The real excitement surrounds the ‘Strix Point Halo’ APU. AMD is making bold claims about its performance, suggesting that it could rival NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q laptop graphics card, all while operating within a 90W power envelope. This would be a significant achievement for integrated graphics in laptop processors.
What sets the Strix Point Halo apart is its innovative chiplet architecture. AMD has divided the APU into separate ‘chiplets’ on the die. This design enables the processor to house 16 Zen 5 cores, a substantial 64MB of L3 cache memory, and an impressive 40 RDNA 3+ graphics cores.
