AMD supposedly confirmed the existence of its next generation APU, which goes by the codename Strix Halo. And no, it bears no relevance to ASUS’ own ROG Strix lineup.
Evidence of Strix Halo’s existence was found on ROCm, AMD’s own open-source platform for GPU computation. Further, the future APU is reportedly split into two possible products, with sub-codenames GFX1150 and GFX1151. While no additional details are included with the names, the patch notes do reference the initial Strix Point silicon as STRIX1.
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For context, Strix Point is slated to be the successor to Phoenix Point, and is targetted at next-generation laptops, while Strix Halo is expected to go toe-to-toe with Apple’s M-Series silicon, which is currently in its third iteration, also known as the M3 series.
Getting back on point, Strix Halo are expected to feature as many as 16 cores based on the upcoming Zen5 CPU architectures, and because it is technically an APU, speculations suggest that we could see as many as 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs or graphics core embedded into the silicon. To provide yet another point of reference, that’s more CUs than the upcoming Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics cards.
On that note, AMD is expected to announce its Zen5 architecture later this year, but when exactly is still up in the air. If we were to go by its habit and pattern, we can surmise that said launch may happen at one of two periods: in June, which is when Computex 2024 is slated to begin, or notably between September and November, which was when the chipmaker launched its Zen4 architecture back in 2022. Whenever the case, we’ll probably hear more about Strix Halo then.
In any case, we recommend that you take this story with the usual surgeon general’s warning of salt consumption, at least until more concrete and substantial news comes about.
(Source: Videocardz, ROCm, Moore’s Law Is Dead)
