AMD next-generation Phoenix APU may increase the number of CUs
AMD released Ryzen 6000 series APUs this year. This Zen 3+ architecture product, code-named Rembrandt, further optimizes the original Zen 3 architecture. The GPU replaces the previous Vega architecture with the RDNA 2 architecture and supports USB 4, PCIe 4.0, and LPDDR5/DDR5 memory at the same time, and is manufactured using a 6nm process.
According to past news, the Zen 4 architecture APU code-named Phoenix will replace the Ryzen 6000 series in the future. Like the CPU code-named Raphael, it will support PCIe 5.0. In terms of GPU, the existing RDNA 2 architecture should be continued, and the Radeon 680M equipped with Rembrandt APU has left a deep impression.
Recently, new rumors pointed out that the number of CUs of the Phoenix APU will continue to increase, reaching 16 to 24, which means that the number of CUs of the Phoenix APU will at least catch up with the Radeon RX 6500 XT based on Navi 24 cores. For a discrete graphics card, such a configuration may be relatively general, but for integrated graphics, this is another big jump, and the performance is theoretically stronger than that of the Xbox Series S.
Since AMD established the APU, it has been trying to replace the entry-level discrete graphics card. While the APU offers decent performance, it always falls short for a number of reasons. With Intel’s efforts on the GPU, the performance has grown, posing a greater threat to AMD, and Intel’s integrated graphics has an excellent performance in encoding and decoding, which is a relatively missing part of AMD in recent years.
