AMD Strix Point APUs With RDNA 3+ iGPU Should Match RX 6400 With 12 CUs, RTX 3050 With 16 CUs

11.04.2024 - 21:19 / wccftech.com / Hassan Mujtaba

AMD's Strix Point APUs featuring the RDNA 3+ iGPU should offer comparable performance to entry-level discrete GPUs as indicated in new performance rumors.

AMD Is Bringing Entry-Level Discrete GPU Performance To RDNA 3+ iGPUs Featured on Next-Gen Strix Point APUs

AMD's Strix Point APUs are going to be a full-on overhaul, bringing brand new core IPs on all fronts. The CPU side will be upgraded to Zen 4 cores, the GPU side will be upgraded to RDNA 3+ cores and the NPU side will be upgraded to the latest XDNA 2 "Ryzen AI" architecture. Besides that, Strix APUs will come in two configurations, a standard monolithic and a premium chiplet design. AMD will be designating the monolithic variants as Strix Point 1 and the chiplet variants as Strix Point 2. Both of these will feature the same architectures but come in vastly different configurations.

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You can tell by its name that the chiplet design will be the one to look out for as it is designed for enthusiast PCs & while it will take the performance of APUs to the next level, the standard monolithic design will also be offered a good improvement in terms of graphics performance.

It was recently mentioned by @Xinoasassin, an insider with good knowledge of AMD and Intel architectures, that the RDNA 3+ iGPUs featured on the Strix Point APUs will feature performance comparable to entry-level discrete GPU solutions. Xino stated that the 12 Compute Unit config is rated at around 3150 points in 3DMark Time Spy at a constrained TDP of 22-24W & we can expect close to 4000 points in the same benchmark with the full configuration.

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
• 128-bit LPDDR5X Memory Controller
• XDNA 2 Engine Integrated
• ~25 TOPS AI Engine
• 2H 2024 Launch (Expected)

For comparison, the AMD Radeon 780M (RDNA 3) iGPU offers around 2300-2400 points in the Time Spy benchmark at the same TDP and averages around 2800 points at peak TDP on laptops. The same chip also averages around 3300-3500 points using the full unconstrained desktop TDPs. At the same TDP, that's a performance uplift of around 35% which is great for what's mostly going to be the same architecture with some tuning and faster clock speeds. The AMD Radeon RX 6400 & NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 discrete notebook GPUs also average around 3500 points in 3DMark Time Spy and both GPUs run at a higher TDP.

3DMark Time Spy Graphics (Higher is Better)