Just below that in the line-up is the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370, an identical chip with slightly less NPU performance — up to 50 TOPS. And the entry-level chip is the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 with 8 cores/16 threads, a 5GHz clock speed, Radeon 880M graphics, and the same 50 TOPS NPU performance.
NPUs are on the new frontline of desktop competition because they make possible features such as accelerating Microsoft’s Copilot + and AI-intensive tasks such as real-time language translation.
They also pit AMD against traditional rival Intel, which has had NPUs of its own in its Core Ultra CPUs since 2023. Today, NPU AI acceleration is premium priced, but there are signs the technology is likely to jump quickly to more mainstream chips.