AMD Zen 5 Ryzen 8000 Strix Point APUs to sport hybrid, big.LITTLE-esque CPU architecture, will be fabbed on TSMC 3 nm process

[Redaktion]

AMD could be introducing its own big.LITTLE-esque hybrid CPU architecture in 2024. Codenamed Strix Point, these will be Zen 5 Ryzen 8000 APUs fabbed on TSMC's 3 nm process. Not much information is available about Strix Point at the moment considering we are still three years away from launch. However, the grapevine is that AMD has fixed Strix Point's iGPU performance target and has incorporated "bigger changes" to the memory subsystem.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Zen-5-Ryzen-8000-Strix-Point-APUs-to-sport-hybrid-big-LITTLE-esque-CPU-architecture-will-be-fabbed-on-TSMC-3-nm-process.535951.0.html

[Lucas]

Where did Ryzen 6000 and 7000 go? Are we that far in the future? The shortages did not even end yet and it's already being planned that far? I would like for people to be able to buy GPUs first and then we ca talk about the next 3 iterations on AMD CPUs, unless it's a step up from 5000 to 8000..

[Anonymousgg]

This is too far out from now to be believable or hypeworthy. I expect 12-big-core APUs from AMD by that point, not counting a 12-core Zen 4 CPU with added iGPU.

If it is real, AMD benefits from Intel going first and getting the Windows OS prepared for hybrid/heterogeneous architectures.

Having less small x86 cores than big x86 cores seems weird. How about a normal x86 cluster + a smaller ARM cluster? Project Skybridge resurrected.

[Jesse]

Man, I can't wait to buy one of these AMD Strix Point Smelsh Gerf XP8950-21x CPUs.

Of course, by the time they are available, Intel will have their own Intel Core i9-11385Gerp7xpq Slaff CPU out. 

And nobody knows which will be coming in second to Apple's M3.

[ariliquin]

LOL, so true, this made me laugh, thanks :)

[Alan Saldanha]

why are they following Intel always? No creativity?

[Anonymousgg]

why are they following Intel always? No creativity?

1. It's a rumor about a product that won't be out for years. Not confirmed.
2. Intel just copied what Arm devices have been doing for years.
3. AMD is ahead. Intel is the follower now.