AMD Launches Ryzen 5 AI 330 to Bring Windows 11 AI Features to Budget Laptops
AMD is launching a new entry-level variant of its current Ryzen 5 series from X86-CPUS for mobile devices. Thanks to a relatively strong Neural Processing Unit (NPU), the new chip also makes Windows 11 AI features available in cheap laptops.
AMD, not Qualcomm, makes Copilot+ affordable
So far, Microsoft primarily relies on Qualcomm as a partner when it comes to introducing the numerous new functions of Windows 11 from the field of artificial intelligence. This was because Qualcomm was the only provider for a long time to offer platforms with a sufficiently strong “Neural Processing Unit” (NPU). Intel and AMD only followed up later. If you want to use the new Windows 11 AI features, you usually have to dig into your pocket somewhat deeply for devices with Qualcomm chip and the Intel or AMD-based models. You can currently get no notebooks below 600 euros whose NPUs are strong enough to be able to fully use Copilot+ and the associated features.
50 TOPS AI performance & CPU on Zen-5-based
With the AMD Ryzen Ai 5 330, this should change soon. Loud Toms hardware wants to offer AMD a four -core processor with eight threads that can work with clock rates from 2.0 to 4.5 gigahertz and offer an integrated AMD Radeon 820m graphics unit. For the AI features, however, the NPU, which is also integrated, is particularly relevant here, the performance of which should be 50 tops according to AMD. The Ryzen 5 AI 330 offers.
According to the AMD website a single Zen 5 core and three more economical Zen 5c cores, which, unlike the high-end core, reach a maximum of 3.4 GHz. The architecture called the “Krackan Point” serves as the basis, which is a stripped-down version of the more powerful “Strix Point” architecture. It is a chip manufactured on TSMC on a 4-nanometer scale, which unlike many other current CPUs can have a power consumption that can be configured from the respective notebook manufacturer between 15 and 28 watts.
It is still unclear when the first devices with the new AMD Ryzen should be 5 AI 330, but manufacturers such as Lenovo, Acer, Asus, HP and Dell should soon jump on the train. Customers then benefit primarily from the fact that they can also use the new AI features around Microsoft from Microsoft in cheap devices without having to forego their familiar X86/X64 environment and choose an arm-based system.
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