{"id":1279385,"date":"2026-03-19T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eZaQR9yVEgwbGhWd6MW7uL"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:22:53","slug":"my-new-laptop-chip-has-an-ai-processor-in-it-and-its-a-complete-waste-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/my-new-laptop-chip-has-an-ai-processor-in-it-and-its-a-complete-waste-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"My new laptop chip has an &#8216;AI&#8217; processor in it, and it&#8217;s a complete waste of space"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to open this gripe with some positivity, which is why I&#8217;m going to admit there is one thing I really respect and appreciate about AI: it&#8217;s hateable for <em>so many reasons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I can hate that it&#8217;s destroying journalism. I can hate that it&#8217;s making internet search less accurate and less helpful with every passing day. I can hate that it&#8217;s making insufferable people unfathomably rich. I can hate that the dumbest X.com posters conflate typing an &#8220;idea&#8221; into a plagiarism crane game that clumsily plucks from petabytes of pilfered art with the process of actual human creativity.<\/p>\n<p>And I can hate that even something as fun and pure as getting a new computer\u2014surely a bright and beautiful day for any reader of PC Gamer\u2014is now tarnishable by AI poking its head in where it doesn&#8217;t belong.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly a decade with my last laptop I was desperate for a new system, but I spent most of 2024 first holding out for AMD to announce its latest Zen 5 chips, and then for Framework, the modular PC company, to release a new motherboard using said chips. I knew AMD&#8217;s new chips would be bringing with them improved power efficiency and better graphics that I really wanted in a thin-and-light laptop. You can probably envision the stank face I made last summer when I found out AMD was <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/322804\/amd-is-changing-the-naming-of-the-strix-point-apus-series-again\">rebranding the Ryzen chips Ryzen AI<\/a> to capitalize on the buzziest tech trend of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>I wish Ryzen AI was just annoying branding, though! It&#8217;s worse than that. The AI does actually mean something: that the APU (aka the entire chip comprised of a CPU, GPU, cache, memory controller, and other bits) now includes a new type of processor: an NPU, or &#8220;neural processing unit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AMD says <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/gaming-pcs\/just-in-case-youve-forgotten-all-about-them-amd-posts-a-less-than-convincing-argument-as-to-why-ai-pcs-are-better-than-any-other-type-of-pc\/\">you definitely want an AI PC, dawg<\/a>, though &#8220;why&#8221; seems to conveniently be an unanswered question at this time. Intel says <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/the-future-of-the-pc-according-to-intel-is-a-cpu-gpu-npu-trifecta-and-that-definitely-includes-gaming\/\">NPUs are definitely here to stay<\/a>. And they&#8217;re probably right! But so far, a few months into owning my new laptop, it&#8217;s nothing but a waste of space.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at AMD&#8217;s Ryzen AI &#8220;Strix Point&#8221; processors, as annotated by a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nemez.net\/die\/\">GPUsAreMagic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:4096px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:64.58%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"WfJgbMS6PxDuQXDMERqosH\" name=\"strix point annotated\" alt=\"AMD Strix Point annotated\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/my-new-laptop-chip-has-an-ai-processor-in-it-and-its-a-complete-waste-of-space.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"4096\" height=\"2645\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: AMD, GPUsAreMagic)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the left side of the chip you can see the Zen 5 CPU cores and the lower power Zen 5C &#8220;efficiency&#8221; cores, as well as their cache. Around the center of the chip you&#8217;ve got the graphics processing. And in the top right is the NPU and its memory.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not taking up a crazy amount of space. But as I look at the labels on this APU, I can see the value of every element in something I do with my laptop, from the USB controllers to the media engine that encodes and decodes video to the display engine that lets me output video over a USB-C port. Everything has a role to play! A modern APU is a beautiful symphony of cooperation and collaboration where everyone pitches in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"looped-video\"><video class=\"lazyload-in-view lazyloading\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/529F7vnrwLjDgXcbJjPZRS\/starship-imdoingmypart.mp4\" autoplay loop muted playsinline src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/529F7vnrwLjDgXcbJjPZRS\/starship-imdoingmypart.mp4\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Except the NPU. The NPU ain&#8217;t doing