AMD’s upcoming APU refresh with the Ryzen Artificial Intelligence Max 400 series is divided into ‘Gorgon Point’ and ‘Gorgon Halo.’ One of the first ‘Gorgon Halo’ parts has now appeared in the PassMark testing database as the Ryzen Artificial Intelligence Max+ PRO 495.
The AMD Ryzen Artificial Intelligence Max+ PRO 495 ‘Gorgon Halo’ APU features 16 cores and 32 threads based on the current ‘Zen 5’ CPU architecture. These cores can reach a boost frequency of up to 5.2 GHz, which is about a 100 MHz improvement over the current ‘Strix Halo’ APU generation. The chip is paired with RDNA 3.5 graphics in the form of a Radeon 8065S, which appears to be an overclocked version of the current Radeon 8060S. This new Radeon 8065S iGPU runs at 3.0 GHz, while the current Radeon 8060S runs at about 2.9 GHz. No increase in cores is expected here, and the ‘Gorgon Halo’s’ integrated graphics should continue with the 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs.
PassMark’s comparisons now list the new Ryzen Artificial Intelligence Max+ PRO 495 ‘Gorgon Halo’ APU as about 4% ahead in multicore and about 3% in single-core benchmarks compared to the AMD Ryzen Artificial Intelligence Max+ PRO 395 ‘Strix Halo’ APU. The gains are attributed to better efficiency enabled by the higher boost frequency rather than a major architectural change in the graphics configuration.
Memory capacity is another notable part of the update. With the previous ‘Strix Halo,’ the maximum memory configuration was 128 GB, while the latest ‘Gorgon Point’ shows 192 GB of LPDDR5X memory, suggesting that AMD has updated its integrated memory controller to increase the maximum memory capacity.
