It's been almost a month since AMD unveiled its Zen 5 processor architecture and new range of Ryzen CPUs at Computex 2024. Still, with no products on retailers' shelves just yet, we've not had word on how much better the new design is than its predecessor, Zen 4. However, one lucky person has managed to get their hands on an engineering laptop sample with a Strix Point APU and run a full gamut of in-depth architecture tests on it.
The findings were posted by David Huang on his blog and before going any further into what he discovered, it's worth noting the laptop used isn't a retail version, so the figures could well change once vendors officially launch their Zen 5-powered models. Unlike the desktop Ryzen processors, Strix Point is a monolithic chip—i.e. A single piece of silicon that contains the CPU cores, GPU, memory controllers, NPU, etc.
