AMD Strix Halo processors have been spotted on Geekbench’s scoreboards, indicating a whopping 5.36GHz clock. This APU is expected to deliver good graphics performance thanks to its higher GPU compute unit count.
Spotted among Geekbench 5’s test results, the listing suggests the chip features eight cores – probably Zen 5 – and 16 threads clocked at an impressive 5.36GHz frequency. That said, the CPU didn’t run at its max frequency, hovering between 3.4 and 4.8GHz. If these Strix Halo APUs manage to reach their advertised speed, they will be among the highest-clocked mobile chips.
Will this translate to higher real-world performance? Chances are, yes. However, for now, the results seem to contradict each other as one shows greater scores than the other. That said, the result most likely to be correct is the one showing 2,099 points in single-core and 13,993 points in multi-core. This puts it above the Ryzen 7 8845H – found on the Cybertruck PC – which carries eight Zen 4 cores with a 5.1GHz boost clock.
Though nice, this is not the fastest chip AMD will launch in its Strix Halo range, as it’s planning 12 and 16-core models supporting up to 8,000MT/s LPDDR5x RAM. Team Red may also offer a six-core variant, but nothing’s official yet. These processors should come packed with up to 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units on top of one or two CCDs (Core Chiplet Die), each packing up to eight cores and 8MB of L2 cache. Much like Ryzen 9000, efficiency is the name of the game, as TDP ranges from 45W to 120W.
This engineering sample was apparently used on an HP laptop running Ubuntu 24 operating system. So, results may improve as all bugs get ironed out for the official release. In the meantime, as usual, take all the above with a grain of salt.