After the appearance of the alleged AMD Ryzen 8000 desktop processors in the Einstein@Home and LHC@home databases and the first confirmations emerged from the Meet The Expert webinar, the Zen 5 architecture returns to peep out, this time on the benchmark database MilkyWay@home with what should be the top-of-the-range processor of the Strix Point mobile APU series. This, at least, according to what can be deduced from the code name of the CPU that bears the words engineering sample, the initials 100-000000994-03N and belonging to the Family 26 that should precisely unite the Zen 5 processors.
The other element that makes us think of the flagship processor of the Strix Point series are the 24 cores that, indicated in a simplistic way on the page of the benchmark in question, should correspond to 12 cores with multithreading, according to rumors the maximum achievable by this series that should not, however, be the only one. The monolithic processors of the Strix Point series, in fact, should be joined by those of the Strix Point Halo series that would reach up to 16 cores with chiplet-type design.
As anticipated, the new AMD processors will mount integrated RDNA 3.5 GPUs alongside the Artificial Intelligence Engine technology that was introduced with the Ryzen 7000 series APUs. For the rest, the information is scarce and consists largely of rumors. The chips, this is clear, already exist, but names and specifications could turn out to be different or could change in the race.
Official instead the fact that we will not see an increase in the number of cores of any of the new Ryzen 8000 processors, but we still expect a nice leap forward in terms of performance thanks to the Zen 5 cores and thanks to the jump of integrated GPUs of a generation compared to the current integrated GPUs RDNA 2. The benefit will most likely be minimal in the case of desktop processors from which we expect a handful of compute units as for the Ryzen 7000, but it should be relevant in the case of mobile APUs.
Among other things, the RDNA 3.5 GPUs could debut on processors with Zen 4 architecture and more precisely on the Hawk Point mobile APUs, expected at the beginning of next year already under the aegis of the Ryzen 8000 family. For Zen 5, Zen 5c, Zen 5 desktop processors with 3DV-cache, however, there is talk of a generic 2024 as well as for RDNA 4 GPUs for discrete video cards, while the Zen 5 Strix Point and Strix Point mobile APUs should arrive in the second half of 2024.
Family: AMD Strix Point
Architecture: Zen 5
Production process: 4nm
L3 cache: 32 MB
CPU Core/Thread: up to 12/24
Integrated GPU: RDNA 3+ 4nm iGPU
GPU Cores: up to 16 CUs (1024 Cores)
Configurable TDP: 15-45W (cTDP 65)
Launch: second half of 2024 (rumor)
