As the release of the less expensive Strix Halo APU draws closer, an 8-Core AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 385 benchmark appears.

AMD appears to be preparing to launch the more reasonably priced Ryzen AI Max APUs, which have demonstrated the ability to power remarkably high-end gaming experiences, onto the market. The AMD Ryzen AI Max 385, the new Strix Halo APU, is achieving some excellent results in the initial set of benchmarks that have been posted on Geekbench. The timing makes sense because AMD first stated that the Strix Halo lineup would be released between Q1 and Q2 2025.

The iGPU, which was lowered from the Radeon 8060S to the 8050S, is one of the main differences between the Ryzen AI Max 395 and the 385. In contrast to the 16-core CPU and 40-core iGPU configuration, AMD announced that the AI Max Pro 385 will use an eight-core CPU and 32 graphics cores when it introduced the Strix Halo lineup. With 2,489 points in the single-core benchmark and 14,136 points in the multicore benchmark, the APU’s CPU scores are outstanding on their own, even though we don’t yet have GPU benchmark results for the 8050S. The HP ZBook Ultra G1a with 32 GB of RAM was the laptop used to test the new Ryzen chip. According to the results, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 outperforms the 385 by up to 45% in a comparable HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop, while the 385 only behind the AI Max+ 395 by a little margin in some configurations. Although the exact price of laptops with this new Ryzen AI Max Pro 385 APU is unknown, they will most likely be less expensive than the current generation of Ryzen AI Max+ laptops, which often cost well over $2,000.