AMD has coughed up proper details on its teased desktop Ryzen AI 400 processors, previously known as “Gorgon Point”, and the range is as slim as its retail ambitions.
The chips share the same Zen 5 CPU cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics as the Ryzen AI 400 mobile line, with AMD prioritising power efficiency over peak bragging rights.
There are two flavours, one with a PRO badge for enterprise and one without, yet neither will be sold as boxed retail parts. AMD is keeping the whole lot OEM-only for now, which will thrill system builders and irritate anyone waiting to drop a cheap APU into an AM5 board.
The desktop stack comes in three processors spread across six SKUs, because each one gets a 65W and a 35W option. AMD marks the 35W variants with an “E” suffix, so the Ryzen AI 7 450GE is the more diet-friendly version of the Ryzen AI 7 450G.
At the top sits the Ryzen AI 7 450G with eight Zen 5 cores and 16 threads, a 2GHz base and up to 5.1GHz boost, plus 24MB of cache. Graphics come from Radeon 860M with eight RDNA 3.5 compute units, which sounds decent until you remember this is meant to be the desktop rung.
Below that are the Ryzen AI 5 440G and Ryzen AI 5 435G, each with six cores and 12 threads at a 2GHz base, paired with Radeon 840M graphics with four RDNA 3.5 compute units. The 440G boosts up to 4.8GHz with 22MB cache, while the 435G tops out at 4.5GHz with 14MB cache.
The big differentiator versus AMD’s other consumer desktop chips is the 50 TOPS NPU, which gets these parts Microsoft Copilot+ certification. AMD says the silicon, including CPU, GPU and NPU, matches the mobile Ryzen AI 400 lineup, with the desktop 450 being the mobile 450 in a different power envelope, and they still slot into the AM5 socket.
AMD is only shipping the bottom end of its Gorgon Point lineup on desktops at the moment, while mobile is climbing up to parts like the Ryzen AI 9 HX 475 with a 60 TOPS NPU, Radeon 890M graphics with 16 RDNA 3.5 compute units and 12 cores boosting to 5.2GHz. There are no performance claims yet for the desktop chips.
The OEM-only choice is being blamed on Copilot+ requirements that go beyond an NPU, particularly the need for at least 16GB of system memory, something AMD cannot police if it sells boxed chips. AMD says commercial designs featuring these processors should start appearing in Q2 2026.
