Most of the processors we’ve seen in recent months bring a host of changes to the market that offer users the ability to mount high-performance configurations, which companies know isn’t what everyone is looking for. This is why we can find other families of processors that aim to offer more stringent performance in certain cases, and of AMD It looks like they’re starting to test how their new “Krackan Point» geared for general-purpose portable devices.
From AMD they are very clear about what they want to do as a company, and at the level of processors they have a fairly wide playing field, since they have a large number of ranges that allow the brand to position itself at a strategic point to reach all consumers regardless of their budget, mainly thanks to the fact that they present new chips with very varied performances, which do not leave aside the needs of their users.
A processor intended for more conventional computers
We know more and more details about the new processors that AMD plans to launch for devices that will offer configurations that can be found around 1000 $ or less, and a reference APUs that would integrate these computers. And what appears to be a technical sample (AMD 100-000000713-21_N) of the next family of RyzenTHE “Krackan Point“, which will bring the Ryzen AI 7 and Ryzen AI 5 models with various configurations, but in this case the chip has 8 cores, 16 threads and a clock speed of 3.95 GHz.
This sample appeared in Openbenchmarking and shows us, in addition to what this chip includes, a series of additional aspects such as its compatibility with higher memory speeds, and in the test it appears that the platform worked with 32 GB memory LPDDR5X 8000 MT /s. The scores it offers show that at the moment it has very similar performance to what can be found in a Ryzen 7 7840HS, but given that it is an engineering sample it It is likely that the final result will be much higher.
Many users indicate that due to the specifications of this series of processors they could be the successors of what we call today APU has gamethat is to say those which can integrate certain computers or portable consoles and which have fairly good performance. The main reason why this is said is due to the base configuration they may have, which could be 4x Zen5 + 4x Zen5c, as well as the iGPU, which as we well know would be based on the architecture RDNA 3.5 and could incorporate 8 cores. something that would represent a pretty big jump from previous models.
In itself, we must take into account that it is a processor oriented for configurations under 1000$, as we indicated previously, it would therefore adapt perfectly to this type of devices (Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally…).
