AMD claims the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is 75% faster than Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V in gaming

AMD has published a blog post boasting of incredible gaming performance for its Ryzen AI 300 series processors, with performance that is on average 75% faster than Intel’s equivalent Lunar Lake counterpart.

AMD unveiled several gaming benchmarks at 1080p medium settings, showcasing the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with Radeon 880M significantly outperforming Intel’s competing Core Ultra 7 258V with Arc 140V graphics. Games selected for the comparison included Ghost of Tsushima, Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2 Stay Human, Baldur’s Gate 3, Spider-Man Remastered, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Hogwarts Legacy, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Borderlands 3, Doom Eternal, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Forza Horizon 5, Hitman 3, Far Cry 6, and F1 24.

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On average, AMD touts a 75% performance lead for its Radeon 880M powered Zen 5 mobile chip. For example, in Black Ops 6, the HX 370 generated an average frame rate of 99; the 258V, by contrast, held an equivalent frame rate of just 48.

AMD is taking advantage of all its software performance boosters to yield these impressive gains, though. AMD is taking advantage of both FSR 3 upscaling as well as FSR 3 frame generation, and in games that don’t support FSR 3; AFMF 2 driver-based frame generation is applied as a substitute. Hyper-RX was also enabled for games that support it. For the Intel counterparts, AMD is using Intel’s competing XeSS solution for comparison — but it’s important to note that XeSS doesn’t have any type of frame generation functionality to date, which inevitably skews the results in favor of AMD.

However, AMD also showcased the native performance of both processors without any upscale or frame generation enabled. In this software environment, the AMD Radeon 880M-equipped CPU was pushing virtually identical frame rates, on average, compared to the Arc 140V-equipped Intel counterpart. In fact, in a few games, the Core Ultra 7 258V outperformed…