AMD’s next wave of AI-ready laptop chips is starting to take shape, and the latest leaks give us the clearest picture yet of the Gorgon Point family. 
Fresh CrossMark entries have revealed two key SKUs – the Ryzen AI 9 465 and Ryzen AI 7 450 – sitting just below the already-leaked Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 at the top of the upcoming Ryzen AI 400 stack.
Internally, Gorgon Point is essentially a refreshed Zen 5-based Strix Point design, but packaged and branded as AMD’s new AI-first platform for 2026 notebooks. According to the CrossMark database and earlier engineering sample reports, AMD is preparing a total of seven Ryzen AI 400 SKUs, ranging from high-end HX parts down to Ryzen AI 3 with mainstream 6-core configurations. In other words, this isn’t a one-off halo chip: it’s a full mobile lineup aimed squarely at Intel’s next-gen Panther Lake laptops and the growing wave of AI PC marketing.
The headline chip in today’s leak is the Ryzen AI 9 465. It replaces the Ryzen AI 9 365 and keeps the same 10-core/20-thread configuration, pairing performance-focused Zen 5 cores with denser Zen 5c efficiency cores in a hybrid layout. That combination should give OEMs a familiar power envelope while leaving room for higher sustained clocks, better single-threaded responsiveness, and higher AI throughput once final silicon ships.
The second leak, the Ryzen AI 7 450, targets the upper-midrange. This SKU is the spiritual successor to the previous Ryzen AI 7 from the Kraken Point generation and lands with 8 cores and 16 threads. The CrossMark entry shows a 2.0 GHz base clock, which lines up with what we have seen across Strix Point and Kraken Point engineering samples. However, earlier reports suggest that boost clocks are where AMD intends to push harder this time, especially in heavier AI and content creation workloads.
Rumors point to the Ryzen AI 9 465 sticking to a familiar 5.0 GHz max boost, while the Ryzen AI 7 450 may climb past the 5.2 GHz barrier under favorable thermal conditions. There is also at least one Ryzen AI 7 400 variant in the stack, expected to top out at 5.0 GHz, creating a clear separation between the “450” and “400” tiers. The CrossMark listing does not expose which Ryzen AI 7 400 flavor it has encountered, so for now clock behavior remains educated guesswork rather than confirmed specification, but the tiering already hints at how OEMs will segment slim-and-light and performance-focused designs.
On the cache and graphics side, don’t expect radical changes. Current information points to the Ryzen AI 9 465 and Ryzen AI 7 450 reusing the same combined L2+L3 cache sizes as their predecessors. The integrated graphics story also appears familiar: Radeon 880M at the high end and Radeon 860M further down the stack, both built on AMD’s RDNA 3.5 architecture. That will disappoint some enthusiasts who were hoping for a bigger generational leap, especially in the handheld and thin-and-light gaming space, where every extra efficiency gain can translate into noticeably smoother 1080p gaming and more stable frame times.
This is where the community is already split. Some users are jokingly calling these “Panther Lake killers” and praising AMD for avoiding power-connector drama and 12VHPWR horror stories that have haunted certain discrete GPUs. Others are less forgiving, arguing that as long as AMD sticks with what they see as “RDNA 3.x leftovers” in the iGPU, these APUs will remain underused in gaming-capable handheld PCs unless they get features like next-gen FSR support, stronger driver focus from day one, and better attention to low-power performance.
There is also a broader strategic debate brewing around architecture cadence. A vocal slice of the community believes AMD is ready to leave the entire RDNA 1–4 family behind and pivot hard to its next graphics architecture in the desktop space, treating RDNA 3.5 iGPUs in Gorgon Point as a stopgap for OEMs that mainly care about battery life and media engines rather than raw frame rates. Others counter that for mainstream laptops and office-first AI PCs, a mature, power-efficient iGPU is exactly what you want, and chasing headline gaming performance on an APU misses the point when most users will spend their time in browsers, productivity apps, and light creative tools.
Beyond the graphics discussion, the AI angle is central. Each Ryzen AI 400 chip carries AMD’s updated NPU blocks alongside the Zen 5 CPU clusters, allowing Microsoft’s next Windows AI features and on-device inference workloads to run without hammering the GPU or CPU. Paired with the hybrid Zen 5 and Zen 5c layout, Gorgon Point is clearly tuned to juggle background AI tasks, everyday browsing, and bursty creative work in a way that should feel snappier than older all-big-core designs.
For now, what CrossMark really confirms is naming, positioning, and core configurations. We have at least three chips visible in leaks – Ryzen AI 9 HX 470, Ryzen AI 9 465, and Ryzen AI 7 450 – with four more expected to round out the stack: another Ryzen AI 7 400 model, two Ryzen AI 5 400 SKUs, and a Ryzen AI 3 400 part likely starting at 6 cores and 12 threads. Combined with AMD’s dedicated NPU blocks and the Zen 5 CPU core upgrade, Gorgon Point is clearly being positioned as the backbone for early-2026 Windows AI laptops across ultrabooks, creator machines, and compact gaming systems.
As always with pre-launch leaks, all of this comes with the usual caveats: engineering samples can change, base clocks may shift, and OEM-specific power limits can make or break real-world performance. Battery tuning, cooling design, and memory configuration will matter just as much as raw silicon capabilities. But taken together, the CrossMark and SiSoftware sightings make one thing clear: AMD’s answer to the next wave of AI PCs is almost ready, and the Gorgon Point Ryzen AI 400 family is shaping up to be a full-stack refresh rather than a simple spec bump on a single flagship chip. The only real unknowns now are final pricing, OEM designs, and how aggressively AMD and its partners push the AI PC narrative once notebooks finally hit store shelves.
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and here we go again 😂 every month a new leak and i still can’t buy a laptop with normal pricing lol
ngl these look kinda like Panther Lake killers on paper, but we all know OEMs will slap 28W limits and call it a day 🤡