This year, AMD will bring to market the first processors with Zen 5 architecture. The Granite Ridge family will be released for the AM5 desktop platform, and Strix Point chips will appear in laptops. In the latter, the Reds will also use a new graphics architecture and a more powerful unit to speed up AI operations. All this was recently confirmed by the chipmaker’s management during the AI PC Innovation Summit conference in China.
AMD Strix Point mobile processors will offer a graphics unit based on the enhanced 3rd generation RDNA architecture, also known as RDNA 3+ or RDNA 3.5. Unfortunately, the company is in no hurry to disclose information about the iGPU configuration, but unofficial sources attributed the new chips to up to 16 Compute Units (CU). For comparison, current Hawk Points offer up to 12 RDNA 3 generation CUs.
The Ryzen AI module, responsible for accelerating artificial intelligence operations, will switch to the 2nd generation XDNA architecture. This, according to AMD, will provide three times the performance in AI applications relative to the current Ryzen 8040 (Hawk Point), which uses the XDNA architecture.
The official release of AMD Strix Point mobile chips is scheduled for the second half of this year.
Source:
Tom’s Hardware