The presentation of this new range of APUs for laptops will take place at the event that AMD will hold at CES 2025, where NVIDIA will also present the series RTX50. However, and as usual, we already know what the performance that one of these models will offer will be.
In the last few hours, a new benchmark in Geekbench of the Acer Swift SFG16-61, an engineering sample with the code 100-000000713-40_Y which, according to Videocardz, corresponds to one of the new APU Krackan Point that AMD plans to present in the coming weeks, specifically the Ryzen AI 7 350 model.
AMD surpassing, once again, Intel
This performance test confirms what had been rumored and has 8 cores (4 Zen 5 cores + 4 Zen 5c cores) and a total of 16 threads. In addition, we can also see in the test results, it has a 16 MB L3 cache and the maximum clock speed goes up to 5,045 MHz.
The performance test published on Geekbench has been carried out with the aforementioned Acer equipment managed by Windows 11 Pro and 16 GB of RAM. In the single-core test, it scored 2,677 points while the multicore test reached the 11,742 points.
As expected, the score obtained is higher than its equivalent from the previous generation, Ryzen 7 8845HS. But, in addition, it also offers superior performance with the current Intel equivalent on the market, with Core Ultra 7 258V which obtained a score of 2,672 in the test a single core and 10,766 in the multicore test.
Regarding the graphics and NPU that AMD will include in this model, at the moment it is unknown. You will most likely use implement a XDNA 2 NPUs which offers a minimum of 50 TOPS while the graph will be a Radeon 860M.
At this same event, Intel is also expected to present the rest of the Core Ultra 200 H and all the news that is presented.
Intel has a lot to improve
For now, the probably forced departure of Pat Gelsinger as CEO of Intel should be a turning point in the company’s policy in recent years.
There are many analysts and experts who affirm that a large part of the debacle that Intel has suffered is due to betting on competing with TSMC through Intel Foundrya project that has failed to attract the interest of chip manufacturers.
What I should have done from the beginning was to bet on chips. Artificial intelligence just like NVIDIA did at the time and which has made it one of the most valuable companies in the world. With the AI train at another station, we will see how Intel is able to get back afloat.