{ "title": "Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Evidence: 8 LLM/VLM Additions, One RTF Claim, Zero Robot Benchmarks", "rciNumber": "RCI 033", "version": "0.1.0", "schemaVersion": 1, "released": "2026-08-10", "canonical": "https://robotcomponentindex.com/research/ryzen-ai-1-8-release-evidence-audit/", "scope": "Release-identity, distribution-surface and disclosure audit of AMD Ryzen AI Software v1.8.0. RCI resolved the official GitHub release, lightweight tag, verified target commit, recursive source tree, current AMD release notes, Windows and Linux installation pages and fixed-tag root license; downloaded both GitHub-generated source archives; compared their path sets; inspected Git LFS pointer boundaries, example test and benchmark source, public GitHub checks and documented installer names; and separated AMD software-support and performance statements from robot-computer or robot-system validation. RCI did not accept an AMD download EULA, download the Windows installer, NuGet package, Linux package, NPU drivers or Git LFS objects, install or execute the software, access a Ryzen AI device, or run a robot workload.", "sources": { "releaseUrl": "https://github.com/amd/RyzenAI-SW/releases/tag/v1.8.0", "releaseApiUrl": "https://api.github.com/repos/amd/RyzenAI-SW/releases/tags/v1.8.0", "repositoryUrl": "https://github.com/amd/RyzenAI-SW", "releaseNotesUrl": "https://ryzenai.docs.amd.com/en/latest/relnotes.html", "windowsInstallUrl": "https://ryzenai.docs.amd.com/en/latest/inst.html", "linuxInstallUrl": "https://ryzenai.docs.amd.com/en/latest/linux.html", "tag": "v1.8.0", "tagType": "lightweight", "commitSha": "73c04572fd7b40cef95b7b5a81018c8ba3769f67", "treeSha": "352f5a21acdd683c29691a523e448dc7d8892d79", "publishedAt": "2026-07-23T04:37:16Z", "licenseName": "MIT License", "licenseUrl": "https://github.com/amd/RyzenAI-SW/blob/v1.8.0/LICENSE.txt", "verifiedDate": "2026-08-10" }, "independentAudit": { "method": "RCI used the official GitHub release/API, tag ref, commit and recursive tree APIs plus the current AMD Ryzen AI 1.8 documentation and fixed-tag repository files. RCI downloaded the GitHub-generated tar.gz and ZIP, computed audit-date SHA-256 identifiers, compared normalized path sets, inspected the root MIT file, README scope statement and Git LFS rules, counted fixed-tree files by explicit path heuristics, summed the eight LFS pointer size declarations, inspected public check runs and looked for documented benchmark-result output names. RCI did not execute repository code or download EULA-gated runtime distributions, drivers, models or LFS objects. Counts describe public release surfaces, not successful tests, application performance or robot suitability.", "githubReleaseAssetCount": 0, "githubGeneratedArchiveCount": 2, "githubGeneratedArchiveEntryCountEach": 669, "githubGeneratedArchivePathSetsIdentical": true, "sourceTreeEntryCount": 669, "sourceTreeBlobCount": 560, "sourceTreeDirectoryCount": 109, "sourceTreeDeclaredBlobBytes": 45632034, "lightweightTag": true, "targetCommitSignatureVerifiedByGitHub": true, "repositoryDeclaredSubsetOfFullRelease": true, "lfsPatternBlobCount": 8, "lfsPointerBytesInGitTree": 1057, "lfsReferencedPayloadBytes": 404905134, "testRelatedPathCount": 25, "benchmarkNamedScriptPathCount": 3, "resultLikePathCount": 76, "logFileCount": 69, "nonEmptyLogFileCount": 53, "documentedBenchmarkJsonOutputCountInTree": 0, "publicCheckRunCount": 1, "publicNamedBuildOrTestCheckRunCount": 0, "documentedRuntimeDistributionNameCount": 3, "runtimeDistributionsDownloadedAndHashedByRci": 0, "gitLfsObjectsDownloadedByRci": 0, "softwareTestsExecutedByRci": false, "physicalRyzenAiDeviceTestPerformedByRci": false, "robotWorkloadTestPerformedByRci": false, "upstreamArtifactsRedistributedByRci": false }, "distributionSurfaces": [ { "name": "GitHub-generated source tar.gz for v1.8.0", "role": "generated repository snapshot", "bytes": 41269858, "archiveEntryCount": 669, "publisherSha256Available": false, "rciSha256": "11b7d8d135cf1aa3c09f107d180fae65005ad133dd2e00e9830cf236ea74fa9c", "rciDownloaded": true, "accessBoundary": "Public GitHub-generated archive; includes eight Git LFS pointer files, not their referenced payloads." }, { "name": "GitHub-generated source ZIP for v1.8.0", "role": "generated repository snapshot", "bytes": 41580998, "archiveEntryCount": 669, "publisherSha256Available": false, "rciSha256": "f780d65da32b4f4b990b9dd817ca7cf2bc114962103cd141cf451020d562e868", "rciDownloaded": true, "accessBoundary": "Public GitHub-generated