2 architecture along with a 40 CU iGPU (RDNA 3.5) at 3 GHz, something that would completely change the market for portable gaming devices.
