AMD Expands Ryzen AI MAX+ Lineup With New 12-Core “Max+ 392” & 8-Core “Max+ 388”, Get Full 40 Core RDNA 3.5 GPU For Gaming & Value-Oriented PCs

AMD is expanding its Strix Halo lineup with two new Ryzen AI MAX CPUs, the MAX+ 392 and the MAX+ 388, both with Radeon 8060S GPU.

AMD Makes Ryzen AI MAX+ & It's Top Radeon 8060S GPU Configuration More Accessible With MAX+ 392 12-Core & MAX+ 388 8-Core CPUs

The AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ or Strix Halo lineup features the fastest SoC performance to date and comes in premium laptops. More recently, we have started seeing manufacturers utilize these chips within gaming handhelds and Mini PCs. The result is that even at lower TDPs, the Ryzen AI MAX+ CPUs offer great CPU and GPU performance, putting the standard Strix Point APUs to shame.

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One of the advantages that Strix Halo has over Strix Point is its bigger iGPU, offering up to 40 compute units on the Radeon 8060S. This GPU configuration, however, is limited to the top Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, and that's a really expensive chip. The other two SKUs feature the cut-down Radeon 8050S with 32 CUs, and while that is still twice the CUs as the Radeon 890M, users have been asking for more.

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So now, AMD is introducing two new Ryzen AI MAX+ configurations, the MAX+ 392 and the MAX+ 388. The Ryzen AI MAX+ 392 features 12 cores, 24 threads based on the Zen 5 core architecture, up to 5.0 GHz clock speeds, and 50 NPU TOPs. The Ryzen AI MAX+ 388 features 8 cores, 16 threads based on the Zen 5 core architecture, up to 5.0 GHz clock speeds, and a 50 TOPS NPU.

Unlike the previous 32 CU (Radeon 8050S) SKUs, the MAX+ 392 and MAX+ 388 both get the full 40 CU Radeon 8060S. This means that OEMs can now roll out more cost-effective and mainstream gaming PCs, such as handhelds, that come with the bigger iGPU configuration.

Furthermore, the new Ryzen AI MAX+ CPUs also leverage faster 8533 MT/s LPDDR5X memory, so users can expect better gaming performance out of the box. The platform still supports up to 128 GB of unified memory, up to 60 TFLOPs of FP16 compute, and great AI capabilities powered by the XDNA 2 core.

AMD is also sharing some more performance figures of its Ryzen AI MAX+ lineup, starting with the MAX+ 395 comparison against the NVIDIA DGX Spark. The MAX+ 395 offers an average 70% faster performance in LLMs such as GPT-OSS 20B, GPT-OSS 120B, GLB 4.5 Air, and DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B. What's important is that MAX+ platforms cost way less than NVIDIA's DGX Spark systems.

The MAX+ 395 is also compared to the Apple M5, offering an average 80% faster performance across a range of benchmarks, mainly for content creation. The MAX+ 392 is compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H, offering 54% faster average and up to 90% better performance in applications such as Blender, VRay, and more.

Lastly, AMD showcases the gaming performance where the MAX+ 388 is compared to the Core Ultra 7 255H. The MAX+ offers a 2.5x improvement in Cyberpunk 2077, over 2x improvement in 3DMark tests, and offers leading content creation performance.

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All of this makes the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ SKUs a great choice for content creators, gamers, and now available in even more options, such as Laptops, Mini PCs, and handhelds than before.

AMD Ryzen AI MAX 300 "Strix Halo" APU Lineup:

SKU Name	Architectures	CPU Cores	Max Clock	Cache	GPU Cores	TDP
Ryzen AI Max+ 395	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	16 / 32	5.1 GHz	80 MB	40 CUs (Radeon 8060S)	45-120W
Ryzen AI Max+ 392	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	12 / 24	5.0 GHz	76 MB	40 CUs (Radeon 8060S)	45-120W
Ryzen AI Max 390	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	12 / 24	5.0 GHz	76 MB	32 CUs (Radeon 8050S)	45-120W
Ryzen AI Max 385	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	8 / 16	5.0 GHz	40 MB	32 CUs (Radeon 8050S)	45-120W
Ryzen AI Max+ 388	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	8 / 16	5.0 GHz	40 MB	40 CUs (Radeon 8060S)	45-120W
Ryzen AI Max 380	Zen 5 / RDNA 3.5	6 / 12	4.9 GHz	22 MB	16 CUs (Radeon 8040S)	45-120W

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