Slowly, things are falling into place for the processors Ryzen 8000 and the introduction of a hybrid architecture at AMD.
The very recent announcement of the Phoenix 2 APU confirmed AMD’s interest in hybrid architectures, which the American company had rather tended to avoid. The Ryzen 8000s should drive the point home.
Two new APUs in Zen5
Last April, the first rumors about the next generation of Ryzen surfaced. Moore’s Law is Dead was then the only one to present its information and given the recent errors of the guy, we were waiting for new sources to confirm the thing.
It is now done and our colleagues from VideoCardz in turn relay the indiscretions of Olrak29 who tweeted various interesting things about two of the multiple ranges planned around the Ryzen 8000: the Strix Point on one side and the Strix Halo on the other.
In either case, it would be about APUs, processors with a high-performance integrated graphics solution. The design of the two series, however, seems to vary quite significantly: monolithic for Strix Point and chiplet for Strix Halo.
Monolithic vs Chiplet
Even more interesting, VideoCardz points out that Strix Halo would have to settle for Zen5 cores – 16 to be exact – when Strix Point would adopt a hybrid design in the manner of what Intel has been doing for two generations already or what AMD announced with Phoenix 2.
In the case of Strix Point, we are talking about 12 cores with four Zen5 cores and eight Zen5c cores. The whole question will be how less efficient/more efficient the Zen5cs are than the Zen5s. On Phœnix 2, everything suggests that the difference between Zen4 and Zen4c is quite small, it is mainly a question of reducing the associated cache memory.
Thus designed, Strix Point would be a good candidate to succeed the Ryzen 7040, the Phoenix. We note in particular the presence of 16 RDNA3.5 calculation units for the graphics part and a TDP of between 15 and 45 watts. For its part, Strix Halo would rather replace the Dragon Range with 40 RDNA3.5 computing units and a TDP of 55 to 120 watts.
The latest rumors, however, do not give any launch window for chips that previous rumors were stalling for the middle of next year (Strix Point) or even the last quarter of 2024 (Strix Halo).
Source : VideoCardz
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