A Gorgon Point SKU just appeared out of nowhere, confirming the previously leaked specifications, including core clocks and iGPU.
Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Benchmarked on SiSoftware; Confirms 12-core/24-thread Config, 5.25 GHz Boost Clock, and Radeon 890M iGPU
If you remember, in June this year, an NBD shipping manifest leaked some info on the upcoming Strix Point Refresh, aka AMD Gorgon Point SKUs. The Gorgon Point isn't based on a new architecture and will be based on Zen 5, bringing slightly better specifications as we saw a few months back. Today, we just saw one of those SKUs benchmarked on the SiSoftware platform, confirming the SKU name and some of its specifications.
The leaker @momomo_us spotted the page on SiSoftware Ranker, explicitly listing it with the model name "Ryzen AI 9 HX 470", which is a refresh of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 from the Strix Point family. The new processor boasts the same Zen 5 architecture, but slightly higher core clocks with up to 5.25 GHz boost clock vs 5.1 GHz on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. The base clock for the Zen 5 cores is unchanged, and it will have the same 2.0 GHz base clock.
The core configuration will be 12-core/24-thread, and it will have the same Radeon 890M iGPU based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture. It's unclear what the max clock speed of the Radeon 890M on this SKU will be, but we expect some change on this as well. This sample was deployed in an HP Elitebook X G2a 14-inch notebook, as can be seen from the entries, and the current lineup offers Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU.
With the official launch of Gorgon Point in the near future, we expect the lineup to be upgraded with newer APUs, offering slightly better performance out of the box. One thing that appears to be totally new in the specs is the L3 cache, which is apparently 3x 16 MB on the newer SKU. AMD hasn't confirmed these specs, so take these with a grain of salt.
The Gorgon Point Ryzen AI 400 series will have successors to the current Krackan Point chips, and will be categorized under "Gorgon Point" instead of two different families. The SKUs will be available in as low as 4-core/8-thread configuration, expanding the lineup even further. We expect AMD to launch the new series at the beginning of next year, but AMD hasn't officially announced the launch date.
News Source: SiSoftware
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