archive; normalized path set matches the tar.gz, but GitHub publishes no digest for either generated download." }, { "name": "ryzen-ai-1.8.0.exe", "role": "Windows Ryzen AI Software installer", "bytes": null, "archiveEntryCount": null, "publisherSha256Available": false, "rciSha256": null, "rciDownloaded": false, "accessBoundary": "Named by AMD documentation behind an AMD account/EULA download form; RCI did not accept terms or fetch the file." }, { "name": "ryzen_ai_nuget_1.8.0.zip", "role": "Windows NuGet distribution", "bytes": null, "archiveEntryCount": null, "publisherSha256Available": false, "rciSha256": null, "rciDownloaded": false, "accessBoundary": "Named by AMD documentation behind an AMD account/EULA download form; no file byte count or publisher digest appears beside the audited documentation link." }, { "name": "ryzen_ai-1.8.0.tgz", "role": "Linux Ryzen AI Software package", "bytes": null, "archiveEntryCount": null, "publisherSha256Available": false, "rciSha256": null, "rciDownloaded": false, "accessBoundary": "Named by AMD Linux documentation behind an AMD account/EULA download form; RCI did not accept terms or fetch the file." } ], "releasePageClaims": [ { "claim": "Eight new LLM/VLM additions", "evidenceRole": "issuer software-support statement", "rciBoundary": "Names eight models; it does not publish exact model-file hashes, host configurations, pass logs or robot-task results." }, { "claim": "Two TTS models, one embedding model and one translation model", "evidenceRole": "issuer software-support statement", "rciBoundary": "Support naming is not accuracy, latency, memory, power or production-readiness evidence." }, { "claim": "Eleven Stable Diffusion model/application entries and dynamic-resolution labels", "evidenceRole": "issuer software-support statement", "rciBoundary": "The 5x and 20x labels count resolution variants; they are not speed multipliers or quality scores." }, { "claim": "Performance optimizations with -O1 for SD3.x", "evidenceRole": "issuer qualitative performance statement", "rciBoundary": "No exact host, driver, model artifact, workload, before/after value, repetitions or uncertainty accompanies the statement." }, { "claim": "Support running large models on low-memory machine", "evidenceRole": "issuer qualitative capability statement", "rciBoundary": "The release note gives no memory threshold, exact model, operating system, execution mode or observed failure boundary." }, { "claim": "Three-second Whisper audio RTF reduced to 13.9% and 33.7%", "evidenceRole": "issuer numerical performance statement", "rciBoundary": "The release note names Whisper small and large-v3-turbo but no processor SKU, driver, build, audio sample, timing protocol, baseline, runs or uncertainty." }, { "claim": "Full Fusion exclusions, a Windows-only TPS model and no Linux model generation", "evidenceRole": "issuer known-issue statement", "rciBoundary": "These restrictions remain attached to any support summary; Windows-generated model compatibility with Linux is issuer-reported." }, { "claim": "Additional BF16 compiler option for openai-whisper-medium-encoder", "evidenceRole": "issuer configuration requirement", "rciBoundary": "The workaround identifies a configuration dependency, not a successful build or accuracy/performance result." } ], "observations": [ { "id": "RCI033-O01", "field": "release_identity", "value": "AMD Ryzen AI Software v1.8.0", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "GitHub release; AMD Ryzen AI 1.8 release notes", "evidenceRole": "issuer release metadata", "rciBoundary": "Identifies a software release, not a processor SKU, robot computer or deployed robot stack." }, { "id": "RCI033-O02", "field": "release_state_and_date", "value": "non-draft; non-prerelease; published 2026-07-23T04:37:16Z", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "GitHub release API", "evidenceRole": "issuer release metadata", "rciBoundary": "GitHub release state does not establish long-term support, safety qualification or robot production readiness." }, { "id": "RCI033-O03", "field": "tag_and_commit_identity", "value": "lightweight v1.8.0 ref → verified commit 73c04572fd7b", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "GitHub ref and commit APIs", "evidenceRole": "RCI-resolved version identity", "rciBoundary": "There is no separate annotated tag object; GitHub reports the target commit signature valid." }, { "id": "RCI033-O04", "field": "github_release_assets", "value": "0 separately uploaded assets; 2 GitHub-generated source