AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Geekbench Debut Shows Promise Despite Throttling
The upcoming AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU, part of AMD's Zen 5 "Strix Point" laptop platform, has appeared on Geekbench, offering a glimpse into its performance. While showing promising results comparable to its more powerful sibling, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, the benchmark reveals heavy throttling likely due to pre-production hardware and software.
Key Takeaways:
- Comparable Performance: Despite throttling, the Ryzen AI 9 365 achieved single and multi-core scores on par with the 12-core Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, highlighting the efficiency of Zen 5 cores.
- Throttling Concerns: The tested sample, running on an Acer Swift laptop, boosted only to 4.4 GHz, significantly lower than the advertised 5.0 GHz, suggesting thermal limitations in the pre-production model.
- Generational Improvement: The Ryzen AI 9 365 outperforms the previous generation Ryzen 9 8945HS in Geekbench 6.2, showcasing the performance gains of the Zen 5 architecture.
- Competition with Intel: While the current Intel Core i9-14900HX leads in single-core performance, the Ryzen AI 9 365's potential performance at its advertised clock speeds could shift the balance.
Looking Forward:
The throttling observed in this early benchmark should be taken with a grain of salt, as optimized drivers and final hardware revisions could drastically improve performance. The Ryzen AI 9 365, alongside the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, has the potential to challenge Intel's dominance in the laptop CPU market.