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AMD Announces Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series Desktop CPUs For AI-Focused Computing

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AMD is using Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week to announce new Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series products, including Ryzen AI PRO 400 desktop processors.

Complementing the existing Ryzen AI PRO 400 series, which complemented the Ryzen AI 400 series (non-PRO) introduction earlier this year at CES, is now new mobile workstation offerings. Still Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 based.

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While what Phoronix readers will likely find most interesting is the new Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series desktop processors. These are Zen 5 desktop socketed processors but now having the Ryzen AI NPU onboard for complementing local AI inference workloads.

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Ryzen AI PRO 400 series desktop processors will be available in up to 8 core / 16 thread Zen 5 configurations with up to 8 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units and the XDNA 2 NPU rated for 50 TOPS.

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The Ryzen AI PRO 400 series desktop CPUs being announced today include the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450G, Ryzen AI 5 PRO 440G / 440GE, and the Ryzen AI 5 PRO 435G / 435GE. The G processors are 65 Watt SKUs while the GE variants are 35 Watts.

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The Ryzen AI 400 series commercial designs are expected to appear in Q2.

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That's the brief overview for now with the limited information shared in advance of today's embargo lift for MWC 2026. More details and Linux benchmarks once having any hardware to test. It will be interesting to see if they can make the AMD Ryzen AI / XDNA story any more compelling for Linux users ahead of the new hardware appearing next quarter given the rather limited software ecosystem adoption thus far.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=amd-mwc-2026&image=mwc_ryzen_ai_400_1_lrg

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=amd-mwc-2026&image=mwc_ryzen_ai_400_2_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=amd-mwc-2026&image=mwc_ryzen_ai_400_3_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=amd-mwc-2026&image=mwc_ryzen_ai_400_4_lrg

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=amd-mwc-2026&image=mwc_ryzen_ai_400_5_lrg



Treaty of Helsinki Signed

HELSINKI, FINLAND -- A cease-fire in the flame war between Linux and
FreeBSD has been reached. A group of two dozen Linux and FreeBSD zealots
met in Helsinki to ratify a treaty bringing a temporary end to the hostile
fighting between both camps. "Today is a good day for peace," one observer
noted. "Now both sides can lay down their keyboards and quit flaming the
opposing side on Usenet and Slashdot."

The cease-fire is a response to the sudden increase in fighting that has
occured over the past two weeks. The Slashdot server became a victim of
the cross-fire this week when thousands of Anonymous Cowards and Geek
Zealots posted inflammatory comments that amounted to, "My OS is better
than your OS!" Many nerds, suffering withdrawl symptoms when the Slashdot
site slowed to a crawl, demanded that the bickering stop.

"I can't take it anymore! It takes two minutes to download the Slashdot
homepage -- assuming the site is actually online. I must have my 'News for
Nerds' now! The fighting must stop," one Anonymous Coward ranted.