"Our big middle cores are better than their army of little cores" AMD's Ben Conrad chats about some of the design decisions behind Ryzen AI APUs and what makes Strix Halo tick

[Redaktion]

AMD announced several new Ryzen AI APUs across Strix Point, Kraken Point, Fire Range HX3D, and Strix Halo product lines at CES 2025. We sat down with AMD's Ben Conrad to discuss these APUs, what went into their design, and what they mean for AMD, OEM partners, and laptop buyers in 2025.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Our-big-middle-cores-are-better-than-their-army-of-little-cores-AMD-s-Ben-Conrad-chats-about-some-of-the-design-decisions-behind-Ryzen-AI-APUs-and-what-makes-Strix-Halo-tick.951459.0.html

[LWT]

I had a good chuckle when described how clear AMD's naming structure is.

[Antony]

Pointless telling us how good their products are if they aren't available to buy. Add to that you need a PhD to decipher their naming convention compared to how it used to be. Maybe you need ai to understand it

[Worgarthe]

100% with LWT and Antony above me. I don't even care at all about AMD anymore, on one side because of their completely and intentionally stupid names, on the other and the more important one - they are literally nowhere available to buy this moment unless in the most expensive laptops (what's the point of the strongest iGPU there if it's paired with a 4080/4090/5080?) or handhelds. Talking about Strix, of course.

[Sentiment]

People are blowing how AMD names products way out of proportion. Yes, it isn't ideal. But even if it was the most perfect naming scheme, would the average person care still? No. Is this the biggest issue AMD has in mobile? No.

5 years and still APU market share for laptops hasn't moved an inch since the first g14 4800h in 2020. That's not because of incompetent naming, that's because they're not even trying to get marketshare. They're not even bothering to flood the market with more supply and availability. They're not even bothering with aggressive pricing.

They can make the naming even more silly for all I care by all means - just fix the other 2 things as well.

[Classified]

So,
1. since there is penalty on bigMEDIUM cores config, does choosing all big cores cpu is better than the big.MIDDLE one? Ryzen 7 8845hs all big cores will be refreshed as ryzen 200, it has 8 big cores, is it faster than ryzen ai 9 365 (4big6MEDIUM)?
2. ryzen ai 9 395 max+ (what a name) has 16 big cores, is that mean that ryzen 8845hs does a half performance of it?