The mainstream mobile segment will be more versatile than ever with both 28W and high-power 45W Zen 6 mobile chips.
NBD Shipping Manifest Reveals Medusa Point Will be Available in Both 28W and 45W Variants
The new leaked NBD shipping manifest just revealed that Medusa Point will be available in two variants based on the TDP rating. We previously saw Medusa Point boasting 45W TDP in an NBD shipment manifest, but the latest one confirmed that AMD isn't ditching the 28W variants at all. In fact, it's going to be the direct successor to the Krackan Point chips, which boast 28W TDP out of the box.
The leaker @Olrak29_ posted a screenshot of the shipping log, confirming "High-TDP" and "Low-TDP" Medusa Point SKUs. Moreover, the log also reinstated that the CPUs will utilize the newer FP10 socket. The current Zen 5-based Strix/Krackan Point uses the smaller FP8 socket, and AMD will now be transitioning to a newer one, which is going to be 6% bigger than FP8, but will be significantly smaller than the FP11 used by Strix Halo in size.
AMD appears to be aiming for a big jump in performance, and you might know, the top-of-the-line Zen 6 Medusa Point offerings are reportedly bringing up to 22 cores through a combination of 12 Zen 6 cores through dedicated CCD + 4 Classic + 4 Dense + 2 Low Power Cores. The Ryzen 5 and 7 series will be limited to a 4C+4D+2LP configuration as per previous reports, but will have the same 8 Compute Units for the iGPU based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture.
We have already talked about the monolithic design of Medusa Point several times before, but this is the first time we have heard about the High and Low TDP variants. This makes sense since the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 series won't need that much power to begin with and are likely going to be classified under the Low-TDP family.
A Quick Recap on Medusa Point:
- Architecture: Zen 6
- Cores: 10-22 Cores
- TDP: 45W, 28W
- iGPU: RDNA 3.5, 8 Compute Units
- Socket: FP10
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