The fact that Facebook has moved to Meta in order to position itself for the Metaverse only fuels the fact that the industry is rapidly moving towards a next-generation Virtual Reality world where one must be digitally required. everyone . But it will require more computing power and that’s where AMD comes in, as what appears to be a new VR processor has been leaked. It’s like that AMD Mero.
A new leak reveals something really interesting that has to do with AMD and a company largely dedicated to virtual reality. And it would seem that those of Lisa Su have teamed up with Magic Leap to design and change the industry thanks to glasses with an AMD SoC that promises a lot.
AMD Mero, the revolution that prepares Virtual Reality
There is little data as such and above all quite brief, an image where we see the first details of this SoC that will mount the Magic Leap Demophon system, of which we only know that it could be goggles virtual reality as such.
And it’s not clear what particular industry they’re going to focus on or if Magic Leap intends to revolutionize any one in particular.
Why do we say that? Well, because the SoC is categorized for mobile devices, it could mean that it would unify its power to that of a smartphone for a series of cloud services that would introduce us to the Metaverse and anywhere else.
But this is just pure speculation at the moment, what we do know is that the leak reveals that the SoC will include a monolithic CPU which will include 8 semi-custom cores from AMD which is rumored to arrive with the Zen 2 architecture with an interesting surprise.
Integrated graphics card based on RDNA 2
Well yes, just like in Steam Deck, AMD’s SoC could repeat the winning formula by equipping it with an RDNA 2 iGPU. Here we have to stop for a moment, because it is possible that the 8 cores already mentioned are in fact 4 cores (8 threads) for CPU and 4 CUs for the iGPU, therefore, the reading is not quite correct, or at least it is speculated.
What is confirmed is the use of Android 10 as the key operating system, which would be supported by 1 GB of memory and a screen with a resolution of 720 x 920 pixels.
These data are not really shocking, far from it, but at the same time it is speculated that this RAM would not be read well since the resolution is not low as such and would require at least double this amount and that at the same time it would be shared between the processor cores and the iGPU.
And it is that the latest AMD Mero leaks claim that it is essentially a custom Van Gogh chip that could have allowed more PCIe lanes.
AMD Mero
Magic Leap Demophon
Probably for their AR headset pic.twitter.com/VHgbIBx1VF
— _rogame (@_rogame) April 30, 2022
The Basemark results would define it that way, since this SoC is already faster than a Renoir APU with Vega iGPU giving a score of no less than 12,570 points.
In short, it’s the same SoC that Steam Deck would use except without as many restrictions and therefore it could perform much better, but at the moment it’s just a prototype that needs further development.
