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JEMC said:

I'm really curious to see how the Stric Halo performs. With those 40 CUs it beats the 7600 and the PS5 GPU, albeit with the problem of running LPDDR5 instead of GDDR6 and at an unknown frequency, and so it could be a perfect chip to power a HTPC with some good enough gaming capabilities.

Heck, if Valve wants to give it a second chance, they could use this to give their Steam Machines a second chance. Use the Deck to play on the go and then turn this thing once at home, let it sync your progress, and you're ready to keep playing on your TV or monitor.

Quad-channel (256bit) LPDDR5-8000, which is what AMD advertises for the chip, would result in 256GB/s bandwidth, just slightly lower than the 288GB/s of the RX 7600(XT) and RTX 4060Ti desktop GPUs and same as the mobile 4070 - though of course it has to share it's bandwidth with the CPU, so effectively it should be somewhat lower, more comparable to the mobile 4060's 224GB/s. On the other hand the MALL cache should effectively work like infinity cache, which would certainly alleviate any bandwidth-related issues.

Since the clock speeds of the Strix Halo GPU are probably more in line with the mobile GPUs (and probably even than closer to Max-Q level), I'd say it has enough bandwidth - if laptop manufacturers don't cheap out too much on the memory that is! LPDDR5-7200 would result in a total bandwidth of 230GB/s, which could still be okay, but with LPDDR5-6400 we'd drop down to 205GB/s, at which point it will become very inadequate at best.

This all of course if the memory is quad-channel or 256bit, if the manufacturers cheap out here (which I really hope AMD forbids for those chips) then we'll get a chip that is totally choked by it's memory interface.

What I'm also interested in is what kind of cooler they will use to cool a 120W APU chip in a laptop environment.