AMD Strix Halo and Strix Point mobile processors with Zen 5 cores officially confirmed in latest ROCm update

In mid-2023 Moore’s Law Is Dead leaked a hefty amount of specs for the Strix Point and Strix Halo mobile platforms. These two lineups are now official as they appear in the latest ROCm lines of code. Well, almost. MLID’s Strix Point only appears as STRIX1 or simply Strix with the corresponding “gfx1150” denomination, while “gfx1151” is associated with Strix Halo.

AMD announced that the first Zen 5 processors should launch later this year, most likely this summer for desktops. MLID’s sources suggest that the Strix Point mobile processor could launch in late 2024 as the Ryzen 8050 lineup. These models would get a maximum of 12 cores combining 4x full Zen 5 cores and 8x smaller Zen 5c cores with a maximum TDP of 54 W. The iGPU side would also get an upgrade, featuring up to 16 CUs with RDNA 3.5 architecture. Apparently Strix Point marks the last monolithic chip architecture for AMD’s processors.

Strix Halo, on the other hand, would represent the first multi chiplet mobile processor, just like Fire Range would be the first desktop multi chiplet processor. These mobile APUs will target high-end desktop-replacement laptops and mini PCs, featuring 16 full Zen 5 cores and an impressive 40 CU RDNA 3.5 iGPU that is believed to perform similar to the RX 7600 XT. Even though it comes with improved cores, the iGPU may not be able to outperform the RX 7600 XT since the whole APU may be limited to 120 W TDP.

Both Strix Point and Strix Halo are built on TSMC’s 4 nm nodes and also include an improved XDNA2 NPU with speeds of 40-50 TOPS, or around 4 times higher AI processing power compared to the Ryzen 7040 Phoenix series. Strix Halo may have been pushed to early 2025 according to MLID, and it should be regarded as AMD’s true competitor against the Apple M processors.