A Chinese source assures that AMD is working on a Ryzen Strix Halo APU, which could have a unique configuration, and that it would not only have a Zen 5 CPU, but also come with the most powerful integrated GPU ever mounted. in a solution of this type for PC. Aren’t you impressed? It should because as I said in the title It would be more powerful than the PS5 GPU.

As many of our AMD readers already know uses two types of designs in its Ryzen APUs for PCs, one of the monolithic type, where the CPU, GPU and NPU share the same silicon chip, and another of the MCM type, where the CPU, GPU, NPU and other elements are integrated into different silicon chips, each with its own package and a shared package .

Well, the new Ryzen Strix Halo APU would use it chip-based MCM type design, meaning it would have two CPU chiplets or CCD units, each with 8 cores and 16 threads and 32MB of L3 cache. In total, your CPU should 16 cores and 32 threads based on the Zen 5 architectureand they could work at a maximum speed of 5.8 GHz Since this is a very high speed, I believe that it will be turbo mode with one active thread and the frequency with all active cores will be below 5 GHz.

The GPU will undoubtedly be the highlight of this new generation of Ryzen APUs as according to this rumor it will have a configuration of 40 compute units, which means that it will have 2,560 shaders, 160 texture units, 64 raster units, 40 second-generation cores for ray tracing acceleration, and 32 MB of infinite cache. Its architecture will theoretically be RDNA 3.5, a revision of the current RDNA 3, which will likely have minor improvements focused mainly on efficiency.

Will the Ryzen APU be more powerful than the PS5?

On the CPU side There is no doubtI’d give it a shot because the PS5 uses a Zen 2 CPU with 8 cores and 16 threads, and in this case we’re talking about a 16 cores and 32 threads model based on the Zen 5. Not only would it have more cores and threads and run more often, but he would be three generations ahead.

The expensive GPU would also be much more powerful since it would have a Ryzen APU a solution with a higher number of shaders which would use a much more advanced architecture and also have 32MB of infinite cache, meaning it could handle higher resolutions better due to the bandwidth spikes this cache would generate.

And speaking of bandwidth, that’s usually the limiting factor whenever we’re talking about integrated GPUs in a PC. Sony and AMD solved the problem in the PS5 with a unified memory design where we have one memory bus. 256 bits and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. This next-gen Ryzen APU will come with a 256-bit bus, use LPDDR5X memory at 8,533 MHz, and be backed by that 32 MB of infinite cache to generate peak bandwidth.

Such a configuration would greatly remove the bottleneck which in the PC world has always meant memory in the integrated GPU, so yes, the GPU could reach almost its full potential and be more powerful than the PS5. That means we would have graphics with this new Ryzen APU more powerful than Radeon RX 6700 XT integrated into one package. Impressive if this rumor turns out to be true.

For the rest, the source says this APU would use a node 4nm from TSMC and that it would be a solution for notebooks and small computers, that means it won’t arrive in the DIY market in AM5 format, at least not initially. Its Neural Processing Unit (NPU) would have performance between 45 and 50 TOPswhich means that it would meet the recommended requirements for Microsoft Copilot and its consumption will be configurable in the range of 45 to 175 watts maximum.

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