AMD expands Krackan Point lineup with Ryzen AI 5 330

AMD's Krackan Point processor lineup debuted earlier this year as a lower-cost, lower-performance alternative to the AMD Strix Point chips that launched last year. At launch, there were only two Krackan Point processors available though.

Now there are three. AMD is adding the Ryzen AI 5 330 as a new mobile chip for lower-cost laptops and mini PCs. It still has an NPU that delivers up to 50 TOPS of AI performance, but it's a significantly less powerful chip than others in the family.

All of AMD's Ryzen AI 300 series processors (including Strix Point and Krackan Point) have CPUs based on Zen 5 architecture, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and a 50 TOPS NPU.

The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen AI 5 340 Krackan Point chips are architecturally so similar to their Strix Point counterparts that it seems like the only reason AMD put them in a different family is because it reserve the "Strix" name for its highest-performing processors. The Strix Point chips have more CPU and GPU cores and more cache thein their lower-cost siblings.

AMD's new Ryzen AI 5 330 takes things to a whole new level though – not only does it have 50 percent fewer CPU and GPU cores than the Ryzen AI 5 340, but it also has substantially less cache and the maximum TDP is just over half of what the other chips support.

Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" Cores / Threads Freq Cache GPU NPU TDP Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12 (4 x Zen 5 + 8 x Zen 5c) / 24 Up to 5.1 GHz 36MB Radeon 890M (16 x RDNA 3.5 cores @ up to 2.9 GHz) 50 TOPS 15 – 54W Ryzen AI 9 365 10 (4 x Zen 5 + 6 x Zen 5c) / 20 Up to 5 GHz 34MB Radeon 890M (12 x RDNA 3.5 cores @ up to 2.9 GHz) 50 TOPS 15 – 54W Ryzen AI 300 "Krackan Point" Cores / Threads Freq Cache GPU NPU TDP AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 8 (4 x Zen 5 + 4 x Zen 5c) / 16 Up to 5 GHz 24MB Radeon 860M (8 x RDNA 3.5 cores @ up to 3 GHz) 50 TOPS 15 – 54W AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 6 (3 Zen 5 + 3 Zen 5c) / 12 Up to 4.8 GHz 22MB Radeon 840M (4 x RDNA 3.5 cores @ up to 2.9 GHz) 50 TOPS 15 – 54W AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 4 (1 x Zen 5 + 3 Zen 5c) / 8 Up to 4.5 GHz 12MB Radeon 820M (2 x RDNA 3.5 cores @ up to 2.8 GHz) 50 TOPS 15 – 28W

Leaked benchmarks from before launch show that the chip isn't exactly slow… it's a Ryzen 5 series processor that offers single-core CPU performance close to what you'd expect from an older Ryzen 7 chip like the Ryzen 7 8840U.

But it lags far behind it other Ryzen AI 300 series chips in terms of multi-core CPU performance, and with just 2 GPU cores I would expect this chip to be fine for things like 4K video playback, but not much good for gaming or other graphics-heavy tasks.

AMD says we should start to see computers powered by the new chip in the coming months, from companies including acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI.

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