If that headline leaves you questioning what Phoenix and Dragon Vary are, let’s get you in control first. Phoenix, apparently also referred to as Phoenix Level (to not be confused with the sport of the identical title), is the codename for AMD’s future cellular CPUs primarily based on the Zen 4 structure. They’re going to embrace Zen 4 CPU cores together with DDR5 reminiscence, PCIe 5.0 assist, and highly effective built-in graphics primarily based on RDNA 3.
All the above was basically confirmed by a brand new leak from RedGamingTech—assuming the leak is correct, anyway. In a YouTube video, embedded above, Paul from RedGamingTech lays out his predictions for AMD’s Phoenix and Dragon Vary processors. Regardless of the latter being the sooner chips, it is positively Phoenix that’s the extra fascinating product household.
The slide above, taken from RedGamingTech’s video, clearly lays out his expectations for Phoenix. On the top-end, he expects the Ryzen 9 7980HS to have eight Zen 4 CPU cores and 6 RDNA 3 WGPs, which comes out to 1536 shaders—completely large for an built-in GPU. General, when it comes to specs, they’ll basically be just like the extant “Rembrandt” processors that compose the Ryzen 6000 Collection cellular household, simply upgraded with Zen 4 and RDNA 3.
Nonetheless, that ignores doubtlessly big adjustments in packaging and construction. Rembrandt is a monolithic die, however Phoenix will as an alternative apparently be a chiplet-based design, with separate bodily chips performing the processors’ varied capabilities. As you may see within the mockup above, it’s predicted that, not like extant Ryzen processors, the CPU cores and I/O will share a die. In the meantime, there’ll supposedly be separate cube for graphics, the reminiscence controller and system-level cache shared by CPU and GPU.
Together with that mockup, he additionally shared another “low-confidence” details about Phoenix. One supply claims that the Phoenix iGPU has some measure of Infinity Cache onboard; for our half, we suspect that is most likely a misunderstanding of the GPU’s capacity to entry a system-level cache (a lot as Intel’s IGPUs can do.) Alternatively, it has been mentioned prior to now that Phoenix could include 3D V-Cache, so maybe there will probably be fashions that ship with 3D V-Cache serving as Infinity Cache for the built-in RDNA 3 GPU.
In the meantime, it looks like Dragon Vary will basically be a clock-tuned variant of Raphael, as we talked about above. That is in direct response to Intel’s Alder Lake HX processors which are likewise clock-tuned variants of the ADL desktop silicon. Identical to Raphael, Dragon Vary will scale as much as 16 cores, though clock charges will most likely fluctuate drastically between laptop computer distributors and fashions.
Raphael features a small GPU for fundamental graphics, and thus Dragon Vary doubtless will too. It will likely be fascinating to see if AMD makes use of it for switchable graphics the best way Intel does, or if the Dragon Vary IGP will merely be disabled. Both manner, it is encouraging to see AMD harmonizing its architectures throughout its product stack as an alternative of constructing APUs wait a technology to get the newest CPU and GPU expertise.
