With less than one month left to CES 2025, leaked benchmarks have started to surface starring AMD's flagship Strix Halo APUs. The Ryzen AI MAX+ Pro 395 - now that's a mouthful - has emerged on Geekbench packing 16 CPU cores, 64GB of RAM, and a massive 40 CU (Compute Units) Radeon RX 8600S iGPU (Integrated GPU). Despite the apparent low score - set to improve with further optimizations - the real juicy details lie in the specifications.
For the uninitiated, Strix Halo or the Ryzen AI MAX 300 APUs are said to be AMD's top-of-the-line offering for workstations and laptops next year. The test bench utilizes the "AMD MAPLE-STXH" reference board, designed for the FP11 socket. Likewise, Ryzen AI MAX+ Pro 395—which we'll call Ryzen AI 395 for simplicity's sake—is paired with 64GB of RAM, going as high as 128GB per shipping manifests. The performance isn't anything to write home about at this stage, with the Vulkan score on par with an RTX 2060 resulting from early silicon.
