AMD’s upcoming Ryzen AI Max+ 392 shows strong early…

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A few days ago, AMD added two new SKUs to its Strix Halo lineup at CES 2026. One of those was the Ryzen AI Max+ 392, serving as a cut-down version of the top-end AI Max+ 395 but with fewer CPU cores — 12 instead of 16. While the company teased the chips ahead of CES, the first real-world Geekbench listing for the AI Max+ 392 has just surfaced.

Ryzen AI Max+ 392 first Geekbench listing — (Image credit: Future)

Apart from AI, these Ryzen AI Max+ chips are focused on gaming, which is more of a single-threaded task, so it's once again impressive to see the 392 land among the top performers. Once again, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 itself has a recorded score of 2,781 points, so this result in particular is better. As for desktop counterparts, the Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X3D are both within the margin of error as well.

The Geekbench listing also tells us that the score was extracted from an Asus TUF Gaming A14, a device we covered extensively at CES and even awarded "best in show" in the gaming laptops category. This unit, in particular, was rocking 64 GB of on-chip memory running at 8000 MT/s, and boosted up to 5.02 GHz, in line with the listed specs for the chip.

Speaking of, the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 is a 12-core/24-thread CPU with 40 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units (same as the 395). It has 76 MB of L3 cache, a boost clock of 5.0 GHz, along with a rated TDP of 45-120W — Asus caps it at 85W for this machine. Even though the general availability for new Strix Halo machines is Q1 2026, we'll have to wait and see just how much shelf space is populated with these. AMD's other, more mainstream Ryzen AI 400 series was recently listed for a January 22 release in China.

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ezst036

Hopefully AMD makes some of these in a low power socketed configuration.

AM5? AM4?
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-Fran-

ezst036 said:
Hopefully AMD makes some of these in a low power socketed configuration.

AM5? AM4?
They can't for cheap.

Strix Halo is a "Quad" Channel config (256 bit connection) with LPDDR5X, so they'd need to rework the I/O die to make it work with a dual channel 128bit config in AM5 or AM4.

Plus, the whole point of Halo is to have the monster bandwidth for the 40CU iGPU. You lose that, you miss the point of it.

Regards.
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Gururu

I'm getting so confused with so many upgrades, refreshes, iterations. Hopefully the hierarchy keeps them in line. Price links not working on many BTW.
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Notton

ezst036 said:
Hopefully AMD makes some of these in a low power socketed configuration.

AM5? AM4?
Yeah, they call that a Threadripper, minus the iGPU
Threadripper Pro 7945WX for octa channel DDR5
Threadripper 7960X for quad channel DDR5.

If you want Strix Halo in a desktop configuration, Framework has you covered. They don't have the 392+, but do have the 395+.
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Hotrod2go

I'm really interested in these next gen APU's for AM5, been really thinking about overhauling my entire gaming rig lately. Getting sick of the high power consumption & mega case fans needed just to run high end settings in games @ 3440x1440p stable for hrs on end. This problem is exacerbated by a lack of quality (in my opinion) games on the market these days, most if not all of them are just regurgitations of old stuff from the 2000s.
It's funny when I see posts not here so much but on other enthusiasts forums with RX 5090 owners complaining they spent a bundle of money on their GPU & a certain game they are playing barely gives anymore fps than a card from 2-3 yrs ago or more. When games are not optimized for new hardware, especially high stuff like 5090, what is the point of even buying such a card - sure, there is driver updates & such but how long do these owners have to wait?

I think as I get older, I'm going to be contented with 1080p gaming on a high end APU from now on....:D
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