AMD is expected to announced the Ryzen Z2 SoC, the successor to its wildly popular Ryzen Z1 series, which was initially made in collaboration with ASUS and first made its debut with the ROG Ally, sometime next year. Recently, rumours have spread that the CPU and GPU maker isn’t making just one but three variants of the chipset.
Supposedly, AMD is working on releasing a Ryzen Z2 Extreme, a Z2 and a Z2G. All three are expected to house 12 Compute Units (CUs) although according to HXL, all three will be made of completely different architectures. What that means is that, depending on the chipset, the processors could be powered by Strix Point, Hawk Point, or Rembrandt architectures.
Z2E 12CU RDNA3.5 (Strix Point)
Z2 12CU RDNA3 (Hawk Point)
Z2G 12CU RDNA2 (Rembrandt)https://t.co/4DCn5PTeTY— HXL (@9550pro) October 22, 2024
As you’ve no doubt deduced, the Ryzen Z2 Extreme, being the top-tier model that it is, will likely be based off the newer Strix Point architecture that powers AMD’s Ryzen AI mobile chipset. This is important for gaming, as it means the processor will ship out with the more potent RDNA3.5 CUs, which the chipmaker currently markets with the Radeon 800M seres.
As for the Z2 and Z2G, it is alleged that they will based on Hawk Point and Rembrandt, respectively. Hawk Point is basically the same architecture being used with the Z1 Extreme and Z1, while Rembrandt features RDNA2 cores which, at this point, is a little long in the tooth.
There was also mention of a fourth and more potent Ryzen Z2 Extreme X SoC. This chipset was said to feature 16 RDNA3.5 cores: the same as the full-fat Radeon 890M that you get with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. However, that processor appears to have been cancelled.
(Source: Videocardz, HXL, BiliBili)
