AMD Strix Halo makes Geekbench debut with 8-core Zen 5 CPU
AMD's Strix Point-based Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 are slated to debut next week on July 28. Other Strix Point SKUs are slated to follow suit later this year or at CES 2025. Meanwhile, its successor, Strix Halo, isn't scheduled to drop until next year. A set of Geekbench 5.4.1 listings now give us a glimpse at a Strix Halo CPU.
An 8-core, 16-thread has shown up on the benchmarking platform under the "AMD Eng Sample: 100-000001422-31_N" monicker. X leaker HXL confirms this is Strix Halo by looking at its CPU ID (B70F00). It powers an unreleased HP laptop with 32 GB of RAM.
The mystery Strix Halo CPU scores 2,083 and 7,924 in one Geekbench run and 2,099 and 13,993 in a subsequent one. There are two other runs with scores of 2,177/5477 and 2,162/5,643. As expected, this lags behind Strix Point, but that is to be expected from an engineering sample. Furthermore, a closer look at Geekbench's frequency chart suggests the CPU is throttling heavily.
This Strix Halo CPU has 8 core and 16 threads with a single-core boost of 5.36 GHz. This is very likely a mid-range SKU because the top-spec Strix Halo SKU is tipped to feature a 16-core CPU, complete with Zen 5 CPU cores and a RDNA 3.5 iGPU. Unlike Strix Point, it will be all Zen 5 cores unlike Strix point, which mixes Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores.
