This is one of the earliest benchmarks of a Ryzen Strix HALO SKU and confirms the naming scheme we saw in previous rumors. While the CPU wasn’t benchmarked, we did get to see the raw performance of its iGPU in the GeekBench Vulkan test.
AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 w/ Radeon 8060 S features 16 cores and 32 threads, scores 67004 points in the Vulkan test
We saw some earlier engineering samples of upcoming AMD Ryzen HALO being benchmarked on Geekbench previously but those didn’t reveal much about the details of this upcoming APU series. This time not only we are seeing the performance numbers of one of the SKUs but the actual specifications as well.
Apparently, AMD is surely going with the “MAX” naming convention for the STRIX HALO but the name is longer than expected. As spotted by @BenchLeaks, the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 was spotted on GeekBench in a Vulkan test. Vulkan is specifically for the graphics processing unit but we can see the core specifications of the processor have been revealed.
The Strix HALO will be notebook-specific and will be based on the Zen 5 and Zen 5c architectures. The Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 is supposedly the flagship SKU in the series, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads. Even though the specs page reveals that the CPU brings 16 cores in a single cluster, this is probably not true. Zen 5 doesn’t have the capability to bring 16 cores on a single CCD and hence, it’s safe to assume that the processor has dual CCDs with 8 cores in each core complex die.
The base frequency is listed as 3.00GHz but we don’t know how far it can go when the turbo mode is activated. The total L3 cache is 64 MB, 32 MB for each CCD, and 16 MB of L2 cache. Now coming to its integrated graphics, as per reliable reports, the Strix HALO will feature RDNA 3.5 architecture for its graphics processing unit and the flagship SKU is going to max at 40 Compute Units.
AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 is coming with Radeon 8060S iGPU, which reveals how AMD is going with the iGPU naming convention. More importantly, we can see how it performs. The iGPU scored 67004 points, which is quite low compared to predecessors like the Radeon 890M, which manages to cross 100,000 points easily. However, one should keep in mind that GeekBench scores can be pretty inaccurate, particularly when there is a single benchmark. The more a CPU/GPU gets benchmarked, the more accurately we can predict its performance against other products.
We will wait and see how well the Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 can perform in various tests, particularly GPU-oriented workloads as this is the first time AMD has managed to increase the Compute Units count to 40, which is significantly higher than the Radeon 890M, which features 16 CUs.
