AMD has typically pushed the envelope in performance, but at CES 2025, the company is also expanding in another direction, with cheaper, lower-performance Ryzen AI 300 and even a Ryzen 200 family that the company is encouraging both consumers and commercial customers to buy.

In June, AMD launched the Ryzen AI 300 family, which combined 50 TOPS of AI power with a ton of conventional performance in our Ryzen AI 300 review, including in gaming performance as well. In October, it extended the Ryzen AI 300 to business customers, too.

However, AMD built out its high-end Ryzen AI 300 series first, with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (12 cores/24 threads) and the Ryzen AI 9 365 (10 cores/20 threads). Today, it does the opposite, with the launch of four new Ryzen AI 300 series chips — two each for consumers and business customers — as well as seven new Ryzen 200 chips to provide slower, less expensive alternatives.

As the name suggests, the Ryzen AI 300 series is built for AI, with 50 TOPS of NPU AI power, enough for Copilot+ status. AMD’s earlier Ryzen AI 300 processors include Zen 5 CPU cores as well as Radeon 3.5 graphics, which AMD at the time identified as the Radon 890M and Radeon 880M. An AMD representative confirmed that these new processors include Zen 5 and Radeon 3.5 graphics as well, though AMD isn’t spelling out any of the details at the launch

Meanwhile, the Ryzen 200 series appears to combine some of AMD’s older CPU architectures, leaving the “high-end” Ryzen 200 chips with just 16 peak NPU TOPS. These Zen 4 cores include integrated graphics, too, specifically RDNA 3 that AMD debuted in 2022.

AMD’s new Ryzen AI 300 CPUs offer slightly slower clock speeds and a lower core count, but offer the long (24 hours or so) battery life that AMD’s other Ryzen AI 300 chips offer.

• AMD Ryzen AI 7 350: 8 cores/16 threads, 5.0 GHz (turbo), 24MB cache, 50 peak TOPS, 15-54W cTDP
• AMD Ryzen AI 5 340: 6 cores/12 threads, 4.8 GHz (turbo), 22MB cache, 50 peak TOPS, 15-54W cTDP

AMD will offer Ryzen Pro versions of both of these chips for corporate customers. The consumer versions will ship in the first quarter of 2025, AMD said, while the Pro versions will be available to customers in the second quarter.

“These new models allow us to make our leading Ryzen AI 300 series processors available to many more users, and bring AMD next gen AI experiences to everyone,” Rahul Tikoo, the senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s client computing business said in a recorded briefing for reporters. Tikoo previously led the client product group at Dell as general manager.

AMD’s Ryzen 200 series also offers commercial options for the Ryzen 250, 230, 220, and 210. Otherwise these chips offer lower core counts and lower thread counts, with what AMD calls “great price points for the mainstream.” AMD does not typically release prices for mobile chips, however.

Here are AMD’s new Ryzen 200 processors:

• AMD Ryzen 9 270: 8 cores/16 threads, 5.2 GHz turbo, 24MB cache; 16 peak TOPS, 35-54W cTDP
• AMD Ryzen 9 260: 8 cores/16 threads, 5.1 GHz turbo, 24MB cache; 16 peak TOPS, 35-54W cTDP
• AMD Ryzen 7 250: 8 cores/16 threads, 5.1 GHz turbo, 24MB cache; 16 peak TOPS, 15-30W cTDP
• AMD Ryzen 5 240: 6 cores/12 threads, 5.0 GHz turbo, 22MB cache; 16 peak TOPS, 35-54W cTDP
• AMD Ryzen 5 230: 6 cores/12 threads, 4.9 GHz turbo, 22MB cache; 16 peak TOPS, 15-30W cTDP
• AMD Ryzen 5 220: 6 cores/12 threads, 4.9 GHz turbo, 22MB cache; N/A TOPS, 15-30W cTDP
• AMD Ryzen 3 210: 4 cores/8 threads, 4.7 GHz turbo, 12MB cache; N/A TOPS, 15-30W cTDP

Author: Mark Hachman, Senior Editor, PCWorld