An early engineering sample of AMD’s upcoming Strix Point “Ryzen 9” APU, based on the Zen 5 architecture, has been unearthed on Geekbench. This APU contains 12 cores, 24 threads, and 24 MB of L3 cache.
This engineering sample, which bears the OPN ID “100-000000994-14_N,” has been seen on a few occasions, initially on the MilkyWay@home database last year and more recently on shipping manifestos with the chipset lineup Strix Point (1), an FP8 platform design aimed at mobility platforms drawing only 28W of heat.
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Operating from a Xen Virtual Machine, there isn’t much information about the chip as it is being the early stages and there hasn’t been a lot of backing in the Geekbench database. It is, however, identified correctly as an “AuthenticAMD Family 26 Model 32 Stepping 0” part. The Strix Point “Ryzen 9” APU has 12 cores based on the Zen 5 architecture with 24 threads. This is the highest-known configuration of Strix Point SKUs. It is listed with 16MB of L3 cache and 1MB of L2 cache — however, upon final silicon, this is expected to be a total of 24MB of L3 cache.
The L2 cache of the APU is probably standardized to all cores at a 12 MB, with an L1 Instruction cache of 32 KB and an L1 data cache of 48 KB. The L1 data cache above exhibits a 50% addition from the Zen 4 cores. Currently, the APU is noted with a core clock at 2.00 GHz, yet the actual clock reached 1.4 GHz during testing, affirming that it is an early engineering sample.
However, it scored 1217 points in the single-core test and 8016 in the multi-core CPU test. Another test at 2.0 GHz gauge produced much better results. In another test, the APU was tested at 2.0 GHz in the Birman Plus-STX reference platform, the FP8 reference evaluation platform. When compared to the AMD Ryzen 9 8845HS, which has 8 Zen 4 cores and can reach up to 5.2 GHz clock speeds and scores around 12000 points, a Ryzen 9 APU with 12 Zen 5 cores could provide substantial multi-threaded and single-threaded improvements.
In conclusion, the leaked details introduce an AMD Strix Point ES AP with good specifications and a performance powerhouse. The Strix Point APs are set to be launched in the remaining year, with further details and information to be shared during the Computex 2024.
