The ROG Flow Z13 is the first laptop with one of the AMD Strix HALO CPUs to get listed on retailers but more importantly, it outperforms the last-gen flagship 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX CPU with a good margin.
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 scores 2894 points in single and 20708 points in multi-core Geekbench tests
AMD’s upcoming Strix Halo processors are leaking quite frequently these days. Apart from the naming convention reveal, the performance numbers are surfacing online, which allows us to position these processors against already existing CPUs from AMD and Intel. The latest one is related to one of the high-end Strix Halo chips, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads.
Apparently, this was a part of an ASUS laptop, more specifically the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 gaming laptop with model name: GZ302EA. This was listed on two retailers: KOMP and Algo with the full specifications of the laptop revealed. The processor used is the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 w/Radeon 8060S, which is different from the Ryzen AI Max+ “Pro” 395, which I reported about a few days ago. This is also a 16-core/32-thread processor just like the Pro version but brings lower clock speeds.
The base clock mentioned is 3.00GHz while the boost clock is over 3.9GHz, which could mean a max boost clock of 4.0GHz. This is 400MHz slower than the Pro version but other specs seem to be identical, including the Radeon 8060S iGPU, which brings 40 Compute Units based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture. When benchmarked in the Geekbench 6.3 app, the CPU scored 2894 points in single-core and 20708 points in multi-core tests.
Compared to the flagship 16-core/32-thread Zen 4-based AMD Ryzen 7 7945HX CPU, it is roughly on par with the single-core and about 25% faster in multi-core performance. Still, take these numbers with a grain of salt as Geekbench results could be inaccurate at times but it’s highly likely that the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 will be significantly faster than the processors.
The processor will bring dual CCDs with each Core Complex Dies containing 8 cores and 32MB L3 cache, totaling 64MB. There are some more Strix Halo chips, featuring lower core/thread count but this one appears to be one of the fastest ones both in terms of CPU and GPU configuration. Strix Halo is a big jump over the predecessors, and even the current Zen 5 Strix Point APUs, which bring a max of 12 CUs in integrated graphics.
AMD is striving to max out the graphics performance of its Zen 5 architecture with the Strix Halo series, which is reported to arrive in the early part of 2025.
