AMD launches Ryzen AI 400 Series chips for mobile and desktop, offering up to 12 cores at 5.2GHz

AMD has announced its Ryzen AI processor portfolio at the Mobile World Congress 2026, including the Ryzen AI 400 Series and Ryzen AI Pro 400 Series for AM5 desktops, plus the Ryzen AI Pro 400 for mobile business notebooks and workstations. This new lineup targets OEMs wanting to offer AI-infused Copilot-ready PCs capable of running local LLMs in addition to the usual professional workloads.

To open the show, we have AMD’s new desktop Ryzen AI 400 Series, built for scalable performance to suit different professional workloads. Combining Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, plus a dedicated XDNA 2 NPU providing up to 50 TOPS of AI compute, the series offers an efficient platform for AI-assisted office tasks, primed for tackling everyday multitasking and collaborative work. In effect, they are the existing Ryzen AI 300 Series, albeit with higher frequencies.

The desktop Ryzen AI 400 lineup is split into two segments: the regular G family and the professional Pro stack. Each contains six models, offering six or eight CPU cores with hyperthreading alongside four or eight GPU cores. Both the regular G and Pro series are subdivided into two categories, based on power, giving you the choice between efficient 35W ‘GE’ chips and standard 65W ‘G’ models. While the power budget will determine the overall performance each CPU can deliver when fully loaded, all 35W are rated for the same boost clocks as their 65W counterparts. To get a detailed look at this segmentation, check the table below.

Next, we have the Ryzen AI Pro 400 Series for mobile workstations, built for sustained productivity and all-day battery life. These chips aim to bring desktop performance into the mobile form factor while maintaining strong power efficiency, delivering a reliable AI-capable platform for professionals, AMD says. Unlike their desktop counterparts, these chips feature more CPU and GPU cores, as well as a faster NPU, making them solid candidates for enterprise notebooks.

Like previous professional solutions from AMD, the Ryzen Pro 400 Series will feature validated support for independent software vendors (ISVs), ensuring a fast, efficient, and stable platform, with improved support and optimisation. There’s also enterprise-grade security, manageability, and reliability. The 400 series is said to be especially designed to accelerate professional applications that can take advantage of all its compute resources, i.e. CPU, GPU, and NPU.

Overall, the Ryzen AI 400 Series offers up to 12 Zen 5 cores and 24 threads, boosting up to 5.2GHz, while sharing up to 36MB of cache. The graphics portion carries up to 16 RDNA 3.5 compute units, which is double what is available on the desktop variants.

AMD claims that the high-end Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 delivers up to 30% faster multithreaded performance and 50% faster 3D rendering compared to Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H Panther Lake CPU. The company also emphasises the value of its built-in NPU, allowing users to run their AI assistants locally for improved privacy and data security. The full list of mobile Ryzen AI 400 can be found below.

AM5 desktop systems powered by Ryzen AI 400 Series processors are expected to be available in Q2 2026 from OEMs such as HP and Lenovo. Around the same time frame, mobile workstations powered by Ryzen AI Pro 400 Series are expected to be available from Dell, HP, and Lenovo.