Early leaks about the AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC stated that the chip will have an integrated Radeon GPU configured with 12 compute units. This is equivalent to having 768 shaders, the same figure that we can find on the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, but now new information has corrected this data and ensured that it will come with a GPU equipped 16 computing units.

It’s an important fix because having more compute units is equivalent to having more graphics power. In this case we went from 768 shaders to 1024 shadersand also increase texturing units and cores to speed up ray tracing, going from 48 to 64 and from 12 to 16, respectively.

The specifications of the GPU that the Ryzen Z2 Extreme will have are practically the same as we can find in the Radeon 890M, the GPU present in the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU, and it is the most powerful integrated solution that currently exists in the world. computers. Its basis is RDNA 3.5 architecture, and therefore has dual emission shaders.

In terms of performance, this GPU should be better prepared to move games at 1080p, although due to the TDP limitations of the portable console format, upscaling will eventually have to be resorted to to improve fluidity, as it won’t be possible to maximize raw performance with a Maximum TDP 30Wwhich will be the AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme value.

Source: Bilibili.

The Ryzen Z2 Extreme will have an 8-core CPU with a special configuration

And to improve autonomy and load balancing at the CPU level, this chip will come with an octa-core processor split into one 3 + 5 configuration. The first three cores will use the Zen 5 architecture, and the next five cores will be based on the Zen 5c architecture.

Both types of cores will have 1 MB of L2 cache per core and will be able to access both 16 MB of L3 cache. I don’t have any information about the working speed, but the maximum with active thread can be around 5 GHz, and the actual game launch frequencies can be around between 2 GHz and 3 GHz.

AMD is expected to launch the AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme first half of 2025and that the first consoles equipped with this chip start arriving shortly after. We don’t have specific names yet, but I’m confident that ASUS will be one of the first to launch a new portable console equipped with this new chip.

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