AMD just won the AI arms race

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Everyone's talking about NPUs and AI, but AMD just took the lead at a very important time.

This story is part of our coverage of Computex, the world's biggest computing conference. TOPS — also known as trillions of operations per second.

Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming Check your inbox! Privacy Policy The battle over TOPS begins Microsoft’s push into on-device has meant a rapid increase in the performance of NPUs. The new hardware was first introduced in Intel’s Meteor Lake chips, which could handle just 10 TOPS. The acronym is quickly becoming the go-to way to measure the AI horsepower of a system, standing for trillions of operations per second.

For me, the star of the lineup of the first Ryzen AI laptops is the Asus ProArt P16. While devices like the new Surface Laptop 13 are a solid alternative to the M3 MacBook Air, they’re not meant to compete with the MacBook Pro. But that’s exactly what the ProArt P16 looks to do. Despite having the new Ryzen AI 9 HX chips and up to an RTX 4070, the device is just 0.59 inches thick. You read that right — the ProArt P16 is considerably thinner than the 16-inch MacBook Pro.

Of course, I’m not expecting the ProArt P16 to get the kind of battery life the MacBook Pro or the Qualcomm laptops achieve. That kind of efficiency is hard to replicate without switching to Arm, especially in a laptop this powerful. The lack of a discrete GPU in the MacBook Pro M3 Max also helps it achieve its incredible battery life. Until Qualcomm can scale up its integrated graphics in the same way Apple has, these discrete Nvidia GPUs will remain the best way to go.

 

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