[CES 2026] AMD Announces Ryzen AI 400 Series, New Ryzen AI Max+ SKUs & Ryzen 7 9850X3D Processors

The tech world officially kicks off year 2026 with the commencement of CES 2026 at Las Vegas, and we get the usual announcements from major chipmakers with new products to reveal. For AMD’s part, the new products are mostly minor updates, with the introduction of Ryzen AI 400 series APUs, additional Ryzen AI Max+ 300 series SKUs, and the Ryzen 7 9850X3D gaming CPU – all of which are still Zen 5-based models.

AMD Ryzen AI 400 Series

First announced is the new Ryzen AI 400 series of laptop APUs (as well as PRO variants), with limited changes. To sum it up, the updates (highlighted in gold) are all in clock speeds – the CPU, GPU, NPU, and RAM all gets a minor speed boost, reaching up to 5.2GHz, 3.1GHz, 60 TOPS, and 8533 MT/s respectively; other than that, it’s pretty much the same hardware as you’ll find in Ryzen AI 300 series equivalents. In other words, the resulting improvement in performance over their predecessors is small enough that AMD ended up not comparing them in its first-party benchmarks.

New AMD Ryzen AI Max+ SKUs

Next up, AMD is adding two new SKUs under its existing Ryzen AI Max series APUs with the addition of Max+ 392 and Max+ 388. Both SKUs focus on maximum GPU firepower while cutting down on CPU cores, presumably to save cost; as such, the Max+ 392 is down to 12 cores, and the Max+ 388 gets only half the core count over the flagship Max+ 395 model.

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

As seen in leaks and retail slip-ups, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D is exactly what it looks like: the fastest gaming CPU on the planet. This new model has exactly one difference from the 9800X3D, which is 400MHz (or 7.7%) faster boost clock. Same 3D V-Cache, same TDP, same core count, and the result is – through some napkin math based on indirect figures shown through first-party benchmarks – about 2.4% faster on average at 1080p High settings. Similarly, productivity workloads show minor gains in performance, with those preferring single-threaded work being the bigger beneficiaries.

Some Other New Stuffs

Besides the hardware, AMD also brought two additional software announcements: ROCm 7.2 is now available for Ryzen and Radeon hardware, with the entire Ryzen AI 400 series now part of the support list; meanwhile, FSR Redstone, which was formally announced last month, is now available to all RX 9000 series GPUs. Note that individual support for its four features (Radiance Caching, Ray Regeneration, Upscaling, Frame Generation) will vary between game to game, though AMD at least claimed the Redstone lineup now involves more than 200 games.

Pokdepinion: Nothing major this time, which is expected.