AMD Launches Ryzen AI 400 & PRO 400 Desktop Chips

Amid a slew of telecom and commercial client announcements today designed to align with the opening of Mobile World Congress 2026, AMD is using the show as a backdrop to launch the desktop versions of their Ryzen AI 400 chips. First teased back during CES 2026, the company is finally giving them a proper launch at MWC, releasing both the traditional and Pro versions of the chips for the consumer and corporate desktop markets.

Like their Ryzen AI 400 mobile counterparts that were launched back at CES 2026, the Ryzen AI 400 desktop series combines AMD’s latest hardware SoC architectures, building around a base of Zen 5 CPU cores with RDNA 3.5 GPU cores/CUs, and AMD’s XDNA 2 NPU architecture. Notably, this marks the first time that RDNA 3.5 and XDNA 2 have been available in a desktop form factor, as they have previously only been found on AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen AI 400 mobile chips.

Form factor aside, the desktop Ryzen AI 400 chips are essentially identical to AMD’s existing Ryzen AI 400 mobile chips. In regards to AMD’s hardware lineup, they are meant to fill the spot for lower-cost and lower-power chips, slotting in alongside and below AMD’s existing Zen 5 based Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 tier chips. And in practice, these are the successor chips to AMD’s Ryzen 8000G desktop lineup.

Under the hood, all of the new Ryzen AI 400 desktop chips are based on AMD’s latest Gorgon Point silicon. Specifically, AMD is using the cut-down configuration that many of our readers are likely more familiar with as Krackan Point. AMD’s cheaper chip offering, Krackan Point offers up to 4 Zen 5 CPU cores, 4 Zen 5c CPU cores, 8 GPU compute units, and the 50 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU. These new desktop chips use AMD’s tried-and-true AM5 socket, so they can quickly be integrated into existing commercial system designs.

Compared to AMD’s existing Ryzen 9000 (Granite Ridge) processors, the Ryzen AI 400 processors are going to have lower CPU performance due to their use of weaker Zen 5c CPU cores versus the pure Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series, but better GPU performance due to the newer RDNA 3.5 GPU architecture and the larger number of CUs overall. As well, this marks the first desktop offering of a Zen 5 chip with an NPU, which is important for Microsoft’s ongoing Copilot+ local AI inference efforts.

Still, it is notable that unlike the Ryzen 8000G generation, AMD is not bringing any of their higher-end Ryzen AI 400 chips to the desktop market. As a result, we will not be seeing socketed desktop equivalents of the likes of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 475, which features a larger number of CPU cores and twice as many GPU cores as the top desktop Ryzen AI 400 chip.

The trade-off, at least, is that the Ryzen AI 400 desktop series is a fairly low-power offering. The nominal TDP on the regular chips is 65 Watts – matching AMD’s current lower-power Ryzen 9000 SKUs – but AMD is also going to be offering versions of these chips with 35 Watt TDPs. As is traditional for AMD’s naming system, the 35 Watt SKUs will all carry the E suffix – e.g. Ryzen AI 7 450GE.

Altogether, AMD is launching 6 chip SKUs for the Ryzen AI 400 desktop family. This will essentially be an 8 CPU core configuration and two 6-core configurations, with all of those configurations available in both 65 Watt and 35 Watt options. Only the 8 CPU core configurations (450G/450GE) will get an 8 CU integrated GPU; otherwise, the 6-core configurations are all paired with a weaker 4 CU GPU, and the weakest 6-core options will further halve their L3 cache to 8MB.

Finally, alongside the traditional desktop chips that will be sold under the Ryzen AI 400 branding, AMD is also going to be simultaneously launching the PRO versions of their chips for commercial client use – and indeed, it is the PRO chips that are AMD’s primary focus at MWC. As with past generations of PRO chips, these chips enable AMD’s suite of IT management and security technologies, such as AMD Memory Guard and cloud-based recovery.

Wrapping things up, AMD tells us that the first Ryzen AI 400 desktop systems should be available shortly. Apparently, some systems are already shipping now, while the rest of these systems will land in Q2 of this year.