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AMD benchmarks Gorgon Halo chips against Nvidia's RTX Spark

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AMD has released benchmarks for its new Gorgon Halo chips, positioning them as competitors to Nvidia's upcoming RTX Spark devices. The company claims its Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 offers a significant performance advantage over Intel's Core Ultra X9 388H in generative AI tasks, with throughput gains ranging up to 32.2x in some tests. AMD also highlighted its Gorgon Halo platform's ability to support up to 192GB of memory, exceeding the 128GB limit of RTX Spark, which allows for running larger AI models locally. AI

IMPACT AMD's benchmark release aims to influence the market perception of agentic PCs ahead of Nvidia's launch, highlighting memory capacity advantages.

RANK_REASON AMD released benchmarks for its new Gorgon Halo chips to preemptively compete with Nvidia's upcoming RTX Spark launch. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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AMD benchmarks Gorgon Halo chips against Nvidia's RTX Spark

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Jake Roach ·

    AMD attempts to get ahead of expected RTX Spark launch with Gorgon Halo benchmarks

    AMD is getting ahead of an expected RTX Spark launch later this week with a few benchmarks for its flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495.

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