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Today at CES, AMD is announcing its successor, the Ryzen AI 400 line — but there’s nothing next-gen special about the “Gorgon Point.”
It’s based on the same CPU cores as the Zen 5 and Zen 5c, with the same RDNA 3.5 graphics, and has the exact same number of cores as its predecessors, too — the “475” has 12 cores, 24 threads, 16 GPUs like the “375,” and so on.
The main differences are a slight increase in CPU and GPU frequency, more memory bandwidth, and a faster NPU for AI tasks in the first two models. The HX 475 now offers 60 upper parts, while the HX 470 offers 55 upper parts.
They’re similar enough that AMD largely dodged a question about how fast they were when we asked, instead comparing them to Intel’s Lunar Lake chips (not the new Panther Lake):
But Rahul Tiku, AMD’s client CPU lead, claims that the AI 400 is somewhat faster than the AI 300, and that improvements in manufacturing, firmware, software, frequency bumps, and memory should make a difference in performance.
Since AMD’s AI 300 chips already perform so well, any improvement could be enough. But when laptops ship this quarter (Q1 2026) from all the usual suspects (including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo), these chips will start to struggle. Intel just unveiled Tiger Lake and Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 line. All three sets of laptops will start shipping in the same time frame.
AMD isn’t really talking about price today amid RAM crisisHowever, other than to point out that Ryzen AI systems typically start as low as $499, while Ryzen AI Max systems are priced between $1,000 and $1,500.