The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 "Krackan" APU has been spotted at Geekbench. It features 8 cores and is faster than the 8845HS.
The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 is an 8-core/16-thread APU from the Krackan Point family & offers a decent performance uplift
AMD is about to introduce new hardware at CES 2025, including the anticipated Strix Halo, AMD Radeon RX 8000 series, and the budget Krackan Point mobile APU series. We have seen some of the early engineering samples of Krackan Point in recent leaks, but the latest one reveals more specifications and theoretical performance.
An 8-core CPU was benchmarked on Geekbench 6.3, revealing the specs and strength of this Krackan Point APU, which has the OPN code "100-000000713-40_Y". An Acer Swift SFG16-61 laptop was tested in single and multi-threaded operations and resulted in 2677 points in single-core and 11742 points in multi-core tests.
At this point, this shouldn't be surprising or feel amazing as Krackan Point is an affordable Zen 5 lineup with up to 8 cores and 16 threads. This is unlike Strix Point, which goes up to 12 cores and 24 threads and brings powerful specifications like higher clocks, cache, and strong iGPUs. On the contrary, the Krackan Point is made for budget and mainstream laptops and mobile devices for the masses.
This particular CPU is probably the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 as we reported previously, which will bring a combination of 4x Zen 5 and 4x Zen 5c cores. It will feature RDNA 3.5-based graphics and will have a TDP range of 15-45W, similar to the predecessors of the Hawk Point series. Compared to the Zen 4-based Ryzen 7 8845HS, the Ryzen AI 7 350 delivered around 14% higher single-core performance but was on par with it when it came to multicore strength. Nonetheless, the Geekbench scores can be accurate at times, particularly the multi-core ones, and we will need more benchmarks to confirm their ranking.
As previously rumored, the Ryzen AI 7 350 indeed brings 16 MB of L3 cache and a boost clock of over 5GHz. Then there is a 6-core Krackan Point APU AMD is supposedly preparing, featuring a 3x Zen 5 + 3x Zen 5c configuration, which was spotted previously on Geekbench as well. Expect the CPUs to be unveiled at CES along with RDNA 4-based discrete GPUs and the high-performance Strix Halo series.