Dell Introduces 16 Plus Series Laptops Featuring AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPUs

[Nomad76]

Dell 16 Plus laptops with AMD's latest Ryzen AI processors were silently listed on the company website. This thin laptop has an Ice Blue aluminium body (bezel and the palmrest are plastic) giving it a nice look while staying practical at 16.99 mm thick and 1.83 kg. Inside, the Dell 16 Plus runs on AMD's 8-core Ryzen AI 7 350 Processor (50 TOPS NPU, 8 cores, up to 5.0 GHz) helped by 16 GB or 32 GB LPDDR5X 7500 MT/s memory and 1 TB SSD storage. The 16-inch screen has a 16:10 ratio with FHD+ (1920 x 1200) resolution, 300 nits, touch support and ComfortView technology. The backlit keyboard includes a numpad and a Copilot key for those who really need it.

The Dell 16 Plus packs plenty of ports into its thin frame. You'll find two USB-C 3.2 slots that support Power Delivery and DisplayPort, one USB 3.2 Type-A port, HDMI, and audio jack. For wireless, it has the MediaTek MT7925 Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth. A 4-cell 64WHr battery and 65 W Type-C charger keep you powered up all day while the power button doubles as a fingerprint reader. Last but not least, it has a 1080p @ 30 FPS FHD camera with dual-array microphones, and 2x2.5 W stereo speakers with Realtek SounzReal and Dolby Atmos support.



Dell also has another 16 Plus laptop in the same series, this one being powered by AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 (50 TOPS NPU, 6 cores, up to 4.8 GHz), 16 GB LPDDR5X 7500 MT/s memory and 512 GB SSD for storage. All models are available now, with the Dell 16 Plus with Ryzen AI 7 350 and 16 GB memory at $999.99 ($1,199.99 for the 32 GB model) while the Ryzen AI 5 340 model is listed at $849.99.



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[TheinsanegamerN]

I guess Intel's checks stopped clearing.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Good to see AMD getting contracts with the big players

 

[ThomasK]

Intel's dire financial situation probably doesn't allow any major OEM bribing with exclusivity contracts anymore.

 

[bobsled]

I’m getting tired of seeing Dell, HP, and Microsoft ignore AMD products in their professional product stack. Give me an AMD Latitude with 5 years of hardware support and then we’ll see Intel no longer have the power of backroom deals.

 

[rhqq]

Where 395+ tho...

 

[Visible Noise]

I’m getting tired of seeing Dell, HP, and Microsoft ignore AMD products in their professional product stack. Give me an AMD Latitude with 5 years of hardware support and then we’ll see Intel no longer have the power of backroom deals.

Professionals don’t want AMD gear. Companies aren’t going to design products that don’t sell.

 

[SL2]

I’m getting tired of seeing Dell, HP, and Microsoft ignore AMD products in their professional product stack.

HP have many AMD Elitebook/Probook/Zbook laptops models, here's over 200 SKU's from through the years, from cheap to expensive, having anything from Ryzen 2000 to Ryzen 8000 and the Strix point 300 series.
Fewer than intel, probably. Ignored, no. Even a crappy pre-Zen AMD A8-7410 laptop from 2016 is in there, not what I'd call ignoring lol

Also this:

HP EliteBook X G1a "Supports" up to 128 GB LPDDR5X-8533 Memory

At some point this week, HP's North American online store was updated with new high-end EliteBooks that feature AMD Strix Point APUs. Three models appear to support up to 128 GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory—these curious entries were highlighted by tech enthusiast Hoang Anh Phu (AnhPhuH). The...

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Quite weird to put them in the same sentence as Dell who only put AMD in budget laptops.

MS probably don't sell enough to have both brands. They did have both at one point.

 

[ThomasK]

Professionals don’t want AMD gear. Companies aren’t going to design products that don’t sell.

They don't? Are you speaking on behalf of professionals, or only for yourself?

I'd much rather have an Amd offering, than the shitty i5-1155G7 my company issued me.

 

[SL2]

About availability, just listen to what Josh says 1:15:33
(It's not MLID-Tom talking anyway lol)

The other model he's talking about is the Elitebook from my last post, that's the one that is actually available.

...but then you've got the ZFlow which has been unavailable since launch. We can pretend there's two devices available there isn't there's one, the Flow Z13 for 2025 with Stricks Halo has been unavailable. We've got a link to buy it, we've had thousands of people click on that link no one has bought one because it's never been available and our review of it has like 400,000 views, so you know I just think it caught a caught them [AMD] off guard is what I would say...

 

[zenlessyank]

Professionals don’t want AMD gear. Companies aren’t going to design products that don’t sell.

Then they aren't very professional if they are too ignorant to know intel is a ripoff now.

 

[Chaitanya]

I guess Intel's checks stopped clearing.

Those are plastic bodied laptops not the premium models, but still Dell has a lot more AMD options this time around and quite decent options at that so thats a good start.

 

[Marcus L]

Professionals don’t want AMD gear. Companies aren’t going to design products that don’t sell.

Epyc says hi, what a 2015 mindset........ have you seen the server or even consumer CPU market share recently? it's no longer "no one gets fired for buying Intel" buddy, when did you wake out of your coma

 

[ThomasK]

Dell has a lot more AMD options this time around

Does it?

In my country, the only Amd option Dell offers on the consumer side is an entry level Inspiron model, with a 7520U and exclusively soldered 8 Gigs of RAM.

