As soon as AMD introduced the new Hawk Point APUs, more information about the successor series is already emerging Strix Pointwhich will be built on a new architecture Zen 5. This is not the first time we have encountered it (1, 2), now mentions of them have appeared in the ROCm repository on GitHub. The Strix Point should be available in two variants, with the GFX1150 GPU for the classic Strix Point Mono and the GFX1151 for the Strinx Point Halo. In both cases, these GPUs are supposed to have the upgraded RDNA 3+ architecture (sometimes also referred to as RDNA 3.5). We can expect higher frequencies and higher numbers of cores. The powerful NPU XDNA 2 will also appear here for processing artificial intelligence algorithms within the Ryzen AI technology.
So let’s take a look again at what has been leaked to the public about the processors so far. Attention, this is unofficial information, so the reality may differ. Strix Point Mono it is supposed to be a monolithic APU manufactured by a 4nm process. It will use a hybrid architecture combining Zen 5 and Zen 5C cores, increasing from the current maximum of 8 cores to 12 cores. We will also increase the maximum capacity of the L3 cache to 32 MB. While the Hawk Point has a GPU with a maximum of 12 CU, the Strix Point Mono should be 16 CU, i.e. a 33% increase in the number of cores. If we assume slight architecture changes and higher clock rates, the graphics performance could really go up a lot (40-50%?).
Strix Point Halo it should only use the Zen 5 architecture, the maximum should even be 16 cores. In its case, the capacity of the L3 cache will increase to 64 MB, and the integrated GPU should really be the extreme. In his case, they are talking about 40 CU, which is more than the Radeon RX 7600 (including the XT version). The real question here is what the consumption of these processors will be, when the aforementioned Radeons have 165-190W TBP in the desktop variants. In the past there was talk of a configurable TDP from 25 (for mobile game consoles) up to 125 W.
When it comes to AI performance, Phoenix was distinguished by the NPU with a performance of 10 TOPS, together with the GPU it reached 33 TOPS. Hawk Point increased the performance of the NPU to 16 TOPS, with the GPU we are at 39 TOPS. It is thus just below the limit of requirements for an AI PC from Microsoft. However, Mono should send the performance of the NPU to 25 TOPS, which, together with the GPU, should very safely cross the 40 TOPS limit (approx. 55 TOPS can be expected). In the case of the Halo version, the NPU alone should have a performance of 50 TOPS. Both processors are expected to be launched in the second half of this year.
2024-01-24 04:43:38
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