Details of AMD's next-generation Ryzen Z2 series of APUs for handhelds have apparently leaked. Shared by reliable hardware leaker and enthusiast Golden Pig Upgrade Pack at Bilibili, the Ryzen Z2 lineup will be segmented into three different products: Ryzen Z2 Extreme, Ryzen Z2, and Ryzen Z2G. Moreover, if the leak is correct, AMD will significantly beef up the iGPU in these APUs, each with 12 Compute Units (CUs) — though the GPU and CPU architectures vary.
The leaker also claims AMD was allegedly planning a 16 CU equipped Ryzen Z2 Extreme X, but that design has been canned. There's a reasonable chance that power constraints prevented anything more than a 12 CU configuration from showing much in the way of performance gains. As it stands, AMD is hard at work developing its Ryzen Z2 family, with the new chips set to arrive next year.
According to the leak, the flagship Ryzen Z2 Extreme will be based on Strix Point silicon, featuring a 12 CU graphics solution (Radeon 880M) with the RDNA 3.5 architecture. This configuration would resemble the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 with eight CPU cores: three Zen 5 and five Zen 5c. It would also come with 16MB of L3 cache alongside 8MB of L2 cache, 1MB per core.
