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07.12.2023 00:34, Mykola Khizhnyak
At the Advance AI event, AMD announced Strix Point mobile processors. One of the key features of this series will be the next generation neural engine (NPU) – XDNA 2. According to AMD, this AI coprocessor will provide a threefold increase in performance in AI tasks compared to the NPU of the Hawk Point processors, also announced today.
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Let us remember that Hawk Point chips (Ryzen 8040) are successors to Phoenix processors (Ryzen 7040). Their launch is expected in the first half of next year. Ryzen 8040 processors copy their predecessors exactly in almost every way, but are equipped with an updated neural processing unit (NPU) for AI tasks. While the Ryzen 7040 chips deliver 10 TOPS (trillion operations per second) performance on AI tasks, the new Ryzen 8040 NPU promises 16 TOPS AI performance. Strix Point processors, expected to be announced in 2024, in turn, promise at least a threefold increase in AI performance compared to Hawk Point, that is, up to at least 48 TOPS.
AMD has not announced the official names of the future Strix Point processors. Whether it will be Ryzen 8050 or Ryzen 9050 is unknown. However, it is known that the said processors will use Zen 5 cores, a 4nm manufacturing process and will be equipped with integrated graphics cores with RDNA 3+ architecture, also known as Navi 3.5.
Unfortunately, AMD did not provide any additional details about the new chips, probably leaving the details for its presentation at CES 2024.
