AMD’s Ryzen 8000 “Strix Point” APUs may be a year away from release, but details on their hybrid Zen 5 CPU configurations have surfaced. The AMD Ryzen 8000 “Strix Point” series is scheduled to be available in two configurations: monolithic and chiplet. According to the most recent information from Golden Pig Upgrade, the Ryzen 8000 Monolithic APUs will be quite similar to the Phoenix 2 APUs, which are the first to carry a hybrid CPU design, incorporating both Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores on the same monolithic chip.
AMD’s Ryzen 8000 “Strix Point” APUs with a monolithic design are said to have a single CCD with twin CCX.
One of these CCXs will have a 4 core and 8 thread configuration based on Zen 5 CPU cores, while the other will have an 8 core and 16 thread configuration based on Zen 5C CPU cores.
The Zen 5 CCX will have a full 16 MB L3 cache, while the Zen 5C CCX will have an 8 MB L3 cache, giving the chip a total of 24 MB L3 cache. Clock speeds for both CCXs are likely to remain constant, although the Zen 5C cores will be marginally more efficient.
One noteworthy fact is that AMD’s newer APUs have codenames that are related to birds. The Phoenix APUs were the first to employ this naming scheme, and the Strix APUs follow suit.
The AMD Ryzen 8000 “Strix Point” APUs will be equipped with AMD RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, 8 WGPs (Work Group Processors), and a total of 16 Compute Units for up to 1024 stream processors. This represents a 33% increase in the number of stream processors, and if clock speeds remain constant at about 2.8-3.0 GHz, we may expect up to 12 TFLOPs FP32 computational horsepower, a 42% increase over the current fastest RDNA 3 iGPU, the Radeon 780M.
A newly disclosed APU may have used the same configuration, as it also had 12 cores and 24 threads. Aside from that, we may expect AMD to include their RDNA 3.5 GPU cores as well as a variety of I/O on the same device. A recent LLVM patch also revealed that the GFX1150 and 1151 IDs are reserved for Strix Point and Strix Point Halo APUs. The APUs will most likely be released as part of the Ryzen 8050 series (Ryzen 8000 APU range). AMD Strix Point APUs are slated to launch in 2024, competing with Intel’s Arrow Lake and its follow-up, Lunar Lake.
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