ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Gaming Laptop, Featuring AMD Strix Halo “Ryzen AI MAX+ 395” APU Listed & Benchmarked, iGPU Faster Than RX 7700S

ASUS’s upcoming ROG Flow Z13 gaming laptop, which features AMD’s top Strix Halo “Ryzen AI MAX+ 395” APU, has been listed & benchmarked.

AMD’s Strix Halo “Ryzen AI Max+ 395” scores a solid 20,000+ points in Geekbench multi-core test, and features Radeon 8060S integrated graphics

The upcoming AMD Strix Halo CPUs have appeared a couple of times in Geekbench and this can get confusing if you think this is the same CPU we reported about a week ago. This isn’t the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395, but it’s the non-PRO edition “Ryzen AI Max+ 395” that has similar specifications except for the core clocks.

The AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 “Strix Halo” APU was a part of the upcoming ROG Flow Z13 gaming laptop, model: GZ302EA, and was benchmarked on Geekbench 6.3. It delivered 2894 points in single-core and 20708 points in multi-core tests, which easily outperformed the flagship Zen 4-based AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX. The latter roughly delivers the same single-core performance but multi-core performance has been improved drastically on the Strix Halo CPU, which is roughly 25-30% better than 7945HX.

As the standard Strix Point “Ryzen AI 300” APUs don’t have any 16-core CPU, it wouldn’t be fair to compare the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 to any of those. Still, if we compare the processor against the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in single-core performance, we get a similar score on Geekbench, which is expected since both use the same Zen 5 architecture. This is due to the clock speeds being very similar to the single-core boost.

The more interesting stuff will be the iGPU performance of the Strix Point APUs since the Radeon 8060S will bring 40 Compute Units. This is a drastic uplift over the existing APU lines.

Nonetheless, the Geekbench page has revealed the specifications of the processor, including the 16-core/32-thread core configuration, 3.0 GHz of base frequency, and a nearly 4.0 GHz boost clock. The processor will boast dual CCDs with 32 MB of L3 cache on each.

The iGPU manages to end up faster than the RX 7700S, which is a 32 compute unit chip based on the RDNA 3 architecture. The mobility chip does feature more power, so it has an advantage there, but the 40 CUs on the Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 still end up faster, which is quite awesome to see for an integrated solution.

The upcoming ASUS ROG Flow Z13 GZ302EA laptop will be a convertible laptop with a detachable keyboard like the existing ones and will boast a 13.4″ screen size with a 2560x1600p resolution. As listed on two different retail websites (ALGO and KOMP, both are Russian retailers), it will feature 32 GB of RAM, 1TB SSD storage, and Windows 11.

Both pages have revealed the laptop’s full specifications, including hardware, connectivity, weight and dimensions, etc. However, the price and release date haven’t been disclosed. Since Strix Halo will launch in the early part of 2025, we expect the laptop to be released around the same time frame.

AMD Ryzen AI MAX 300 “Strix Halo” APU Lineup:

News Source: @BenchLeaks