 

[Chaitanya]

Does it?

In my country, the only Amd option Dell offers on the consumer side is an entry level Inspiron model, with a 7520U and exclusively soldered 8 Gigs of RAM.

Atleast in US there seem to be quite a few options based on latest AI series of CPUs - Pro 14, Pro 14 plus 2 in 1, Pro 16, Pro 16 Plus, Pro 13 Plus 2 in 1, 14 Plus, 14 Plus 2 in 1 and 16 Plus(one this PR is about) only ones missing are Premium and Alienware models. Dell India is offering all the Pro models apart from those old Inspirons based on AMD CPUs. Most of those have option for either AI 300 or AI 200 series of CPUs in configurator.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Those are plastic bodied laptops not the premium models, but still Dell has a lot more AMD options this time around and quite decent options at that so thats a good start.

Are they? I thought the plus models were the latitude replacement.

God dells new names suck.

Would that be the same Epyc that Microsoft has stopped buying?

They havent done so, and are still actively adding EPYC based azure capacity. Unless you have a source that brave, google, and bing couldnt find, the only thing that pops up is this:

Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia | Computer Weekly

Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market.

www.computerweekly.com

Which is specifically stopping sales of AMD EPYC services to russia......

Oh look, a PC master race gamer that has no idea how enterprises do business.

Ah yes, Dunning Kruger in action.

 

[Chaitanya]

Are they? I thought the plus models were the latitude replacement.

God dells new names suck.


They havent done so, and are still actively adding EPYC based azure capacity. Unless you have a source that brave, google, and bing couldnt find, the only thing that pops up is this:

Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia | Computer Weekly

Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market.

www.computerweekly.com

Which is specifically stopping sales of AMD EPYC services to russia......

Ah yes, Dunning Kruger in action.

I thought they were Vostro replacements with Aluminium top shell on top of plastic body and the Max series(another one that has 0 AMD based options) was supposed to be Latitude replacement. Dells new naming system is as bad as AMD and Intels model numbers.

 

[dyonoctis]

Those are plastic bodied laptops not the premium models, but still Dell has a lot more AMD options this time around and quite decent options at that so thats a good start.

Dell has been using aluminum on some mid-range laptops for a few years now. My 2019 Inspiron was mostly made of metal. That one is also a mix of metal and plastic

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Professionals don’t want AMD gear. Companies aren’t going to design products that don’t sell.

Dang, I didn't get the memo. I make a living on a computer, and I'd take any Ryzen mobile over the glacial Adler Lake "i7" laptop I have. The only thing it's fast at is making heat and noise.

 

[Chaitanya]

Dell has been using aluminum on some mid-range laptops for a few years now. My 2019 Inspiron was mostly made of metal. That one is also a mix of metal and plastic

Interesting, some of those new Dell laptops have base model that start below $1000 mark and they seem pretty decent for asking price. I am going to request my firm to procure Pro Plus 14 as an upgrade to my ageing work laptop(Dell Vostro).

 

[Simon.J]

Where 395+ tho...

Forget, it’ll never happen anytime soon!
Now ask yourself why only competition of x86 can afford SoC with the following specs:
4 channels of memory,
Unified RAM,
4K displays VRR,
Haptic touchpad,

Cause the so called fake duopoly don’t care, they have only a plan to sell for profit at highest possible price.

 

[EdwardFranciscoVilla]

I am on an Intel Ultra 5 125 H Hewlett Packard Shopping Manufacturer Direct customized fresh new build to own laptop
Am I missing something with going with a similar AMD model ?

I am so IMPRESSED with Arc iGpu and coming from an Xe iGpu of a 1260p Core i 7
This new few month old Meteorlake laptop is ROCKIN and EXTRAORDINARY for my workflow

 

[Sunlight91]

That is somewhat a downgrade from the previous model. It had a Ryzen 8840U (8C/16T) and a 780M. So 12CU iGPU instead of only 8 CU. Basically no software today uses the NPU. It also came with SODIMM memory so you could upgrade RAM.

On Black Friday I got the 16GB model for 599€ and then bought 48GB RAM in February for 100€. Now I can run 32B LLMs on my Laptop which even my Desktop with an RTX 4070 cant handle. Neither AMD nor nvidia have released a 24GB GPU this generation for exactly this use case.
Ok, 32B models are too slow for active use with just 4 tokens/s, but running them in the background is usable.

 

[rhqq]

Forget, it’ll never happen anytime soon!
Now ask yourself why only competition of x86 can afford SoC with the following specs:
4 channels of memory,
Unified RAM,
4K displays VRR,
Haptic touchpad,

Cause the so called fake duopoly don’t care, they have only a plan to sell for profit at highest possible price.

at the same time noname chinese brands are offering ai 395+ based ai boxes with 128gb ram, same with framework. that doesn't make sense. intels bribery, was a fact tho.

 

[Simon.J]

at the same time noname chinese brands are offering ai 395+ based ai boxes with 128gb ram, same with framework. that doesn't make sense. intels bribery, was a fact tho.

With all respect, I know what Chinese can offer based on AMD ryzen 395+
My point is that nor Intel or AMD will never launch an SoC with 4 memory channels with unified memory, AMD did that first time with the release of PS4.
Back to 395+ I bet you will never going to find another vendor such as Asus laptop with given SoC in a limited availability, moreover in somehow AMD here is playing blind by signing up only with ASUS this trash.