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Gururu Be nice if its available by Xmas 2027, about the time I will be upgrading and hopefully the fastest CPUs have been christened. Reply
usertests Medusa Point (MDS1) is expected to be the successor to 8-core Krackan Point. The true successor to Strix Point would be "Medusa Halo Mini" (with ~14 cores and 24 CUs of RDNA5). Don't know about the L3 cache, but the 2 GHz anomaly could be caused by new "LP" cores. It probably has "RDNA4m" graphics for full speed FSR4 FP8/WMMA. Reply
GenericUser2001 Most of the rumors are pointing at Medusa Point having 4+4c Zen 6 cores, and then 2 lp cores off on their own for idle/background stuff type tasks. Which makes those multi-thread benches look even better; the lp cores would not really be used in a bench, so its 4+4c Zen6 handily outperforming 4+6c Zen 5. Reply
usertests GenericUser2001 said: the lp cores would not really be used in a bench, so its 4+4c Zen6 handily outperforming 4+6c Zen 5. That might have been true of Meteor Lake where it was hard to even get the LPE cores to be used (not sure if that behavior changed with updates), but not true of later chips. Benchmarks could be using these LP cores. However, it's possible that two LP cores together don't even equate to 1 classic core's worth of performance when under heavy load, if their max turbo is somewhere around 2-3 GHz. And Medusa Point outperforming Strix Point 370 is definitely a nice result, when it is only the Krackan Point replacement. Reply
GenericUser2001 Yeah, it will be interesting to see exactly how AMD's implementation of LP cores works with Zen 6, and how much they get used. Reply
thisisaname Will memory be affordable by the time this comes out? Reply
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