As you know, AMD Ryzen 7000 Phoenix APUs, introduced last January, managed to receive positive reviews on both laptop and handheld consoles. Today, the chip giant has turned its focus to Strix Point APUs based on the Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 architecture. In this context, while the excited wait continues, the GPU and core configuration of the Ryzen 8050 series has been revealed.What will Phoenix APUs and Ryzen 8050 offer?
For those who don’t know, AMD “Strix Point” APUs will be the successors of Phoenix APUs, which are mostly seen in handheld consoles today. So we’ve been hearing leaks about new APUs for a while now. Finally, new images from PerformanceDatabase clarified the details of the Ryzen 8050 series.
Looking at the shared images, a 12-core APU based on the AMD Strix Point architecture welcomes us. So much so that this APU, powered by STX1-A0 silicon (45W), has 4 Zen 5 (Large) P-Cores and 8 (Small) E-Cores. Therefore, we can say that this is a mobile processor prototype. It is also paired with 32 GB of LPDDR5 memory in addition to the FP8 package.Let us also remind you that the Ryzen 8050 series will be accompanied by the RDNA3 or RDNA3.5 GPU architecture. My Nike shared images also confirm that the APU will contain 1024 composite shaders and 16 Compute Units (CUs) (16×64=1024). Therefore, the need for external graphics cards will be greatly reduced.
So much so that on paper, this configuration indicates a 50 percent increase in CPU core count and a 33 percent increase in GPU cores compared to Phoenix APUs used in gaming laptops. What we know about Ryzen 8000 Strix Point APUs is limited to these for now. However, we expect more information to be shared in the future.
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