The codenames for the APUs that will power the PlayStation 6 and the PlayStation handheld have been revealed by prominent leakers, effectively confirming that another leaked APU from AMD will power the next-generation Xbox console.
Following the release of a new video providing some new information on the leaked AMD Zen 6 Magnus APU, Moore's Law Is Dead provided an update on the APU codenames for next-generation systems that have been circulating online in the past few days, revealing that Orion is the codename for the APU that will power the PlayStation 6 and Canis is the codename of the APU that will power the new PlayStation handheld. While no other known leaker confirmed if Orion is indeed the APU of the next-generation console by Sony, known AMD leaker Kepler L2 confirmed that Canis is indeed the APU of the PlayStation handheld, adding that it has a monolithic design.
As there were some doubts regarding the Magnus APU being the PlayStation 6 APU, now that it is known that Orion will be the system's APU, the AMD Zen 6 APU leaked earlier this month has been confirmed to be the one that will power the next-generation Xbox. In the video mentioned above, Moore's Law is Dead revealed some additional details on the APU, which will have a 3nm RDNA "AT2" GPU die, can go up to 70 CU, but it is expected to get 68 CU yields, and it will have a 192-bit memory bus, and not a 384-bit bus as previously revealed. Looking at the leaked specs, AMD leaker Kepler L2 speculates Microsoft may use a split memory model again, as a 192-bit bus is considered too little to feed both CPU and GPU.
With the first information on the PlayStation 6 and the next-generation Xbox leaking online, it will likely not take much longer to learn more about what the two systems will be capable of. With machine learning having made its proper debut in the console space with the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaler, it will be very interesting to see what these systems will offer besides better specs than their predecessors.
Follow Wccftech on Google to get more of our news coverage in your feeds.
