AMD Ryzen AI 400 Medusa Point laptop chips rumoured to stick with an RDNA 3-based GPU

[Redaktion]

A new leak from Weibo says AMD has no plans to upgrade the GPU on its upcoming Medusa Point series of laptop chips. While their desktop counterparts (Medusa Ridge) will get an upgraded RDNA 5 iGPU, the Ryzen AI 400 SKUs have to make do with an RDNA 3-based solution.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-AI-400-Medusa-Point-laptop-chips-rumoured-to-stick-with-an-RDNA-3-based-GPU.970660.0.html

[O'Connell]

The iGPU on Strix Halo is even more than consumers use. 40CU are a lot for everybody, in any case scenario, so agree with AMD to not move on a new architecture, also because only gamers can benefit from it, but all consumers see also the price, and are reluctant to spend thousand money for a super  APU. Totally agree with the choice of AMD management, becuse in this case, the only thing to do is a refresh with higher clock aannnddd increse frequency of LPDDR5X ram where the APU benefit from the most. I would like to remember that Samsung has already created 9600 MHz LPDDR5X, Innosilicon 10000 MHz and SK Hynix reading from techpower up even 10533 MHz reducing by 8% the voltage!

Associating even Strix Halo 395 with the latest LPDDR5M 10533 Mhz undoubdetly the performances will increase by 15% at lest.

[Mr Majestyk]

What a load of rubbish. If you think the desktop cpu will get RDNA5 and Strix Point successor, Medusa Point will stick with RDNA3.5 you are delusional. What a ridiculous rumour

[Senpai]

What a load of rubbish.

We don't even have 9600x3d / 9700x3d yet and strix halo is just barely out the door (still in 0 actual laptops, 1 tablet and a few nucs). Yet to have any reasonably priced kraken point laptops or z2 extreme handhelds.

But we've already begun talks on zen 6.. x'D Bless these souls.

Let's please sort out our _current_ issues AMD before we start moving to the next thing.

[A]

Isn't Medusa Point an update to Hawk Point? It wasn't meant to replace Strix. There was also that rumor that if Medusa Point doesn't work out, they would use Bald Eagle Point which was RDNA 3.5, so this may just be Bald Eagle Point.

[ArsLoginName]

I agree with O'Connell. If you look at Hardware Canucks review of both the 16 core 40 CU Strix Halo vs the 12 core 32 CU, you would see the 32 CU version loses by mostly around 10% in many of the gaming and other tests despite having 20% less CUs. Thus suggests the current 40 CU is already memory bandwidth starved. Further, if AMD did upgrade the GPU to UDNA/RDNA5, they could drop the CU count down to say something like 32 and 24 CUs for the top variants which would incite further uproar due to reduced CU count. Sometimes you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. But faster LPDDR5x of > 9600 is appreciated either way

[opckieran]

Would be disappointing not to get FSR4 on the latest APUs.

[GeorgeS]

Would be disappointing not to get FSR4 on the latest APUs.

Agreed.

It would ALSO be disappointing NOT to get a high performance iGPU in modern/next generation APU's. Is AMD really going to only offer the best iGPU's in their top of the line parts?

The concept here is simple: marry an R5 or R7 with a top of the line iGPU while hitting both lower TGP and cost for more products.

Thereby ditching the need of a dGPU once and for all but the most demanding applications.