A reduction of the GPU part of a processor whose graphical solution should still be impressive.
From a purely subjective point of view, the Phoenix processors, whose existence (and imminence) AMD confirmed during CES 2023 in Las Vegas, could well be among the most interesting to come. Information around a Phoenix 2 for smaller machines further reinforces this interest.
Two Phoenix APUs rather than one
Remember that just like the Dragon Range, the Phoenix are not exactly CPUs, but rather what are called APUs. If they integrate many high-performance CPU cores, they are thus distinguished by an integrated graphics part much more muscular than the classic iGPUs.
In the case of Dragon Range, it will be necessary to be satisfied with a GPU part based on RDNA 2, the previous generation of graphics chips signed AMD. On the other hand, the American brand has confirmed that Phoenix will have RDNA 3 graphics cores in order to do without a graphics card.
Until now, we only knew Phoenix 1 which was presented by AMD during the last CES. However, it would seem that a Phoenix 2 is also planned with less L2 cache in order to make it a smaller chip to succeed Mendocino.
256 KB L2 cache
The Phoenix APUs would therefore have two references, on the one hand the GFX1103_R1 for the Phoenix 1 with a standard L2 cache of 512 KB. On the other hand, the GFX1103_R2 therefore concern the Phoenix 2 and are distinguished by this L2 cache of “only » 256 KB.
We suspect, such a drop in the second level cache will have an impact on the graphics performance of these Phoenix 2. But while we are talking about a successor to the Mendocino APU, it is above all its energy efficiency. who will be monitored.
From the first information about the Phoenix 2, several observers imagined that the future APU could find itself at the heart of PC consoles that have become more and more fashionable in recent times and, why not, of a possible revision of the Steam Deck.
Source : Wccftech
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