AMD expands all of its portfolios with brand new offerings at COMPUTEX 2024

AMD kicked off COMPUTEX 2024 with a host of announcements about upcoming products from both themselves and their partners. Let’s take a brief look at the highlights.

First, in the consumer CPU lineup, AMD introduced the new Ryzen 9000 series processors based on the Zen 5 architecture. The flagship model, the Ryzen 9 9950X, features 16 cores and 32 threads, reaches speeds up to 5.7GHz, includes an 80MB cache, and has a TDP of 170W.

On average, the new CPUs offer a 16% improvement in instructions per clock (IPC). The AM5 platform remains, supporting PCIe 5.0, DDR5 RAM, USB4, and WiFi 7.

AMD also introduced a new tier of premium motherboards, the X870 and X870E series, which promise enhanced DDR5 overclocking via AMD EXPO and additional PCIe lanes, offering up to 24 lanes.

Here’s a quick list of the rest of the initially revealed lineup but the most surprising thing is that AM4 is going to stick around much longer thanks to the release of the new Ryzen 9 5900XT and Ryzen 7 5800XT, providing a strong price-to-performance ratio.

In the laptop segment, the long-awaited AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 300 series has arrived, aimed at the Copilot+ PC era. The standout model, the HX 370, features 12 cores and 24 threads, a boost clock of up to 5.1GHz, a 36MB cache, RDNA 3.5-powered Radeon Graphics, and the new XDNA 2-based Ryzen AI NPU, delivering up to 50 TOPS of AI performance.

XDNA 2 offers significant improvements over the previous generation, including more AI tiles and doubled power efficiency due to architectural advancements.

On the server side, AMD’s 5th Generation EPYC CPUs codenamed Turin, are now available. These powerful chips offer up to 192 cores and 385 threads per chip, outperforming Intel’s current generation by up to 5.4 times. They are compatible with the SP5 socket, making upgrades from Genoa to Turin straightforward for data centers. These CPUs are expected in the second half of 2024.

Finally, AMD announced the Instinct family of GPU accelerators, including the upcoming MI325X, which will replace the popular MI300X. The MI325X features HBM3E VRAM chips, with up to 288GB per GPU and up to 6TBps of bandwidth, making it ideal for memory-intensive tasks like LLM training. But man, AMD also “made fun” of NVIDIA’s Hopper cards for having less VRAM per GPU compared to the MI325X, as expected.

In addition, AMD’s partner stability.ai announced that the new Stable Diffusion 3 will be available for everyone to download and use on desktop systems and the new Copilot+ AI PCs.