AMD Announces New Ryzen AI Pro 300 Series Processors, Bringing Copilot+ PCs to Business Users for the First Time
AMD has announced the AMD Ryzen AI Pro 300, an enterprise-focused lineup that will bring more powerful AI chips to businesses and organizations to improve collaboration, security and more.
The new lineup will include three chips for Copilot+ PCs, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 370, and the AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360.
These new chips are a significant step up from the previous Pro generation, the AMD Ryzen Pro 8040 series, and are the first processor series explicitly designed for business users to be Copilot+ compatible.
| Header cell – Column 0 | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375 | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 370 | AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU cores | 12 cores / 24 threads | 12 cores / 24 threads | 8 cores / 16 threads |
| Maximum boost frequency | 5.1GHz | 5.1GHz | 5.0GHz |
| Cache | 36MB | 36MB | 24MB |
| Graphic | AMD Radeon 890M | AMD Radeon 890M | AMD Radeon 880M |
| NPU | 55 TOPS | 50 TOPS | 50 TOPS |
In addition to a much more powerful NPU (up to 55 TOPS for the Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375), AMD says the underlying Zen 5 cores in the CPU offer significantly more multithreaded performance compared to Intel’s competing Core Ultra 7 vPro chips, based on the Intel Meteor Lake architecture.
Intel Lunar Lake processors were launched last month and at the moment there are no vPro versions of these chips, so a more direct comparison is not possible yet, but it is expected that these new Lunar Lake vPro chips will hit the market soon .
In addition to the claims of improved performance, AMD says that laptops with the new Ryzen AI Pro 300 series chips will get up to 23 hours of battery life, a significant increase over previous generations of chips, and that the NPU in these new Ryzen AI Pro 300-series chips will enable new multi-layer security features for the kind of protection business devices need.
Can AMD make progress in Intel’s backyard?
While Intel has undoubtedly been in trouble lately, there is one area where it maintains an absolute dominant position: laptop chips. Although the numbers fluctuate every quarter, Intel’s laptop market share is currently just under 72%. So it’s a crucial source of revenue for Team Blue when it faces strong headwinds elsewhere.
That said, the company has already lost significant market share to AMD over the past five years, and given the nature of enterprise purchasing channels, any progress AMD makes with companies with laptops powered by its chips could further strengthen Intel’s position can hollow out.
It remains to be seen what Intel Lunar Lake vPro chips will do when they launch in the coming months, but any advantage AMD can gain now with Ryzen AI Pro 300 will help it push its way to parity with Intel, while it also provides customers with more options and better innovation through competition.