‘Screenshots show AMD Ryzen 8000 apu with hybrid Zen 5 architecture’

Two alleged screenshots have surfaced of what appear to be CPU-Z and HWiNFO tests of an AMD Ryzen 8000 apu. These would be engineering samples of the mobile Strix Point processor with a hybrid architecture with Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores.

According to the screenshots, published by the relatively unknown Performance databases, AMD’s unannounced APU has a 45W TDP. Further concludes VideoCardz that the specifications refer to four Zen 5 cores and eight Zen 5c cores, with eight and sixteen threads respectively. Each of the four Zen 5 cores has access to 1MB of L2 cache memory, according to the screenshots, while the Zen 5c cores may share two 1MB L2 caches.

The information should be taken with a grain of salt, as it is not clear how the linked platform obtained the screenshots. The software used does not recognize all specifications, which is evident from the fact that the standard clock frequency of the laptop chip is 8.8GHz, which is extremely unlikely.

On the other hand, it is not the first time that a hybrid architecture for the Strix Point generation of APUs has been discussed. Benchmarks have appeared before of what appeared to be a laptop processor with four Zen 5 cores and eight Zen 5c cores. In theory, these cores effectively serve as performance and energy efficient cores respectively, as the c-series architectures are intended to be more compact, less performance-oriented cores. Intel has been using such a hybrid architecture for some time.

Source: Performance databases