downloads", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "GitHub release API and UI", "evidenceRole": "issuer distribution metadata", "rciBoundary": "The UI's two generated archives are not AMD-uploaded installers, drivers, model bundles or validation results." }, { "id": "RCI033-O05", "field": "generated_archive_integrity", "value": "tar.gz 41,269,858 bytes; ZIP 41,580,998 bytes; 669 normalized paths each; path sets identical", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "RCI download, SHA-256 and archive-list comparison", "evidenceRole": "RCI-derived package-structure result", "rciBoundary": "GitHub publishes no digest for the generated archives; RCI hashes identify audit-date bytes only and do not verify software behavior." }, { "id": "RCI033-O06", "field": "repository_scope", "value": "README calls the repository a subset of the Ryzen AI Software release", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "v1.8.0 README.md", "evidenceRole": "issuer scope statement", "rciBoundary": "The GitHub tree cannot be treated as the complete Windows/Linux runtime distribution." }, { "id": "RCI033-O07", "field": "git_lfs_boundary", "value": "8 pointer blobs; 1,057 pointer bytes; 404,905,134 referenced payload bytes", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "v1.8.0 .gitattributes, recursive tree and RCI pointer inspection", "evidenceRole": "RCI-derived source-distribution boundary", "rciBoundary": "Generated archives carry pointers, not the eight referenced model payloads; RCI did not pull or hash those LFS objects." }, { "id": "RCI033-O08", "field": "root_source_license", "value": "MIT License; Copyright 2023 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "v1.8.0 LICENSE.txt", "evidenceRole": "file-level source license", "rciBoundary": "The root MIT text does not automatically license EULA distributions, drivers, third-party models, datasets, dependencies or trademarks." }, { "id": "RCI033-O09", "field": "supported_processor_families", "value": "Phoenix; Hawk Point; Strix; Strix Halo; Krackan Point across Ryzen 200, 7000/PRO, 8000/PRO and Ryzen AI 300/PRO/Max 300 series", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "AMD Ryzen AI 1.8 release notes", "evidenceRole": "issuer family-level compatibility statement", "rciBoundary": "Family support is not a frozen list of exact purchasable order codes, boards, firmware or validated robot computers." }, { "id": "RCI033-O10", "field": "model_type_compatibility", "value": "PHX/HPT: CNN INT8; STX/KRK: CNN INT8, CNN BF16, NLP BF16 and LLM (OGA)", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "AMD Ryzen AI 1.8 model compatibility table", "evidenceRole": "issuer class-level compatibility matrix", "rciBoundary": "A model-type checkmark does not establish support for every model artifact, shape, operator, driver or application." }, { "id": "RCI033-O11", "field": "windows_install_boundary", "value": "Windows 11 build >=22621.3527; Visual Studio 2022; CMake >=3.26; Miniforge preferred; NPU driver >=32.0.203.280", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "AMD Windows installation page", "evidenceRole": "issuer installation prerequisites", "rciBoundary": "Prerequisites are deployment metadata, not evidence that an exact Windows robot computer passed a workload." }, { "id": "RCI033-O12", "field": "linux_install_boundary", "value": "STX and KRK; Python 3.12.x; named Ubuntu 24.04 XRT packages; LLM NPU-only flow", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "AMD Linux installation page", "evidenceRole": "issuer platform and package statement", "rciBoundary": "The page does not provide a frozen pass matrix across exact kernels, boards, drivers, models and robot workloads." }, { "id": "RCI033-O13", "field": "runtime_distribution_names", "value": "ryzen-ai-1.8.0.exe; ryzen_ai_nuget_1.8.0.zip; ryzen_ai-1.8.0.tgz", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "AMD Windows and Linux installation pages", "evidenceRole": "issuer distribution-link metadata", "rciBoundary": "The files are EULA-form downloads outside GitHub; RCI did not accept terms, download them or obtain publisher bytes/digests from the cited pages." }, { "id": "RCI033-O14", "field": "new_llm_vlm_support", "value": "8 named LLM/VLM additions", "unit": "models", "sourceLocation": "GitHub release and AMD release notes", "evidenceRole": "issuer model-support statement", "rciBoundary": "No exact model-file digests, configuration manifest or run logs accompany the list." }, { "id": "RCI033-O15", "field": "adjacent_model_support", "value": "2 