AMD Unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series with Minor Upgrades and Higher Clocks

AMD has officially introduced its Ryzen AI 400 series laptop APUs at Computex 2026, alongside new desktop processors. Despite the new naming, these chips represent mostly minor upgrades over the previous Ryzen AI 300 series, maintaining the same Zen 5 cores but with higher clock speeds, expanded memory support, and an enhanced XDNA 2 NPU.

The Ryzen AI 400 series, code-named Gorgan Point, includes seven laptop chips ranging from the Ryzen AI 4 435 up to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 475. The top-end model features 12 Zen 5 CPU cores, 24 threads, 36MB of combined cache, a 60 TOPS NPU, and 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores capable of boosting up to 3.1 GHz. Memory support has been increased to 8,533 MT/s, up from the 8,000 MT/s of the Ryzen AI 300 series.

AMD claims that the new chips deliver better battery life, promising up to 24 hours of use on a single charge. In terms of performance, AMD states that the Ryzen AI 400 series offers a 71% uplift in content creation tasks and around a 12% average increase in gaming frame rates at 1080p low settings compared to competitors. Specific gaming titles showed gains ranging from 105% to 119% in frame rate improvements.

Laptops featuring the Ryzen AI 400 series are expected to launch globally in the first quarter of 2026. AMD has partnered with major laptop manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, HP, and Lenovo for this rollout. There are also rumors that Lenovo plans to unveil new Legion 7a and Legion 5a models with these chips at CES 2026.