shit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m running Linux on my <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/gaming-laptops\/framework-13-amd-ai-300-series-review\/\">Framework 13<\/a>, so I couldn&#8217;t take advantage of Microsoft&#8217;s Copilot features <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/windows\/microsoft-recall-finally-launches-for-ai-pc-users-along-with-some-other-new-features-almost-one-year-after-copilot-was-announced\/\">like the much-maligned Recall<\/a> even if I wanted to. And I&#8217;m not running language learning models on my laptop or using AI to write code (or articles) for me. Given all that, I sure wish that 10-ish percent of my processor could&#8217;ve been devoted to, I dunno, another CPU or GPU core? Or some more cache? <em>Anything<\/em> that would have an actual, tangible benefit?<\/p>\n<p>But hey, I&#8217;m no computer architect, and I know better than to pretend chip design is as simple as &#8220;put more of X where Y is.&#8221; So I asked PC Gamer&#8217;s resident silicon whisperer Nick Evanson for his take.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the space could be used for more GPU cores, the chip&#8217;s heavily limited by memory bandwidth. We&#8217;ve seen this in comparisons between the Ryzen Z2 Extreme and Z1 Extreme, where the former has a lot more compute units than the latter, but it&#8217;s barely any faster in games,&#8221; Nick says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Gripes Week<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"6FoR3VyC3t6LPTHNHpugaK\" name=\"gripes week crop\" caption=\"\" alt=\"Gripes Week collage\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/my-new-laptop-chip-has-an-ai-processor-in-it-and-its-a-complete-waste-of-space.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\">We&#8217;re spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing in 2025. Hit up the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/gripes-week-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gripes Week hub<\/a> for more of what&#8217;s grinding our gears.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But! There is a but:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That said, a complete rejig of the layout could perhaps allow for more CPU and GPU cache, which would help with performance\u2026 Cache layout is tricky to do right in such a compact design. It has to be right next to cores and\/or memory controllers, and given how large the CPU section already is, there probably isn&#8217;t enough space to have more L3 cache without completely borking the whole layout. But I agree with the fact that it is wasted die space. The NPU in my Arrow Lake CPU has been unused since I first got it and it&#8217;ll probably remain that way until it gets replaced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, it would be unrealistic to suggest AMD could rip out the NPU and easily put that space to good use in this current chip. But that doesn&#8217;t make me any less grumpy about the NPU being there in the first place! If I were AMD, I would have simply decided several years ago not to devote a significant portion of my processor die to this component I personally have no use for.<\/p>\n<p>Until an NPU can do the same work as the tensor cores in GPUs used for DLSS\/FSR, I doubt I&#8217;ll ever have a real use for one. Too bad Microsoft, AMD, and Intel have decided I have to have one anyway.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/my-new-laptop-chip-has-an-ai-processor-in-it-and-its-a-complete-waste-of-space\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to open this gripe with some positivity, which is why I&#8217;m going to admit there is one thing I really respect and appreciate about AI: it&#8217;s hateable for so many reasons. I can hate that it&#8217;s destroying journalism. I can hate that it&#8217;s making internet search less accurate and less helpful with every passing day. I can hate that it&#8217;s making insufferable people unfathomably rich. I can hate that the dumbest X.com posters conflate typing an &#8220;idea&#8221; into a plagiarism crane game that clumsily plucks from petabytes of pilfered art with the process of actual human creativity. And I can hate that even something as fun and pure as getting a new computer\u2014surely a bright and beautiful day for any reader of PC&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/my-new-laptop-chip-has-an-ai-processor-in-it-and-its-a-complete-waste-of-space\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1279386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-1279385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My new laptop chip has an &#039;AI&#039; processor in it, and it&#039;s a complete waste of space | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve decided to open this gripe with some positivity, which is why I&#039;m going to admit there is one thing I really respect and appreciate about AI: it&#039;s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/my-new-laptop-chip-has-an-ai-processor-in-it-and-its-a-complete-waste-of-space\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My new laptop chip has an &#039;AI&#039; 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