AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395

This is the chip that broke the old assumption that integrated graphics can't compete with discrete cards. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395's Radeon 8060S packs 40 compute units, more than five times the 8700G's Radeon 780M, and leans on up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5x memory at 256GB/s bandwidth to feed it, a genuinely different architecture from a typical desktop APU.

AMD's own benchmarks claim 1080p performance in some titles that lands in the same range as an RTX 4070, a claim independent reviewers have found broadly credible for specific well-optimized titles, if not universally across every game. This isn't a chip you drop into a normal desktop, it ships in specific mini-PC and dev-kit style systems (like AMD's own Ryzen AI Halo developer platform) rather than as a standalone boxed CPU, which matters for anyone expecting to buy it the way they'd buy an 8700G. Traditional integrated graphics share system RAM in a way that bottlenecks GPU performance under real load. 128GB of high-bandwidth unified memory at 256GB/s removes that bottleneck almost entirely, which is the actual engineering reason this chip can compete with discrete cards rather than just being a marketing claim, the GPU genuinely isn't memory-starved the way older APUs were.