AMD advances the AI PC with the new AMD Ryzen 8040 series processors and Ryzen A...

Sunday, 10 December 2023 14:36

AMD advances the AI PC with the new AMD Ryzen 8040 series processors and Ryzen AI software

By David M Williams

Processor manufacturer AMD has announced its new AMD Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors, bringing best-in-class x86 processor performance and in-built AI smarts on silicon with the integrated Ryzen AI neural processor (NPU). It's the era of the AI PC, and Ryzen is also making its Ryzen AI software widely available so users can easily build and deploy machine learning models.

The Ryzen 8040 series of Ryzen mobile processors with integrated Ryzen AI NPU on-die (on select models) brings up to 1.6x more AI processing performance than prior AMD models. AMD's product portfolio will deliver greater premium experiences and AI-ready capabilities. To further enable great AI experiences, AMD is also making its Ryzen AI software widely available.

OEMs including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Razer will release AMD Ryzen 8040 devices beginning in the first quarter of 2024.

“We continue to deliver high-performance and power-efficient NPUs with Ryzen AI technology to reimagine the PC,” said AMD computing and graphics business SVP and GM Jack Huynh. “The increased AI capabilities of the 8040 series will now handle larger models to enable the next phase of AI user experiences.”

AMD Ryzen™ 8040 Series processors offer next-level performance from everyday productivity to incredible content creation, with the Ryzen 9 8945HS processor offering up to 64% faster video editing and up to 37% faster 3D rendering than the competition, while gamers can enjoy up to 77% faster gaming performance.

Designed on AMD “Zen 4” processor architecture and with up to eight cores capable of delivering up to 16 threads of processing power, the Ryzen 9 8945HS offers leading single-core and multi-core performance. With AMD RDNA 3 architecture-based Radeon graphics and select systems powered by AMD XDNA architecture built for AMD Ryzen AI, the new processors are designed for creative professionals, gamers, and mainstream users looking for a powerful laptop with trusted performance today, and the capability to run advanced AI experiences.

The latest Ryzen processors provide the most performance available for ultrathin PC laptops and long battery life through innovative power management features, making it the perfect choice for modern professionals, gaming enthusiasts and creatives looking for faster and more power-efficient computing. AMD Ryzen 8040 Series processors also come with advanced LPDDR5 memory support. With these new processors, users can take advantage of immersive virtual experiences, gaming and streaming, and trust that their devices support demanding AI use cases while maintaining power efficiency.

Here are the details on the range:

Model	Cores / Threads	Boost/Base Frequency	Total Cache	TDP	NPU
AMD Ryzen™ 9 8945HS	8C/16T	Up to 5.2 GHz / 4.0 GHz	24MB	45W	Yes
AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS	8C/16T	Up to 5.1 GHz / 3.8 GHz	24MB	45W	Yes
AMD Ryzen™ 7 8840HS	8C/16T	Up to 5.1 GHz / 3.3 GHz	24MB	28W	Yes
AMD Ryzen™ 7 8840U	8C/16T	Up to 5.1 GHz / 3.3 GHz	24MB	28W	Yes
AMD Ryzen™ 5 8645HS	6C/12T	Up to 5.0 GHz / 4.3 GHz	22MB	45W	Yes
AMD Ryzen™ 5 8640HS	6C/12T	Up to 4.9 GHz / 3.5 GHz	22MB	28W	Yes
AMD Ryzen™ 5 8640U	6C/12T	Up to 4.9 GHz / 3.5 GHz	22MB	28W	Yes
AMD Ryzen™ 5 8540U	6C/12T	Up to 4.9 GHz / 3.2 GHz	22MB	28W	NA
AMD Ryzen™ 3 8440U	4C/8T	Up to 4.7 GHz / 3.0 GHz	12MB	28W	NA

AMD Ryzen 8040 processors are ready to leverage the full range of the Windows 11 ecosystem for optimized performance, including full support for Windows 11 security features. Select systems with an AMD Ryzen 8040 Series processor can also access out-of-the-box AI with Window Studio Effects Pack, enabling privacy at home or on the go with background blur, eye gaze tracking, and noise cancellation.

"It’s been incredible to see AMD and Microsoft's long partnership moving into the next wave of technology, bringing AI innovation to our shared customers,” said Microsoft CVP Windows + Devices Pavan Davuluri. “We’re so excited to see Ryzen 8040 Series processor-powered devices come to life in the Windows ecosystem and can’t wait to see what developers and customers do with all of this innovation.”

Ryzen AI software

Additionally, Ryzen AI Software is now widely available, making it possible for developers to build and deploy machine learning models trained in frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow and run them on select laptops powered by Ryzen AI.

The 1.0 version of Ryzen AI software enables ONNX Runtime applications. It offers a pre-optimized model zoo on Hugging Face, allowing users to get started and up and running AI models in minutes. Laptops with Ryzen AI can offload AI models to the NPU, thereby freeing up the CPU to reduce power consumption while extending battery life. As part of the Ryzen AI software launch, developers can take advantage of Ryzen AI to build AI applications with advanced gesture recognition, biometric authentication, and other accessibility features. Developers are also given early access support for Automatic Speech Recognition models like Whisper and Large Language Models (LLM) like OPT and Llama-2 to build natural language speech interfaces for their applications and unlock other Natural Language Processing features such as document summarization and email assistance.

AMD also recently announced the Pervasive AI Developers Contest to challenge developers to create innovative and exciting AI applications with use cases in data centres, workstations and laptops, gaming, robotics, and more. One contest option is for developers to build PC applications using vision, speech, or domain-optimized LLMs to bring the AI PC to life and highlight its potential to improve user experience and efficiency. Applications for the complementary hardware close on 31 January 2024.

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