[brucethemoose2]

Oh... That is disappointing.

I was hoping Strix Halo would be a big, power efficient, Apple M-esque SoC with a wide iGPU.

The 16x Zen 5 cores (with no efficiency cores) and the "sharing" of the desktop architecture suggest its actually a Dragon Ridge 7045HX replacement. So a power hungry CPU for 17" desktop replacement laptops you can basically only use while plugged in... That has a large IGP for some reason? That doesn't make much sense, as you mind as well use the dGPU.

[wmf]

Desktop Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) is 128-bit while other rumors said Strix Halo is 256-bit so if that's true they aren't the same. I suspect there will be three or four different laptop Zen 5s (baby, regular, halo, and desknote) so this article is probably just incomplete.

[brucethemoose2]

But the Zen 5 CCDs will presumably be the same.

If AMD used a single Zen 5C or 4C CCD, I would be more optimistic... Even though AMD didn't differentiate the cores, the 4000 series and 5000 seres were essentially Zen 2C and Zen 3C. But 2x Zen 5 CCDs suggest they are going for all out performance.

[hocuspocus]

> That has a large IGP for some reason? That doesn't make much sense, as you mind as well use the dGPU.

But maybe the goal is to finally offer an H class SoC that doesn't need a dGPU?

RDNA 3.5 with up to 40 CU should be well into Apple SoC Pro/Max territory.

[brucethemoose2]

But low power/idle efficiency will be awful using the desktop Zen 5 CCDs, if they are anything like the 7000 series.

They are optimized for high clocks, and the interconnect burns tons of power, especially with 2 CCDs (which reach into each other's L3 over the link).