In these years, what is the configuration of a low-budget mainstream desktop computer host for civilian players?
Intel i5 12400F CPU、B760 主板、NVIDIA RTX 4060 显卡、双 8G DDR4 内存、1T 固态硬盘的组合，想必相当具有代表性了吧！
But after carefully breaking it down, it is not difficult to find that this set of less than 4500 yuan price configuration, only the graphics card costs more than 2000 yuan, accounting for almost half of the cost of the whole machine.
You know, compared to the 12400F and B760 motherboards, which have moved away from the entry-level label, the RTX 4060 is the lowest-end model of the RTX 40 series graphics cards you can buy.
The higher you go, the larger the cost of graphics cards.
Should I say it or not, the whole PC building circle is indeed a bit bitter graphics cards (especially NVIDIA graphics cards) for a long time!
Well, the pressure came to AMD GPUs in an instant......
From the original 5600G CPU to play Tencent's family bucket core display, to the desktop Ryzen 8700G and mobile Ryzen 7000 series APU, AMD has completely become the hope of the whole village to replace the independent graphics card with the core display.
And the phrase "nuclear display and play 3A" in our mouth seems to be becoming a reality step by step.
Take the upcoming Ryzen AI 300 series Radenon 890M GPU as an example, it already has the strength of the GTX 1650 and 1060 GPUs for hard desktop entry.
1080P picture quality, special effects are lowered, and it is not impossible to play some 3A masterpieces smoothly.
Of course, AMD's ambitions for its APUs may be much more than that.
Just recently, foreign media revealed that AMD is preparing a new high-end APU codenamed Strix Halo, and the corresponding figure (abbreviated as STXH) has appeared in the latest AMD Ryzen AI software.
Source: videocardz
According to the reveal, the Strix Halo CPU section will be equipped with 16 Zen 5 cores (pure large cores), while the core graphics part will be based on the latest RDNA3.5 architecture with up to 40 CU units.
This GPU size is 3.3 times larger than the mobile Ryzen 7000 series' most powerful 780M (12 CU units), and 150% higher than the 16 CU 890M.
No, it can't be increased by two or three times at every turn, AMD is directly squeezing out the toothpaste tube at the bottom of the pressure box?
Not long after the news was released, foreign media leaked information about the Strix Halo APU packaging and chip size again.
As you can see from the graph, it consists of 2 Zen 5 CCDs (CPU cores) and 1 GCD (GPU cores), and the entire APU core area comes to 439mm², which is quite huge!
Source: videocardz
The most conspicuous of these is the 307mm² GPU core, which occupies 70% of the APU core area.
Properly buy a core graphics card and get a CPU free!
For reference, the desktop version of the RTX 4060 AD-107 has a core area of only 156 mm².
Coming to the part we are more concerned about, the Strix Halo in the leak contains at least three different design power versions of 55W, 85 W, and 120W.
来源:Sam Jiun-Wei Hu
Of course, considering the power consumption of the system memory, the design power consumption of the whole machine should be correspondingly higher.
As for performance, although there is no clear data, in the leaked documents, AMD compares the Strix Halo to the Inte CPU + 80W power mobile version of the RTX 4070.
来源:Sam Jiun-Wei Hu
Does this mean that the Strix Halo GPU has the power to call the 80W power mobile version of the RTX 4070?
Let's take a rough analysis, the 890M core graphics card ran a 60W mobile RTX 3050-level performance with 16 CU units.
The Strix Halo GPU is first 2.5 times better than the 890M in terms of physical specifications, and AMD has further polished the RDNA3.5 architecture to directly and boldly predict the performance rounded up to 3 times that of the 890M!
Not to mention, you can't really ignore the performance of the 60W mobile RTX 3050, but on this basis*3, this has to be taken seriously.
Source: videocardz
Compared to the mobile version of the RTX 4070, it makes sense that AMD may not be kidding us!
Finally, there is the release date of Strix Halo, which is currently likely to be in 2025.
Source: videocardz
So the question is, how many people will consider its pricing?