AMD May Bring Zen 6 APUs to Desktop for Leaner Gaming Systems

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A new rumor from the YouTube channel Moore's Law is Dead claims AMD will bring at least some of its next-generation Zen 6 APUs to desktop. Codenamed Medusa Point, these chips would feature Zen 6 CPU cores and several AMD Radeon GPU cores, giving them strong gaming performance. It'd be like a console or handheld PC, but for Windows desktops.

"AMD Zen 6 Medusa 1 and Bumblebee are coming to AM5," Moore's Law is Dead said in a conversation with another channel called The Phawx. They went on to claim that the Medusa 1 would be a Zen 6 CPU and have eight RDNA 4m Compute Units, which would be much faster than the 8 RDNA 2 units in the original Steam Deck, but perhaps not as quick as the 12 RDNA 3 Compute Units in other AMD APUs, like the newer Ryzen Z1 Extreme.

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