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.
↫ Gavin Bonshor at AnandTech
Not the review and deep analysis quite yet, but a first thorough look at what Zen 5 is going to bring us, straight from AnandTech.
It’s going to be over 9000. Insert your Vegeta gif of choice.
yeah i am going to stick with my 44 core/88 threads broadwell system with 256gb ram, 48tb ssd and 280tb of hdd. It is not supported by windows 11 of course as it lacks a tpm unit, but it runs windows xp x64 just fine and linux and haiku like a champ.
It used to be hard to get it working with haiku, but jessicah in the dev channel helped me out, and now the fix is in the mainline system, so it just works.
My only problem with haiku on this system is that the 6950XT is not properly supported and defaults to a very low resolution of 1080p and that sound over hdmi is not yet functional so i have to use the internal sound card (which sucks on broadwell, sounds like a** regardless of operating system) Sadly this system does not have a pci slot, so i could not add a good supported sound card like the vortex2 or a emu10k one that also has a sound header for my dreamblaster x2.
Sound over hdmi works rather well with pipewire in linux though, so that is where i spend most of my time.