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A lot of people in the tech industry are very excited about AMD’s new Strix Point APUs. The chips, which are set to come out in 2024³³, are said to have a hybrid architecture with both large and small CPU cores. The most interesting thing about these chips is their built-in GPU (iGPU), which might be able to compete with separate, lower-end graphics cards²³.
The APUs from Strix
The Zen 5, RDNA 3+, and XDNA 2 processing will all be nice in the Strix Point APUs. The most powerful Strix Point APU will have 16 cores. It is said that 8 of them will be “big cores,” which are Zen 5 cores designed for performance, and 8 will be “small cores,” which are Zen 4D cores (basically Zen 4 stripped down, the current generation’s architecture, with a focus on much lower power consumption)².
What could happen to GPUs?
It is thought that the Strix Point’s iGPU will have 8 WorkGroup Processors (WGPs) and a clock speed of more than 3GHz³. It looks like this will be built on an RDNA 3+ (refresh) architecture, which has a lot of power for built-in graphics². This might mean that low-end discrete GPUs are no longer needed³.
What It Means for NVIDIA
This new development could be a big problem for NVIDIA, which makes a lot of GPUs⁴. It might be less necessary to buy separate GPUs if the Strix Point APUs can perform as well as discrete GPUs.
Bottom Line
There has been a big change in the tech industry with the Strix Point APUs. They might change the GPU market if they are able to compete with discrete GPUs. Things like this should be taken with a grain of salt until the Strix Point APUs are officially released and their performance can be tested.
