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News AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 outperforms Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V in LLM performance — Team Red provided benchmarks show a strong lead of up to 27% in LM...

They are so proud of running their top end "AI" CPU against Intel's mid-range "AI" CPU, all while using an app that doesn't use any of the "AI" features on the CPU and runs purely on the CPU cores. Nice.
 
Curretly at Best Buy there is no HX 375 laptop, but the HX 370 laptops look to be around $1900 while the 258V looks to be around $1200, If AMD is touting 27% better performance of the HX 375 vs the 258V while the system costs a good 50% more (not exactly apples to apples, but a general idea of what someone would find at a given time at a given store), that's a terrible deal. Maybe TH should add some sort of standardized AI measurement to their tests instead of just Geekbench and Cinebench until there is such a thing as "NPU Mark" or "NPU Bench".

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/asus-zenbook-s14-review-lunar-lake-ultra-7-258v

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/ultrabooks-ultraportables/hp-omnibook-ultra-review
 
there's only a handful of these out in the wild. in the laptops you can buy them they have either paired the models with the most powerful igpu with an Nvidia dgpu rendering it useless. or kneecapping it's performance with a combination of poor cooling (thin and light for the lose) or low tdp limits.

why does amd even bother launching products? it's like they don't even care if they're successful or not. they apparently just like spending the money on rnd and fabs and then letting Intel and now qualcomm limp in and take the pot.