TTS; 1 embedding; 1 translation model", "unit": "named additions", "sourceLocation": "GitHub release and AMD release notes", "evidenceRole": "issuer model-support statement", "rciBoundary": "Support naming is not accuracy, latency, memory, power or stability evidence." }, { "id": "RCI033-O16", "field": "stable_diffusion_surface", "value": "11 named model/application entries; one 5x and seven 20x dynamic-resolution labels; -O1 and low-memory capability statements", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "GitHub release and AMD release notes", "evidenceRole": "issuer feature and qualitative-performance statements", "rciBoundary": "Dynamic-resolution counts are not speed multipliers; -O1 and low-memory statements lack a numerical protocol in the release notes." }, { "id": "RCI033-O17", "field": "whisper_rtf_claim", "value": "3-second audio RTF reduced to 13.9% for Whisper small and 33.7% for Whisper large-v3-turbo", "unit": "RTF percentage", "sourceLocation": "GitHub release and AMD release notes", "evidenceRole": "issuer numerical performance statement", "rciBoundary": "No processor SKU, driver, build, audio identity, baseline value, warm-up, repetitions, timing scope or uncertainty is disclosed." }, { "id": "RCI033-O18", "field": "known_issue_matrix", "value": "4 Full Fusion models unsupported; 1 TPS model Windows-only; Linux model generation unsupported; 1 BF16 model needs an extra compiler option", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "GitHub release and AMD release notes", "evidenceRole": "issuer known-issue and configuration statements", "rciBoundary": "The restrictions must remain attached to compatibility summaries and are not evidence of passes outside the named cases." }, { "id": "RCI033-O19", "field": "public_test_and_benchmark_source", "value": "25 test-related paths; 3 benchmark-named scripts; 76 result-like paths; 0 documented benchmark JSON output files fixed in tree", "unit": null, "sourceLocation": "RCI heuristic over fixed recursive tree and README-described output names", "evidenceRole": "RCI-derived source inspectability result", "rciBoundary": "The counts mix input fixtures, examples, logs, images and scripts; they are not passed tests or a v1.8.0 release benchmark result set." }, { "id": "RCI033-O20", "field": "public_github_check_surface", "value": "1 successful update-pip-graph check; 0 publicly named build/test checks", "unit": "check runs", "sourceLocation": "GitHub check-runs API at commit 73c04572fd7b", "evidenceRole": "public repository automation metadata", "rciBoundary": "This describes only GitHub's public check surface; RCI does not infer that AMD ran no private or external validation." } ], "disclosureAudit": [ { "id": "RCI033-D01", "field": "versioned_release_and_date", "status": "disclosed", "publicEvidence": "GitHub and AMD documentation identify Ryzen AI Software 1.8 and the release API fixes v1.8.0 publication time.", "reproductionImpact": "The software release can be cited and time-bounded." }, { "id": "RCI033-D02", "field": "tag_and_commit_identity", "status": "disclosed-and-github-verified", "publicEvidence": "The lightweight v1.8.0 ref resolves to commit 73c04572fd7b; GitHub reports the commit signature valid.", "reproductionImpact": "The repository snapshot is fixed while tag type and commit verification remain distinct." }, { "id": "RCI033-D03", "field": "publisher_uploaded_github_assets", "status": "none", "publicEvidence": "The GitHub release API exposes zero separately uploaded assets; the UI supplies two generated source downloads.", "reproductionImpact": "No AMD-uploaded installer, driver, model or result bundle is available at the GitHub release level." }, { "id": "RCI033-D04", "field": "github_generated_archive_digests", "status": "rci-hash-only", "publicEvidence": "RCI computed SHA-256 for both generated archives; GitHub publishes no digest for them.", "reproductionImpact": "The hashes identify audit-date bytes but cannot be called publisher digest matches." }, { "id": "RCI033-D05", "field": "runtime_distribution_identifiers", "status": "disclosed-metadata-only", "publicEvidence": "AMD documentation names the Windows EXE, NuGet ZIP and Linux TGZ and links them through AMD account/EULA forms.", "reproductionImpact": "Users can identify intended package names, but the public GitHub release does not contain those runtime distributions." }, { "id": "RCI033-D06", "field": "runtime_distribution_bytes_and_digests", "status": "not-disclosed-on-audited-pages", "publicEvidence": "No