Ryzen 8040 official announcement! AMD’s first AI PC performance soars by 60% and will increase three times next year – Kuai Technology – Technology changes the future

The Ryzen 7040 series processors released by AMD in early 2023 not only bring the most advanced 4nm manufacturing process, Zen4 CPU architecture, and RDNA3 GPU architecture to notebooks to date, but also add independent NPU AI engine hardware to x86 processors for the first time unit.

This is Ryzen AI, which also created the new concept and application of AI PC.

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In the early morning of December 7, Beijing time, at the AMD Advancing AI Conference in San Jose, California, AMD announced the latest application progress of AI PC on the one hand, and the next generation Ryzen 8040 series and processor on the other. AI PC is evolving to new heights.

The AMD Ryzen AI engine is based on the newly designed XDNA architecture, which can perform AI workloads locally without the network and cloud, thereby reducing latency and protecting privacy.

Of course, it can also run in a device-cloud hybrid scenario, allocating tasks and co-accelerating between cloud servers and local notebooks.

at present,There are already dozens of notebook products based on Ryzen 7040 series processors, with millions of units shipped.covering major cooperative brands such as Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Razer, and Xiaomi.

The applications of Ryzen AI are also constantly expanding,Partners include Adobe, Microsoft, Avid, Bori SFX, OBS Studio, Topaz Labs, Zoom, Cyberlink, XSplit VCam, Luminar, Audacity, Arkrunr, Blackmagic Design, Capcut, as well as domestic Bytedance, iQiyi, etc.

There are currently more than 100 Ryzen AI-driven acceleration functions, especially in creative design software such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effect, Lightroom, etc., which can greatly improve efficiency in a large number of daily operations.

All of the above are implemented for the first time in a thin and light notebook. Whether it is daily entertainment, office work or content creation, cost efficiency can be improved.

now,AMD has built a new Ryzen AI software platform to support the most popular AI models such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and ONNX..

Developers can use this to fully tap the performance of the Ryzen AI engine and more easily deploy generative and other AI applications and acceleration.

In order to encourage developers to innovate, AMD also launchedThe first Pervasive AI Developer Challengecreating innovative AI applications for data centers, workstations, laptops, games, robots and other fields.

The generative AI competition is based on the Radeon Pro W7900 professional graphics card or the Instinct MI210 accelerator, the robot AI is based on the Kria KR620 robot kit, and the PC AI is based on the Ryzen 7040 series processor. The maximum prize for each category is US$10,000, and the total prize is up to $155,000.

face to the future,AMD today officially announced the next-generation mobile processor Ryzen 8040 series, development code-named Hawk Point, which continues to evolve on the basis of the Ryzen 7040 series (development code-named Pheonix).

The Ryzen 8040 series is still based on the Zen4 CPU architecture, RDNA3 GPU architecture, and XDNA NPU architecture. By further tapping the potential, especially improving the frequency and efficiency of each part, it will bring a higher level of AI performance.

in,NPU AI performance computing power increased from 10TOPS to 16TOPS, an astonishing 60% increase, which also increased the overall computing power from 33TOPS to 39TOPS.

For example, the performance of Llama 2 major language models can be improved by up to 40%, and the performance of visual models can also be improved by up to 40%.

Of course, basic performance has also improved a lot. Official data claims that multi-threading performance has been improved by up to 10%, game performance has been improved by up to 80%, and content creation performance has been improved by up to 40%.

The above is the complete model and specification table of the Ryzen 8040 series. It is related to the existing Ryzen 7040 series but not one-to-one. There should be an H series for the domestic market.

Ryzen 9 8945HS, Ryzen 7 8845HS, Ryzen 5 8645HSIt is a newly added sequence. The basic specifications correspond to Ryzen 9 7940HS, Ryzen 7 7840HS, and Ryzen 5 7640HS. The number of CPU cores, acceleration frequency, number of GPU units, and thermal design power consumption range are consistent.

Officials claim that the top model Ryzen 9 8945HS leads the competition in video editing performance by up to 64%, 3D rendering performance by up to 37%, and gaming performance by up to 77% compared to the competing Core i9-13900H.

Ryzen 7 8840HS, Ryzen 5 8640HSCorresponding to the current Ryzen 7 7840HS and Ryzen 5 7640HS respectively,The thermal design power consumption range shrinks from 35-54W to 20-30W.

As the power consumption range decreases, the core frequency will inevitably be lower, among whichRyzen 7 8840HS 3.3-5.1GHz, the base frequency is reduced by 500MHz, Ryzen 5 8640HS 3.5-4.9GHz, reduced by 800MHz and 100MHz respectively.

In this way, the 8045HS and 8040HS series have stepped up the performance ladder and can be easily used in notebook products of different grades and price points.

Ryzen 7 8840U, Ryzen 5 8640U, Ryzen 5 8540U, Ryzen 3 8440UCorresponding to the current Ryzen 7 7840U, Ryzen 5 7640U, Ryzen 5 7540U, and Ryzen 3 8440U respectively, the basic specifications remain unchanged, butThermal design power consumption has been expanded from a fixed 28W to a range of 15-30Wmore flexible.

It should be noted that Ryzen 5 8540U and Ryzen 3 8440U should continue to use small cores, Zen4, and Zen4c hybrid architectures, and do not integrate NPU units.

The Ryzen 8040 series has been shipped, and related notebook products will be launched in the first quarter of 2024. OEM brands include Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Razer.

What’s even more exciting will be waiting for the next generation of “Strix Point”, which will be launched in 2024 and will be upgraded to a new generation of NPU based on the XDNA 2 architecture. It is claimed that the performance of generative AI will soar by more than 3 times.

It was previously reported that Strix Point will also upgrade the Zen5 CPU architecture and RDNA3.5 GPU architecture, which is expected to be released around mid-2024.