2023-10-06 20:09:00
AMD Rumored to Follow Ryzen 7040HS Phoneix APUs Ryzen 7040HS Phoneix APUs with Ryzen 8000 Strix Point APUs and Strix Halo. For the uninitiated, the AMD Strix Point and Strix Halo APUs are said to be combinations of Zen 5/5c CPU cores and RDNA 3.5 or 3+ iGPUs. Both APUs are expected to appear in laptops next year. Adding to the growing pile of information about the Strix Point, the leaker All_The_Watts shared Strix Point APU specs on Twitter that seem to confirm much of what we’ve already heard.
For starters, All_The_Watts claims Strix Point APUs will feature up to 4 large processors Zen 5 and 8 little hearts Zen 5c for a total of 12 cores. Since Zen 5c cores are capable of hyperthreading, the total number of threads for the 12-core Strix Point APU is expected to be 24. There would be two CCXs or clusters of cores.
As for the cache size, the Zen 5 CCX appears to have a 4MB L2 cache and a 16MB L3 cache. On the other hand, the Zen 5c CCX is expected to have 8MB of L2 and L3 cache . So Strix Point APUs could have 24MB of L3 cache and 12MB of L2 cache in total. For comparison, the high-end Phoenix APU, the Ryzen 9 7940HShas 8 MB of L2 cache and 16 MB of L3 cache.
All_The_Watts also claims that the Strix Point will have an 8 WGP/16 CUs RDNA 3+ iGPU. In other words, the Strix Point iGPU could have 33.33% more CPU than the Radeon 780M inside the Phoenix APUs, which has 12 CUs. If this increase translates into a substantial improvement in graphics performance, next year could be a turning point for integrated graphics cards, as Intel also announced significant improvements for the Meteor Lake Xe LPG iGPU.
The AMD Strix Point is also said to be equipped with 64 AI Engine tiles to significantly enhance the AI capabilities on the chip. For reference, the XDNA AI Accelerator inside the Phoenix APUs only has 20 tiles.
Finally, All_The_Watts claims that the Strix Point has a TDP of 28-35+ W with supported memory speeds of DDR5-6400/LPDDR5X-8533.
In short, the AMD Strix Point APUs appear to be a big step up from the Zen 4 Phoenix CPUs in terms of core count, cache size, and iGPU. However, this information is not definitive and it remains to be seen how accurate it is.
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