Built for professional-grade devices, these processors excel at AI workloads and graphically-intensive tasks.

To reiterate, these new processors are intended for the professional market.

AMD 8000-series CPUs were the first x86 processors with dedicated neural processing units (NPUs).

Illustration of an AMD Ryzen PRO 8000 processor.

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That’s especially useful in laptops or other mobile devices that run on a battery.

Yes, it’s tailored for graphically intensive work.

Note that AMD’s use of NPUs isn’t totally unique.

Intel’s new consumer-grade x86 processors contain neural cores, as do NVIDIA’s latest GPUs.