Intel and Qualcomm will be present at CES 2026, touting their next-generation lightweight laptop CPUs. Meanwhile, AMG is sneaking in the back door with its typical relaxed style, and exhibits a variety of new laptops, desktops and game-specific CPUs. First in the list is the AMD Ryzen AI 400 series, which is located in a metric ton of laptops at the show of this year.
The AI 400 series, similar to 2024’s 300 series, will be used to drive this generation of Copilot+ PS. They run on the Zen 5 architecture of the CPU and peak at a Ryzen AI 9 HX 475 with a 12-core and 24-thread architecture. It reaches 5.2GHz of boost clock on the CPU, and AMD assured that this CPU would be a little bit more efficient in multitasking than its predecessor. The GPU in the new chip is not equipped with any of the latest RDNA 4 GPU architecture (that is, no formal support RDNA 4 GPU architecture (that is, no formal support of the Redstone upscaler used by AMD), but features 16 cores of RDNA 3.5 GPU with a 3.1 GHz boost clock.
Its highest-end CPU is also accompanied by an NPU that reaches 60 TOPS, which means trillions of operations per second. It is an estimated number that can be roughly compared to AI processing power; you should not take the time comparing it to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2, 80 TOPS, NPU.
The Ryzen AI 7 450, an 8-core CPU with a 5.1GHz clock speed of most one of the chips that will show up in laptops with only a 50 TOPS NPU. All in all, it is a relatively unboisterous upgrade to one of the most common AMD CPUs. AMD is also offering to make these newest x86 chips capable of a multi-day battery life, but the exact figures will vary depending on the specifications of each laptop.
That consists of the new Ryzen AI Max + 392 and Max+ 388. Its low-end chip is an eight-core, 16-thread chip, which also fits in the 40 graphics compute units (AMD version of core clusters) that are also present in the high-end Ryzen AI Max +395.
The 388 is an eight-core chip, but it is actually aimed at gamers, and AMD senior VP of client business Rahul Tikoo was talking to Gizmodo in a virtual meeting. AMD was suggesting that there will be additional gaming-related solutions around that include these (hopefully) less expensive Max chips in the entire year 2026.
The APU may also be an attractive option for handheld gaming PCs or other lightweight models. It is only natural to think that some sort of Steam Machine-like device will run on such specs, and games at 1440p and 4K.
The newest chips by AMD are betting high on gamers
