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.
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.