Ryzen vs. Meteor Lake: AMD's AI Often Wins, Even On Intel's Hand-Picked Tests

Velcroman1 writes: Intel's new generation of 'Meteor Lake' mobile CPUs herald a new age of 'AI PCs,' computers that can handle inference workloads such as generating images or transcribing audio without an Internet connection. Officially named 'Intel Core Ultra' processors, the chips are the first to feature an NPU (neural processing unit) that's purpose-built to handle AI tasks. But there are few ways to actually test this feature at present: software will need to be rewritten to specifically direct operations at the NPU.
Intel has steered testers toward its Open Visual Inference and Neural Network Optimization (OpenVINO) AI toolkit. With those benchmarks, Tom's Hardware tested the new Intel chips against AMD -- and surprisingly, AMD chips often came out on top, even on these hand-selected benchmarks. Clearly, optimization will take some time!

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