AMD today unveiled its new Ryzen 8040 series Hawk Point APUs and Ryzen 8050 Strix Point APUs, which are being designed with Microsoft’s next-gen AI-focused Windows 11 and (12) ambitions.
At its Advancing AI presentation today, AMD made a ton of new announcements related to its upcoming products in the field of AI. While much of the talk was about enterprise-class hardware, AMD also revealed its new consumer Ryzen AI APUs as it introduced its new Ryzen 8040 series lineup.
The Ryzen 8040 series (codenamed «Hawk Point») succeeds the Ryzen 7040 series which was released earlier this year. Although this is the new 8000 series, AMD confirms that the processor is still Zen 4, though the performance of the NPU (neural processing unit), which is the dedicated AI processing hardware, should be up to 40% higher, thanks to the 60% throughput boost Hawk Point gets with its 16 TOPS (trillion operations per second) NPUs.
