Ryzen 7000 APU are Going Straight to RDNA 3!

Let’s get started with AMD. ever since the launch of Ryzen CPU’s I’ve been personally super interested in their integrated graphics. It started with the 2200 and 2400G that went up to 4 CPU cores, and up to 11 Vega cores. Then we had the 3200 and 3400G which had the same setup. Now, for some reason, past that with the 4000g series and 5000g series of chips, the Vega graphics were maxed out at 8 compute units. I mean sure, they were still better because of the super high clock speed, but still, I was a little disappointed that they dropped the 11 Vega core versions.

Anyways, Why am I talking about this? Well, now that its the end of vega graphics for APU’s we’ve been waiting for AMD to drop their RDNA-based ones. So far, with all the information that was dug up through drivers and leaks, we thought that the first to pop up would be with RDNA 2. I mean the steam deck got it, the consoles got it, so it would make sense.

But it looks like AMD is going to go straight to RDNA 3 here. Not only that, but the specs look pretty good! This information comes from Kepler over on Twitter, a reputable source in data scavenging, and he says that Phoenix, the codename for the next-gen APU, will be sporting RDNA 3 graphics. Now, this breaks the roadmap we’ve had for years now but it's still expected that it would feature a Zen 4 CPU. It could be Zen 3+ Since I mean the new 6000 series laptop chips are compatible with DDR5 memory, and APU’s are usually just laptop chips with a higher TDP, so it could be either but im leaning on Zen 4.

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