AMD Phoenix APU’s performance has been greatly improved
According to AMD’s official Ryzen 7000 series roadmap, there will be two Zen 4 architecture products for notebook platforms, namely Dragon Range for high-end, enthusiast-level gaming notebooks and Phoenix for thin and light gaming notebooks. It was previously reported that, compared with the Ryzen 6000 series of the Zen 3+ architecture codenamed Rembrandt, the number of CUs of the Phoenix APU will continue to increase, reaching 16 to 24 which means at least the size of the Navi 24 core, and possibly the newer RDNA 3 architecture.
It is said that the TDP of the AMD Phoenix APU is between 35W and 45W, and Twitter user @greymon55 revealed that AMD Phoenix APU’s performance is about equal to the 60W GeForce RTX 3060 mobile GPU. As an APU, if Phoenix really has such performance, it is quite good, and it can already meet the needs of many games.
Nvidia offers several versions of the GeForce RTX 3060 mobile GPU with different TDPs, and the 60W version is not widely adopted by laptop makers. The ROG Zephyrus G14, which ASUS launched last year, is one of them, which can increase output by up to 20W thanks to Dynamic Boost support. Compared with the GeForce RTX 3060 mobile GPU with full performance release, the clock of the 60W version is between 817MHz and 1282MHz, and the performance is about 30% lower.
Perhaps the GPU of the Phoenix APU is not large, but the clock can be further increased through the targeted optimization of the new architecture and the updated 5nm process to make the performance stronger.
