In addition to updated Ryzen AI 300 series processors and the new Ryzen AI 400 series unveiled at CES 2026, the company brings a new desktop chip for gamers.

AMD’s Ryzen CPU announcements this year fall firmly into the latter camp—these are all gently tweaked variants of chips that launched in 2024 and 2025.

Most chips you’ll see in laptops will max out with the Ryzen AI 7 450, an 8-core CPU with a 5.1GHz clock speed and 24MB cache with only a 50 TOPS NPU. Overall, it’s a subdued update to one of AMD’s most prevalent CPUs.

At CES 2026, the big maker of mobile chips teased details—and some benchmarks—for its new mainstream Snapdragon processor family for laptops, the Snapdragon X2 Plus. Here's how it shapes up versus a field of machines we tested in our own labs.

The HP Eliteboard G1a packs an AMD chip into a keyboard with either an attached or detachable USB-C cable.

AMD also is updating its workstation-level Ryzen AI Max+ mobile processors with two new models: the 12-core Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and the eight-core Ryzen AI Max+ 388. They’re notable for a system-on-chip designs that employs a bank of shared memory that can be allocated ad-hoc between the main system memory and graphics.

Qualcomm said Monday that its forthcoming Snapdragon X2 Plus processors for Windows 11 PCs will bring major performance boosts over the previous generation, pitching the chips for “modern professionals” who want a “fast,