Ryzen 8000 Zen 5 laptop processors were seen

Recently, the YouTube page Moores Law is Dead has obtained new information about AMD’s Zen 5 architecture. This information is related to Ryzen 8000 Zen 5 APUs are the most detailed information that has been published so far about this architecture. Until now, no specific technical details of this architecture had been published.

Ryzen 8000 Zen 5 processors

As we said, we are seeing the release of the first technical details of the Zen 5 architecture. These details include information such as the number of cores and even the internal graphics type of Ryzen 8000 Zen 5 APUs. Let’s start with graphic architecture. It seems that AMD plans to develop the RDNA 3.5 architecture for these processors, which is an improved version of the current generation RDNA architecture.
We already knew that AMD is working on Strix Point series APUs. Now we know that these processors have up to 12 cores. The red team is also working on a more powerful processor called Strix Halo, which may also be called Sarlak. This processor is supposed to have a 16-core chiplet design. The internal RDNA 3.5 graphics of the Halo Strix processor is also going to be equipped with 16 CU units (4 more than the current generation of RDNA3 graphics). On the other hand, the Strix Halo processor will have 40 CUs in its internal graphics.
Red Team’s Halo/Starlak processor is set to be the company’s most powerful laptop APU for 2024. This processor is considered a direct competitor to Intel’s M-series processors, and we will most likely see it in high-end laptops that no longer need discrete graphics.
As mentioned, the flagship version of Strix APUs with 40 CU graphics units is a direct competitor to the RTX 4070 Max-Q graphics card. Of course, versions of this internal graphics with 32, 24 and 20 CU units will also be developed, which will compete with Nvidia’s RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 cards.

More importantly, new information has been released regarding the replacement of Dragon Range processors with the name Fire Range. These processors are AMD’s flagship laptop processors and are supposed to have up to 16 cores, just like the Dragon Range processors. The internal graphics of Fire Range processors was previously announced as RDNA 3, but now it has been changed to RDNA 2. The Range series processors with the HX suffix are basically desktop processors optimized for use in laptops. AMD can easily upgrade these processors with Zen 5 chips and keep the IOD chip that contains the internal graphics unchanged.

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