AMD 'Strix Halo' leaked benchmarks reveal Radeon RX 8060S iGPU performance just shy of RTX 4060 desktop GPU

[Redaktion]

An AMD Strix Halo engineering sample has been benchmarked, and the leaked Time Spy results show the Radeon iGPU very nearly matching the average Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 desktop GPU, hinting at a massive improvement over the AMD Radeon RX 890M.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Strix-Halo-leaked-benchmarks-reveal-Radeon-RX-8060S-iGPU-performance-just-shy-of-RTX-4060-desktop-GPU.960198.0.html

[wvdschel]

the memory it was paired with was 128 GB (8 × 16 GB sticks) of LPDDR5-8532 RAM. This RAM quantity immediately sets off alarm bells, suggesting that the test system was likely a desktop or some sort of test platform, which would likely have much better access to cooling than most laptops would allow for.

No? LPDDR5 is not available on desktop platforms, and mobile products like the Asus Flow Z13 and HP ZBook 14 G1a have both been announced with up to 128GB of memory. That's the whole selling point of these chips, having massive unified memory that allows the GPU to use up to 96GB of fast, wide bus memory.

[A]

the memory it was paired with was 128 GB (8 × 16 GB sticks) of LPDDR5-8532 RAM. This RAM quantity immediately sets off alarm bells, suggesting that the test system was likely a desktop or some sort of test platform, which would likely have much better access to cooling than most laptops would allow for.

No? LPDDR5 is not available on desktop platforms, and mobile products like the have both been announced with up to 128GB of memory. That's the whole selling point of these chips, having massive unified memory that allows the GPU to use up to 96GB of fast, wide bus memory.

I think the issue isn't in the 128gb but 8 sticks, though even desktops usually don't take 8 sticks. Overall though it is likely an error in display.

Also, what constitutes a "desktop"? Like is minipc a desktop? is a laptop with a desktop processor a desktop?


This is likely the SIXUNITED AXB35-02 Mini-PC which leaks says has 8 modules. Though it currently has bios issues that lead to lower performance so actual performance once fixed may be even higher.

[wvdschel]

I think the issue isn't in the 128gb but 8 sticks

I think many of these devices will not have removable memory devices. As far as I know only soldered and CAMM memory modules can support these kinds of speeds.

It's not unlikely manufacturers opt for more smaller soldered modules to get to 256-bit width.