AMD 'Strix Halo' Test Bench Appears On Geekbench

You never know what surprise hardware will show up on Geekbench. This time, it’s a Ryzen AI Max 300 series APU known by the codename Strix Halo. We’ve been hearing bits here and there about a high-end platform for high-performance laptops and possibly workstations. The new chips, which include both CPU and GPU cores, are likely to compete with Apple’s M series and other competing hardware. AMD is expected to formally unveil the new APU line at CES, less than a month away.

AMD’s penchant for long product names is evident in its latest offering, which (according to the Geekbench entry) is an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395. The name field also notes that the GPU portion of this CPU/GPU set is the AMD Radeon 8060S. The CPU has a clock speed of 3.0GHz and 16 cores. The motherboard is listed as an ...