file byte count or publisher SHA-256 appears beside the three audited documentation download entries; RCI did not accept EULA terms or fetch the files.", "reproductionImpact": "Package identity and integrity cannot be independently matched from the audited public pages." }, { "id": "RCI033-D07", "field": "repository_completeness", "status": "partial-explicit-subset", "publicEvidence": "The fixed README explicitly calls the repository a subset of the Ryzen AI Software release.", "reproductionImpact": "Repository inspection cannot stand in for auditing the complete installed runtime." }, { "id": "RCI033-D08", "field": "git_lfs_payload_availability_in_archives", "status": "pointer-only", "publicEvidence": "Eight fixed-tree blobs are Git LFS pointers totaling 1,057 bytes and declaring 404,905,134 bytes of referenced payloads.", "reproductionImpact": "The generated archives do not carry the eight model payloads needed for a complete source-example checkout." }, { "id": "RCI033-D09", "field": "root_source_license", "status": "disclosed", "publicEvidence": "The v1.8.0 root LICENSE.txt contains the MIT License.", "reproductionImpact": "The repository root source license is clear." }, { "id": "RCI033-D10", "field": "binary_model_driver_and_third_party_rights", "status": "item-specific", "publicEvidence": "Runtime distributions use AMD EULA forms, while the repository references third-party models, datasets, dependencies and Git LFS content.", "reproductionImpact": "A blanket MIT statement would erase material item-level rights boundaries." }, { "id": "RCI033-D11", "field": "supported_processor_families", "status": "disclosed-family-level", "publicEvidence": "AMD names five processor codenames and four Ryzen series groupings.", "reproductionImpact": "High-level hardware scope is visible." }, { "id": "RCI033-D12", "field": "exact_processor_board_and_robot_matrix", "status": "not-frozen-in-release", "publicEvidence": "The release notes point to AMD's living processor filter but do not attach a fixed order-code, board, firmware and robot-computer matrix to v1.8.0.", "reproductionImpact": "The release cannot identify an exact Avnet/Weston platform or prove support for every purchasable Ryzen AI system." }, { "id": "RCI033-D13", "field": "operating_system_driver_and_dependency_matrix", "status": "partial", "publicEvidence": "Windows and Linux pages name prerequisites, driver versions and Linux package names, but no complete exact-host outcome matrix is attached.", "reproductionImpact": "Installation instructions do not establish tested deployability across all exact configurations." }, { "id": "RCI033-D14", "field": "model_type_hardware_matrix", "status": "disclosed-class-level", "publicEvidence": "AMD maps CNN INT8/BF16, NLP BF16 and LLM OGA classes across PHX/HPT and STX/KRK.", "reproductionImpact": "The table supports class-level triage but not individual model compatibility conclusions." }, { "id": "RCI033-D15", "field": "exact_supported_model_artifacts_and_hashes", "status": "not-released-with-notes", "publicEvidence": "The release names models but attaches no complete model URLs, hashes, quantization configs, shapes and pass logs.", "reproductionImpact": "Another lab cannot reconstruct the exact tested model set from the release note alone." }, { "id": "RCI033-D16", "field": "general_performance_test_protocol", "status": "not-disclosed", "publicEvidence": "The -O1 and low-memory statements have no fixed host, driver, model, workload, baseline, repetitions or uncertainty.", "reproductionImpact": "The qualitative claims cannot support a cross-platform speed or memory ranking." }, { "id": "RCI033-D17", "field": "whisper_rtf_reproducibility", "status": "not-disclosed", "publicEvidence": "The release reports two 3-second-audio RTF percentages but no processor SKU, audio identity, timing boundary, baseline, run count or raw output.", "reproductionImpact": "The only numerical performance claim cannot be independently reproduced from the release surfaces." }, { "id": "RCI033-D18", "field": "public_benchmark_source_and_fixed_outputs", "status": "source-disclosed-results-not-fixed", "publicEvidence": "The repository includes benchmark scripts, example logs and result images; documented benchmark JSON output names are absent from the fixed tree.", "reproductionImpact": "Runnable examples improve inspectability but do not prove a v1.8.0 release pass or a specific benchmark result." }, { "id": "RCI033-D19", "field": "public_ci_execution_results", "status": "dependency-check-only", "publicEvidence": "GitHub