AMD has announced a new generation of Ryzen chips that pack more AI for Copilot+ PCs, and they’ll be coming to laptops soon.
The AI race is on for Windows laptops and, after Microsoft bet the first generation of “Copilot+ PCs” on Qualcomm, AMD is stepping up with Ryzen AI 300, a series of chips that pack more AI power than the Snapdragon X Elite.
The move to Windows on Arm is in large part about battery life, but it’s also about AI. That’s thanks to the powerful NPU in the Snapdragon X Elite which hits 45 TOPS. That’s a high mark on the measurement of how many operations per second the NPU can handle.
AMD is now beating that, the company claims.
With the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 series, the company says that it can handle 50 TOPS. That beats the Snapdragon X Elite and means that laptops powered by these new chips qualify as Copilot+ PCs with Microsoft’s additional features such as “Recall.
