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Title: The AMD Zen 5 Microarcitecure: Powering Ryzen AI 300 Series For Mobile
and Ryzen 9000 for Desktop

Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:00:00 EDT
Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21469/amd-deta...

Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU
microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote. AMD announced
not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5
cores. This includes AMD's latest AI PC-focused chip family for the laptop
market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. In comparison, the Ryzen 9000 series caters
to the desktop market, which uses the preexisting AM5 platform.

Built around the new Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture with some fundamental
improvements to both graphics and AI performance, the Ryzen AI 300 series,
code-named Strix Point, is set to deliver improvements in several areas. The
Ryzen AI 300 series looks set to add another footnote in the march towards
the AI PC with its mobile SoC featuring a new XDNA 2 NPU, from which AMD
promises 50 TOPS of performance. AMD has also upgraded the integrated
graphics with the RDNA 3.5, which is designed to replace the last generation
of RDNA 3 mobile graphics, for better performance in games than we've seen
before.

Further to this, during AMD's recent Tech Day last week, AMD disclosed some
of the technical details regarding Zen 5, which also covers a number of key
elements under the hood on both the Ryzen AI 300 and the Ryzen 9000 series.
On paper, the Zen 5 architecture looks quite a big step up compared to Zen 4,
with the key component driving Zen 5 forward through higher instructions per
cycle than its predecessor, which is something AMD has managed to do
consistently from Zen to Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 4, and now Zen 5.

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