[torrance]

These results are promising and hopefully carry over to the upcoming Strix Halo which I’m eagerly awaiting. With a rumoured 40 compute cores and performance on par with a low power (<95W) mobile RTX4070, it would make an exciting small form gaming box.

[jauntywundrkind]

I've been super excited for Strix Halo, but I'm also nervous. Strix Halo is a multi-chip design, and I'm pretty nervous about whether AMD can pull it off in a mobile form factor, while still being a good mobile chip.

Strix Point can be brought down to 15W and still do awesome. And go up to 55W+ and be fine. Nice idles. But it's monolithic, and I'm not sure if AMD & TSMC are really making that power penalty of multichip go down enough.

[luyu_wu]

Very valid concerns! AMD's current die-to-die interconnects have some pretty abysmal energy/bit. Really hope they can pull off something similar to Intel's EMIB maybe?

[wtallis]

The rumors saying Strix Halo will be a multi-chip product are saying it's re-using the existing Zen5 CPU chiplets from the desktop and server parts and just replacing the IO die with one that has a vastly larger iGPU and double the DRAM controllers. So they might be able to save a bit of power with more advanced packaging that puts the chiplets right next to each other, but it'll still be the same IF links that are power-hungry on the desktop parts.

[_cenw]

The 7945HX3D needs 55W minimum, if that's any indicator.

[KingOfCoders]

I hope Strix Halo gets a desktop motherboard (no socket :-( for the memory bandwidth for faster compiles (Go). That or a 9950X3D (like the 7950X3D).

[naoru]

Me too. There's at least one manufacturer who makes pretty sweet mini-ITX motherboard with R9 7945HX, I hope they will follow up with Strix Halo once it's released.

[layer8]

That kind of performance will still require significant cooling, which if you want it to be quiet is helped by a larger box.