AMD is slated to release its next-gen Zen 5 processors soon, with the Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 9000rumored to arrive on July 15 and 31. However, some tech enthusiasts are excited about these new chips, especially as they’re the first in the Zen 5 family. Hardware tester David Huang got his hands on an engineering sample of the Ryzen AI 9 365, so he ran some quickbenchmarkson the device and shared theresults on his blog.
The platform he tested had 32 GB of LPDDR5x-7500 RAM, but he didn’t provide more information. Huang highlighted that the device is an engineering sample with early firmware, so the retail product’s performance could vary. Take the results with a pinch of salt.
Huang compared the Zen 5 chip’s performance with the previous generation Ryzen 7 7735U and Ryzen 7 7840U AMD chips. It consistently performed better in both Geekbench 5 and Geekbench 6 multi-core benchmarks, delivering 151.81% and 167.64% relative performance compared to the Ryzen 7 7735U. He also tested the chip using single-core benchmarks, and its Zen 5 and more efficient Zen 5c cores both showed a 15% minimum instructions per cycle uplift compared to the last-generation Ryzern 7 7735U.
These numbers align with the 16% IPC improvementAMD claimedfor its Granite Ridge desktop processors. However, they’re slightly lower than the20% higher CPU performance AMD claimsfor the Ryzen AI 300-series, but these tests do not include integrated GPU and NPU tests.
The performance improvement on the Zen 5 mobile chips might seem modest, but what makes it different from AMD’s last-generation processors is the use of a more powerful NPU that can hit up to 50 TOPS. Whilethe Ryzen AI 300 PCs won’t come with Copilot+ featureswhen it launches, it will eventually get them via a Windows Update later this year. Furthermore, apps that support on-device AI processing from AMD could already take advantage of the chip’s NPU.
These tests are from an engineering sample, so nothing is set in stone yet. Nevertheless, they are an indication of what we could expect from AMD’s next-generation processors, and we’d love to see how they’d perform in the real world. This is especially true asMicrosoftand Qualcomm have just launched their Snapdragon X-powered Copilot+ PCs; we can’t wait to get our hands on both next-gen chips and run them head-to-head against each other.
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Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.
