AMD Krackan (Point): Cheaper long-life APUs with Zen 5(c), RDNA 3.5 and 50 TOPS 20 comments
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There is still room below Strix Halo and Strix Point, but above the old Ryzen 8000 Mobile Ryzen 200: Krackan (Point) now takes it with AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen AI 5 340. Strix’s constants are still the 50 TOPS powerful NPU for Copilot+, Zen 5(c) and RDNA 3.5. But there are also compromises.
Table of Contents Cheaper Long Life APUs with Zen 5(c), RDNA 3.5 and 50 TOPS Krackan Point vs Strix Point/Halo Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen AI 5 340 in DetailWith Zen 5 and Zen 5c iGPUs with 8 or just 4 CU Extremely long operating times Krackan Point: Overview of key technical data
Krackan Point vs. Strix Point/Halo
AMD Strix Point and especially AMD Strix Halo are high-end products, so AMD partner solutions were, are or will be correspondingly expensive. Alternatively, there is the older Ryzen 8000 Mobile “Hawk Point”, which AMD will let live as the Ryzen 200 – but they only offer a 16 TOPS NPU and therefore have no Copilot+ support.
So AMD had to bring more choices to the market, as quickly as possible and at a lower price. This is where Krackan Point comes into play.
Halo Series: AMD Ryzen AI Max 300 (Strix Halo)
maximum. 16 Zen 5 cores, 40 CU RDNA 3.5, 50 TOPPremium series: AMD Ryzen AI 9 300 (Strix Point)
maximum. 4/8 Zen 5/Zen 5c cores, 16 CU RDNA 3.5, 55 TOPSAdvanced-Series: AMD Ryzen AI 7/5 (Krackan Point)
maximum. 4/4 cores Zen 5/Zen 5c, 8 CU RDNA 3.5, 50 series TOPSEinstiegs: AMD Ryzen 200 (aka Hawk Point)
maximum. 8 Zen 4 cores, 12 CU RDNA 3, 16 HIGH
Smaller AMD Ryzen AI 300, aka Krackan (Dot) (Image: AMD)
Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen AI 5 340 in detail
The first two solutions will debut as the Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen AI 5 340. AMD has not yet revealed what the new APU looks like, but it is expected to be significantly smaller than the monolithic Strix Point Die at 12 cores (4 × Zen 5 and 8 × Zen 5c) and 16 iGPU CUs. At Krackan Point (KRK) there are probably only 4+4 cores and an 8 CU iGPU.
With Zen 5 and Zen 5c
The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 relies on four Zen 5 cores plus four Zen 5c cores, the smaller AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 relies on 3+3.
Clock speeds up to 5.0 GHz are almost identical to the Strix Point, but they generally only apply to big cores. AMD did not name the small cores in advance. The cache, on the other hand, is reduced considerably; with Strix Point it is up to 36 MB in size and with KRK it is only a maximum of 24 MB.
The smallest AMD Ryzen AI 300 at a glance (Image: AMD)
iGPU with 8 or only 4 CUs
AMD will also specify the integrated graphics unit in more detail upon request. Titled Radeon 860M for the Ryzen AI 7 350 model in the footnotes, this solution relies on 8 CUs. There is a Radeon 840M in the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340, so there are only 4 CUs. Memory support goes up to LPDDR5-8000, which was also recently released for Strix Point.
The opponents of AMD’s newcomers come from Intel and Qualcomm. Both are also moving into the cheaper laptop market, and AMD wants and needs to survive here. According to our own tests, this can succeed; independent reviews will have to prove this in the coming months.