exposes one successful update-pip-graph check and zero publicly named build/test checks at the tag commit.", "reproductionImpact": "Public GitHub metadata does not supply a release build/test result matrix; private or external CI remains unknown." }, { "id": "RCI033-D20", "field": "independent_robot_system_reproduction", "status": "not-performed", "publicEvidence": "RCI audited metadata, generated archives, source structure and documentation only; it ran no software and accessed no Ryzen AI or robot hardware.", "reproductionImpact": "All application performance, compatibility, power, thermal and stability conclusions remain outside independent RCI verification." } ], "limitations": [ "RCI did not accept an AMD account/EULA download form or download the Windows EXE, NuGet ZIP, Linux TGZ or NPU driver packages.", "RCI downloaded the two GitHub-generated source archives only; their hashes are RCI audit-date identifiers because GitHub publishes no generated-archive digest.", "The fixed repository describes itself as a subset of the complete Ryzen AI Software release, so source-tree findings cannot be generalized to every installed runtime file.", "Eight model paths in the generated archives are Git LFS pointers; RCI did not pull or hash the 404,905,134 bytes of referenced payloads.", "RCI did not install, import, compile or execute Ryzen AI Software, its quicktest, examples, tests or benchmark scripts.", "RCI did not access a Ryzen AI processor, NPU driver environment, Avnet/Weston platform, sensor stack or robot workload.", "The Whisper RTF percentages, -O1 optimization and low-memory statements remain issuer-reported because the release surfaces do not disclose complete protocols or raw results.", "Test-, benchmark- and result-like path counts are explicit filename/path heuristics; they do not equal tests passed, benchmarks run or results valid.", "The root MIT license does not automatically govern EULA packages, drivers, third-party models, datasets, dependencies, documentation or trademarks.", "AMD's latest documentation and living processor list can change after the 2026-08-10 audit; the fixed Git tag and RCI data release preserve the audited boundary." ], "evidenceBoundary": { "strongestSupportedConclusion": "AMD Ryzen AI Software v1.8.0 is a fixed non-prerelease GitHub release whose lightweight tag resolves to a GitHub-verified commit. AMD publicly names supported processor families, model classes, three runtime distribution files, eight new LLM/VLM entries, known limitations and one numerical Whisper RTF statement. The GitHub repository is explicitly a subset of the full release, its generated archives contain eight Git LFS pointers rather than their model payloads, and the runtime packages are outside the GitHub asset set. The audited surfaces do not provide the exact host/model/driver test matrix, protocol, raw logs, power/thermal data or robot workload results required to treat v1.8.0 as robot-computer validation.", "distributionClaim": "The two GitHub source archives expose identical normalized 669-entry path sets and RCI audit-date hashes, but neither is the complete Ryzen AI runtime and neither hash is publisher-supplied. The three documented runtime distributions were not downloaded or independently hashed by RCI.", "supportClaim": "Processor-family and model-class tables are issuer compatibility statements. They cannot identify an exact Avnet/Weston CPU, carrier board, driver, robot, sensor stack or validated workload without a fixed configuration and result matrix.", "performanceClaim": "The 13.9% and 33.7% Whisper RTF values are AMD release-note claims. Without exact hardware, software, audio, timing, baseline, repetition and uncertainty disclosures they cannot support a robot inference ranking or an RCI-reproduced result.", "sourceClaim": "Public examples, benchmark scripts, logs and images improve inspectability. They do not become release-level pass evidence without exact commands, complete dependencies, fixed model payloads and generated result files.", "rightsClaim": "MIT applies to the fixed root repository file; EULA distributions, NPU drivers, Git LFS model objects, third-party models and datasets retain their own item-level terms." }, "suggestedCitation": "Robot Component Index. “Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Evidence: 8 LLM/VLM Additions, One RTF Claim, Zero Robot Benchmarks.” RCI 033, version 0.1.0, 2026-08-10. https://robotcomponentindex.com/research/ryzen-ai-1-8-release-evidence-audit/" }