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A few days ago, AMD added two new SKUs to its Strix Halo lineup at CES 2026. One of those was the Ryzen AI Max+ 392, serving as a cut-down version of the top-end AI Max+ 395 but with fewer CPU cores — 12 instead of 16. While the company teased the chips ahead of CES, the first real-world Geekbench listing for the AI Max+ 392 has just surfaced.
Apart from AI, these Ryzen AI Max+ chips are focused on gaming, which is more of a single-threaded task, so it's once again impressive to see the 392 land among the top performers. Once again, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 itself has a recorded score of 2,781 points, so this result in particular is better. As for desktop counterparts, the Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X3D are both within the margin of error as well.
The Geekbench listing also tells us that the score was extracted from an Asus TUF Gaming A14, a device we covered extensively at CES and even awarded "best in show" in the gaming laptops category. This unit, in particular, was rocking 64 GB of on-chip memory running at 8000 MT/s, and boosted up to 5.02 GHz, in line with the listed specs for the chip.
Speaking of, the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 is a 12-core/24-thread CPU with 40 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units (same as the 395). It has 76 MB of L3 cache, a boost clock of 5.0 GHz, along with a rated TDP of 45-120W — Asus caps it at 85W for this machine. Even though the general availability for new Strix Halo machines is Q1 2026, we'll have to wait and see just how much shelf space is populated with these. AMD's other, more mainstream Ryzen AI 400 series was recently listed for a January 22 release in China.
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