Extremely long operating times
According to AMD, Krackan Point is not only fast and cheap, but with a smaller chip footprint it should also enable even longer runtimes than already possible with Strix Point. AMD Ryzen AI 300 smaller in manufacturer benchmarks
Krackan Point: Key technical data at a glance
The following table provides the previously known key technical data for Krackan compared to Strix Point Halo (Ryzen AI Max 300), Strix Point (Ryzen AI 9 300) and Hawk Point (formerly Ryzen 8000 Mobile, soon Ryzen 200):
Ryzen AI Max 300 (Strix Halo), Ryzen AI 9 300 (Strix Point), Ryzen AI 7/5 300 (Krackan Point) and Ryzen 200 (Hawk Point) in the comparison model architecture cores/
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(Base/Turbo) Graphics L2+L3-Cache
(MB) TDP
(Watts) NPU
(TOPS) AMD Ryzen AI Max 300 (Strix Halo) Ryzen AI Max+ (Pro) 395 Z5 16/32 3.0-5.1 GHz Radeon 8060S
RDNA 3.5, 40 CU, 2.9 GHz 80 45–120 50 Ryzen AI Max (Pro) 390 Z5 12/24 3.2-5.0 GHz Radeon 8050S
RDNA 3.5, 32 CU, 2.8 GHz 76 45–120 50 Ryzen AI Max (Pro) 385 Z5 8/16 4.6-5.0 GHz Radeon 8050S
RDNA 3.5, 32 CU, 2.8 GHz 40 45–120 50 Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 Z5 6/12 3.6-4.9 GHz Radeon 8040S
RDNA 3.5, 16 CU, 2.8 GHz 22 45-120 50 AMD Ryzen AI 9 300 (Strix Point) Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 4×Z5 + 8×Z5c 12/24 2.0-5.1 GHz Radeon 890M
RDNA 3.5, 16 CU, 2.9 GHz 36 15-54 55 Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 4×Z5 + 8×Z5c 12/24 2.0-5.1 GHz Radeon 890M
RDNA 3.5, 16 CU, 2.9 GHz 36 15-54 50 Ryzen AI 9 365 4×Z5 + 6×Z5c 10/20 2.0-5.0 GHz Radeon 880M
RDNA 3.5, 12 CU, 2.9 GHz 34 15-54 50 AMD Ryzen AI 7 & 5 300 (Krackan Point) Ryzen AI 7 (Pro) 350 4×Z5 + 4×Z5c 8/16 2.0-5.0 Radeon 860M GHz
RDNA 3.5, 8 CU, 3.0 GHz 24 15-54 50 Ryzen AI 5 (Pro) 340 3×Z5 + 3×Z5c 6/12 2.0-4.8 GHz Radeon 840M
RDNA 3.5, 4 CU, 2.9 GHz 22 15-54 50 AMD Ryzen 200 / 8000 Mobile (Hawk Point) Ryzen 9 270 Zen 4 8/16 4.0-5.2 GHz Radeon 780M
RDNA 3, 12 CU, 2.8 GHz 24 35-54 16 Ryzen 7 260 Zen 4 8/16 3.8-5.1 GHz Radeon 780M
RDNA 3, 12 CU, 2.7 GHz 24 35-54 16 Ryzen 7 (Pro) 250 Zen 4 8/16 3.3-5.1 GHz Radeon 780M
RDNA 3, 12 CU, 2.7 GHz 24 15-54 16 Ryzen 5 240 Zen 4 6/12 4.3-5.0 GHz Radeon 760M
RDNA 3, 8 CU, 2.6 GHz 22 35-54 16 Ryzen 5 230 (Pro) Zen4 6/12 3.5-4.9 GHz Radeon 760M
RDNA 3, 8 CU, 2.6 GHz 22 15-30 16 Ryzen 5 220 (Pro) 2×Zen 4 + 4×Zen 4c 6/12 3.2-4.9 GHz Radeon 740M
RDNA 3, 4 CU, 2.8 GHz 22 15-30 – Ryzen 3 210 1×Zen 4 + 3×Zen 4c 4/8 3.0-4.7 GHz Radeon 740M
RDNA 3, 4 CU, 2.5 GHz 12 15-30 –
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