AMD Notebook APU with up to 22 cores: New details on Zen 6 “Medusa Point” 30 comments stuck
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New leaks on AMD’s upcoming “Medusa Point” notebook APU indicate up to 22 CPU cores at the highest expansion stage of a Ryzen 9. Another 12-core CCD is said to be included here for a 10-core monolithic APU. Graphics performance should remain manageable.
The monolithic APU forms the basis
As reported by the well-known leaker HXL (@9550PRO), the basic structure of the Medusa Point is composed as follows: I/O, four regular Zen-6 cores, four compact Zen-6C cores, and two low-power cores with a total of 8 C cores from mRNA 3.5+. This monolithic APU forms the base configuration, featuring a total of 10 cores of various Zen 6 variants in products classified as Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7. For flagship models under the Ryzen-9 label, another complex 12-core CCD likely owes the full-fledged Zen 6 CCD cores.
This would give the top models of mobile processors an impressive number of CPU cores, 22 in total. This is made possible by the higher density suspected for Zen 6, which allows for more than 8 cores per CCD for the first time. However, there is no improvement in graphics performance in the punch-hole configuration; quite the opposite. With the ZEN-5-APUS currently available under the codename Strix Point, up to 16 CUs of the 3.5th generation rDNA are already offered.
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