AMD unleashes Ryzen AI 400 series
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AMD ticks up the speed on its buzziest gaming CPU
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AMD announced the latest version of its AI-powered PC chips designed for a variety of tasks from gaming to content creation and multitasking.
AMD unveiled Ryzen AI 400 and Embedded processors at CES 2026, touting up to 60 TOPS NPUs and new chips for laptops, desktops, and edge devices.
In addition to updated Ryzen AI 300 series processors and the new Ryzen AI 400 series unveiled at CES 2026, the company brings a new desktop chip for gamers.
The new AMD Ryzen AI 400 Series, led by the flagship Zen 5-powered Ryzen AI 9 HX 475, levels up AI performance and brings Ryzen AI to desktops too.
AMD’s Ryzen CPU announcements this year fall firmly into the latter camp—these are all gently tweaked variants of chips that launched in 2024 and 2025.
AMD also compares the Ryzen AI Max+ directly against the Apple MacBook Pro M5 and finds it to offer superior performance in local AI, content creation, multitasking, and gaming. These results are plausible considering our own testing, although we don't have a MacBook Pro M5 on hand to compare against just yet.
AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su opened her keynote with a vision for “AI for everyone,” at CES 2026, underscoring how AI will revolutionise personal computing.AMD Ryzen AI 400 seriesAs part of this, the company launched its Ryzen AI