Built on the Zen 5 architecture, this is the leanest chip you’ll find in the Zen 5 lineup. Unlike the original Krackan Point series, which targets the mid-range, Krackan Point 2 strips things down for maximum power efficiency.
The Ryzen AI 5 330 comes with just four cores and eight threads in a rather unusual hybrid configuration with one full-fat Zen 5 core paired with three Zen 5c cores. The idea is to save power for lightweight workloads while still giving a single core enough oomph for bursty tasks.
Clock speeds are conservative. The Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores idle at 2 GHz, but the big Zen 5 core can turbo up to 4.5 GHz, while the smaller Zen 5c cores top out at 3.4 GHz. You get 12 MB of combined L2+L3 cache and a configurable TDP between 15 and 28 watts, a far cry from the 54-watt ceiling of the standard Krackan Point chips.
The integrated graphics are equally modest. AMD has slapped on a Radeon 820M iGPU with just two RDNA 3.5 cores running at 2.8 GHz. It is fine for web browsing and video playback, but don’t expect to run Cyberpunk on it. Still, it is faster than the ancient iGPU on the Ryzen 9000 desktop chips, which is at least something.
What’s interesting is that AMD didn’t cheap out on the AI side. The chip carries the same NPU used in higher-end models, capable of pushing up to 50 AI TOPS. That’s enough for Microsoft’s Copilot+ certification and other local AI workloads, even if the CPU and GPU themselves are firmly in the lightweight category.
Benchmark leaks on Geekbench show exactly what you’d expect decent responsiveness for basic tasks but nowhere near the performance of its mid-range siblings. AMD is cleary positioning this for affordable ultraportables, thin clients and maybe even fanless mini PCs that still need some AI acceleration on the cheap.
This move also fills a gap in AMD’s mobile lineup. Intel has been dropping low-power Core Ultra parts into Chromebooks and budget laptops, so AMD needed a counterpunch. While this won’t excite gamers or power users, it might tempt OEMs building slim, AI-ready devices that don’t cost a fortune or guzzle battery.
