AMD announced that it is now world’s fastest in nearly all CPU form-factors. The company took Gold and Silver places in the latest Top500 supercomputers list, driven by a combination of 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” CPUs and Instinct MI300A AI GPUs.
It also has the world’s most powerful AI PC processor with the Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” processor. With AMD enabling OEMs to combine the chip with up to 96 GB of unified 256-bit LPDDR5X memory, “Strix Halo” is the only PC processor capable of accelerating 128B-parameter AI models locally.
AMD has the world’s fastest desktop processor for both gaming and productivity in the Ryzen 9 9950X3D “Granite Ridge-X”, which is significantly faster than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K in both gaming and productivity. It also has the world’s fastest processor for laptops with the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D “Fire Range-X,” which is essentially a mobile-friendly BGA package of the 9950X3D. With their high core counts, higher memory channel and PCIe lane counts, 5th Gen EPYC “Turin” processors dominate the server space in performance per socket. Ryzen semi-custom chips dominate gaming consoles.
Ryzen Threadripper 9000 “Shimada Peak” is the undisputed king of HEDT and workstation processors. Perhaps the only form-factors AMD isn’t dominating are mobile processors in the U- and H-segments, with the “Strix Point” silicon falling behind “Arrow Lake-U” and “Arrow Lake-H” in CPU performance.