An engineering sample of a Zen 5 Strix Point CPU has made an appearance on Geekbench 6. Discovered by @haurkaze5719 on X (formerly Twitter), the CPU features 12 cores, 16MB of L3 cache, and a 28W TDP. Strix Point is the codename for AMD's upcoming Zen 5-based Ryzen mobile processors.
Unfortunately, the benchmark results on Geekbench 6 don't show us the chip's full potential. In fact, its performance is drastically lower than today's Ryzen 8000 mobile processors, likely due to the fact that it's an engineering sample. The CPU only achieves a multi-core score of 8,016 points and a single-core score of 1,217 points. By comparison, a six-core Ryzen 5 8640U utilizing AMD's Zen 4 architecture archives well over 8,500 points in the multi-core test and over 2,000 points in the single-core test, in most cases.
