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| System Name | RBMK-1000 |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5700G |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite V2 |
| Cooling | DeepCool Gammax L240 V2 |
| Memory | 2x 16GB DDR4-3200 |
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| Case | Corsair Carbide 100R |
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| Power Supply | Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W |
| Mouse | ASUS ROG Strix Impact |
| Keyboard | Gamdias Hermes E2 |
| Software | Windows 11 Pro |
AMD yesterday released the Ryzen AI 5 330 mainstream notebook processor capable of Copilot+. The company's pre-launch materials for the chip weren't clear on what silicon the processor is based on, and what its exact CPU core configuration is, besides vaguely mentioning 4 cores and its top boost specs. The company today put up detailed specs of the chip, and it turns out that the Ryzen AI 5 330 is based on a physically smaller monolithic chip dubbed "Krackan Point 2." AMD builds this chip on the TSMC N4P node.
A successor to "Phoenix 2," Krackan Point 2, as configured on the Ryzen AI 5 330, comes with a single heterogenous CCX that has four cores, one of these is a regular "Zen 5," and the other three "Zen 5c" cores. The four cores each have 1 MB of L2 cache, and share 8 MB of L3 cache. All four cores come with a base frequency of 2.00 GHz, but while the lone "Zen 5" core boosts up to 4.50 GHz, the three "Zen 5c" cores only boost up to 3.40 GHz. All four cores come with SMT, and share a common ISA, so threads can migrate among them seamlessly without encountering runtime errors. A software-based power management solution uses UEFI CPPC2-based "preferred core" flagging to ensure priority to the "Zen 5" core. The chip comes with a default TDP of 28 W, although OEMs can configure this between 15 W and 28 W.
Elsewhere in the chip is a tiny iGPU based on the RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture, which only has one WGP (workgroup processor), or 2 compute units (128 stream processors). On the Ryzen AI 5 330, this comes with an engine clock boost of 2.80 GHz. The display- and media acceleration engines are carried over from "Strix Point."
The star attraction with this chip is the NPU, and AMD has given this chip a full-sized Ryzen AI XDNA 2 NPU carried over from "Strix Point," with a throughput of 50 TOPS, making this processor eligible for Microsoft Copilot+ local acceleration logo. This is what makes things exciting for OEMs, as they can now bring Copilot+ to mainstream notebooks priced well below the $500-mark, perhaps even below $400.
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A successor to "Phoenix 2," Krackan Point 2, as configured on the Ryzen AI 5 330, comes with a single heterogenous CCX that has four cores, one of these is a regular "Zen 5," and the other three "Zen 5c" cores. The four cores each have 1 MB of L2 cache, and share 8 MB of L3 cache. All four cores come with a base frequency of 2.00 GHz, but while the lone "Zen 5" core boosts up to 4.50 GHz, the three "Zen 5c" cores only boost up to 3.40 GHz. All four cores come with SMT, and share a common ISA, so threads can migrate among them seamlessly without encountering runtime errors. A software-based power management solution uses UEFI CPPC2-based "preferred core" flagging to ensure priority to the "Zen 5" core. The chip comes with a default TDP of 28 W, although OEMs can configure this between 15 W and 28 W.
Elsewhere in the chip is a tiny iGPU based on the RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture, which only has one WGP (workgroup processor), or 2 compute units (128 stream processors). On the Ryzen AI 5 330, this comes with an engine clock boost of 2.80 GHz. The display- and media acceleration engines are carried over from "Strix Point."
The star attraction with this chip is the NPU, and AMD has given this chip a full-sized Ryzen AI XDNA 2 NPU carried over from "Strix Point," with a throughput of 50 TOPS, making this processor eligible for Microsoft Copilot+ local acceleration logo. This is what makes things exciting for OEMs, as they can now bring Copilot+ to mainstream notebooks priced well below the $500-mark, perhaps even below $400.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
