AMD Ryzen 8000 “Strix Point” appeared on MilkyWay@home

AMD has envisaged launching its novel Zen 5 architecture in 2024, heralding the Ryzen 8000 series, which may also feature a ‘big.LITTLE’ configuration. Rumors suggest that Zen 5 architecture products may be released in the first half of 2024, potentially earlier than many have anticipated. A recent cascade of leaked information appears to corroborate these conjectures.

Of late, a Ryzen 8000 series ES chip emerged within the database of MilkyWay@home, tested on an Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS environment, possibly by an AMD internal engineer. Given that MilkyWay@home has previously showcased Zen 3 and Zen 4 architecture chips ahead of their release, it has seemingly become a popular region to unearth AMD’s unreleased chips.

The chip, devoid of a retail name and displayed as “100-000000994-03_N”, boasts 12 cores and 24 threads, falling within AMD’s Family 26 Model 32 Stepping 0 series. Logically speaking, given that Family 25 includes Zen 3, Zen 3+, and Zen 4 architecture processors, Family 26 is likely to represent Zen 5 architecture.

Collating previous information, this ES version processor likely pertains to the “Strix Point” APU codename. Upholding a monolithic design, the CPU component introduces a Zen 5 + Zen 5c hybrid architecture, potentially a 4×Zen 5 + 8×Zen 5c or 8×Zen 5 + 4×Zen 5c configuration, thereby augmenting the core count compared to existing mobile processors. The GPU component will see an increase in the number of CUs to 16, based on the RDNA 3.5/3+ architecture, and it boasts a 32MB shared L3 cache and an integrated XDNA architecture AI engine.

Reportedly, when the Strix Point’s power consumption is configured at 50W, the CPU performance surpasses the current Phoenix chip by 35%, and the GPU performance is equivalent to that of NVIDIA’s RTX 3050 Max-Q, signifying a rather impressive enhancement in performance.