AMD Confirms RDNA 3+ GPU Architecture For 2024, Coming To Strix Point APUs With XDNA 2 NPU

21.03.2024 - 13:45 / wccftech.com / Hassan Mujtaba

AMD has officially confirmed RDNA 3+ Radeon GPU architecture for 2024 which will be powering the next-gen Strix Point APUs.

AMD RDNA 3+ Is Headed To Strix Point APUs Later This Year, Also Employ Next-Gen XDNA 2 NPUs For 3x The AI Performance

The announcement was made during an AI PC summit held in Beijing, China. AMD's CEO is currently on a trip to China where the CEO will be meeting with AI and PC partners to accelerate the launch of its next-generation platforms. While the company launched its Hawk Point "Ryzen 8040" APU family earlier this year, the next-gen Strix Point APUs will mark a major upgrade, featuring a brand new CPU, GPU, and NPU architecture.

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When AMD officially revealed the Strix Point APU lineup at CES 2024, they only mentioned the Generative AI capabilities and the shipment date of 2024. We had already known that the chips were going to incorporate the Zen 5 CPU core architecture but it looks like the company has now officially confirmed the GPU architecture too which is known as RDNA 3+.

The AMD RDNA 3+ GPU architecture for Radeon & Ryzen APUs is not a mystery. It has been showing up in patches for a while now and is referred to as the RDNA 3.5 "GFX115X" series. Officially, this architecture is going to be branded as RDNA 3+ and is simply an optimization of existing RDNA 3 IPs which we have seen on Radeon RX 7000 GPUs and Ryzen 7040/8040 APUs. There are no details provided but AMD did confirm that the architecture will be incorporated in Strix Point APUs when the launch later this year.

Besides offering the latest Zen 5 CPU and RDNA 3.5 GPU core architectures, the AMD Ryzen 8050 "Strix Point" APUs are proposed to offer a 3x improvement in Generative AI capabilities. To help achieve this level of performance, the Strix Point APUs will embed the latest XDNA 2 NPUs & a far more robust Ryzen AI software suite.

Considering that AMD's Ryzen 8040 "Hawk Point" APUs offer up to 16 TOPs of performance, a 3x improvement with Ryzen 8050 "Strix Point" APUs means that we are looking at up to 48 TOPs of AI performance. That's almost 50 TOPs which will mark an impressive achievement for AMD's AI and NPU capabilities.

AMD Ryzen 8050 Strix Point Mono Expected Features:

• Zen 5 (4nm) Monolithic Design
• Up To 12 Cores In Hybrid Config (Zen 5 + Zen 5C)
• 32 MB of Shared L3 cache
• 35% Faster CPU Versus Phoenix at 50W
• 16 RDNA 3+ Compute Units
• On Par With RTX 3050 Max-Q
• 128-bit LPDDR5X Memory Controller
• XDNA 2 Engine Integrated
• ~25 TOPS AI Engine
• 2H 2024 Launch (Expected)

AMD Ryzen 8050 Strix Point Halo Expected Features:

• Zen 5 Chiplet Design
• Up To 16 Cores
• 64 MB of Shared L3 cache
• 25% Faster CPU Versus