The Ryzen AI 5 330 is a quad-core chip that drops into the entry-level slot, priced beneath its bigger siblings while still ticking the boxes for Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs.

“The new AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 processor is designed to offer incredible everyday compute experiences in mainstream and affordable Copilot+ PCs,” a statement by AMD reads.

“With 50 NPU TOPS, notebooks powered by AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 exceed Microsoft's requirements for Copilot+ PCs, offering true next-gen AI experiences built for Windows 11.”

According to Tom's Hardware, despite trimming down the general-purpose cores, AMD has kept the 50 TOPS NPU intact, meaning it won’t leave AI workloads gasping for breath. The chip hums along at 2.0 GHz, stretching to 4.50 GHz when prodded, and carries an integrated AMD Radeon 820M GPU with 128 stream processors spread across two clusters.

As with the rest of the Ryzen AI 300 gang, it comes with a dual-channel DDR5 memory controller. The big difference is the power envelope, with a configurable TDP between 15W and 28W, giving laptop makers a bit of wiggle room on thermals and battery life.

AMD isn’t saying how many Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores are under the hood, nor is it admitting whether this silicon is Strix Point or Krackan Point. That nugget of info will probably appear when it finally lists the SKU on its site.