AMD's Ryzen 8000 "Strix Point" APUs might be a year away from launch but info regarding their hybrid Zen 5 CPU configurations has leaked out.
AMD Ryzen 8000 "Strix Point" APUs Come With 12 Hybrid Zen 5 CPU Cores, 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU Cores & Monolithic Package
The AMD Ryzen 8000 "Strix Point" lineup is expected to come in two configurations, a monolithic & a chiplet design. The latest information from Golden Pig Upgrade talks specifically about the Ryzen 8000 Monolithic APUs which will be very familiar to the Phoenix 2 APUs which are the first to carry a hybrid CPU design, implementing both Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores on the same monolithic package.
Dual CCX design 4C8T (Z5C) +8c16T (Z5D) L3 16+8MB 8WGP
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Once again, it is reported that AMD's Ryzen 8000 "Strix Point" APUs featuring a monolithic design would carry a single CCD with dual CCX. One of these CCX's will feature a 4 core & 8 thread config based on the Zen 5 CPU cores while the other would feature an 8 core & 16 thread config based on the Zen 5C CPU cores. The Zen 5 CCX will feature the full 16 MB L3 cache while the Zen 5C CCX will feature an 8 MB L3 cache for a total of 24 MB L3 cache on the chip. The clock speeds for both CCX's is expected to remain the same but the Zen 5C cores will offer slightly better efficiency.
STX
monolithic
2CCX
4C8T（Z5 Classic）+8c16T（Z5 Dense）
L3 16+8MB
8WGP RDNA3.5https://t.co/hHQ4oBRb8y— HXL (@9550pro) August 5, 2023
One interesting fact, AMD's latest APUs have switched to codenames that correlate with birds. The Phoenix APUs were the first to use such a naming scheme and Strix APUs follow up to that.
For the iGPU side, the AMD Ryzen 8000 "Strix Point" APUs will be configured with the AMD RDNA 3.5 GPU cores with 8 WGP's (Work Group Processors) and a total of 16 Compute Units for up to 1024 stream processors. That's a 33% increase in the number of stream processors and if clock speeds will remain the same at around 2.8-3.0 GHz range, we can expect up to 12 TFLOPs FP32 compute horsepower which will mark a 42% increase over the current fastest RDNA 3 iGPU, the Radeon 780M.
A recently leaked APU may very much be utilizing this exact same configuration as it also featured 12 cores and 24 threads. Besides this, we can expect AMD to feature its RDNA 3.5 GPU cores and a range of I/O within the same die. We also know from a recent LLVM patch that the GFX1150 & 1151 IDs are reserved for Strix Point and Strix Point Halo APUs. We are most likely going to get the APUs as the Ryzen 8050 series (Ryzen 8000 APU lineup).
- Zen 5 + Zen 5C (4nm) Monolithic Design
- Up To 12 Cores
- RDNA 3.5 Graphics Cores
- Up To 16 Compute Units
- 2H 2024 Launch (Expected)
The AMD Strix Point APUs are expected to arrive in 2024 which means they will be competing with Intel's Arrow Lake and the follow-up, Lunar Lake. Intel is also going to be implementing similar tech such as hybrid cores, chiplets, and increased graphics cores within its future disaggregated lineup so it will be a very interesting competition between the two adversaries, mainly within the mobile and laptop segment.
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