Summary
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AMD may soon release a budget GPU with RDNA 3.5 graphics.
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The GFX 11.5.3 firmware files suggest a potential new GPU/APU under RDNA 3.5 architecture.
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This release timing is unusual, possibly indicating on a new EPU or budget graphics card.
We like the budget GPU, and it seems that AMD is focusing on these days. Now, the evidence has come to light that so far another AMD budget can come to GPU, and it may be slightly on an old side.
A recent batch of AMD GPU firmware files has been merged into the main Linux firmware repository, indicating imminent arrival of new hardware with the company’s RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics. This RDNA 4 was already released after the first batch of GPU, Mind U, so it is not the latest and largest from AMD. The newlymade firmware enables several new AMD GPU IP blocks, including GFX/GC (graphics and compute) 11.5.3, PSP (Platform Safety Processor) 14.0.5, SDMA (System Direct Memory Access) 6.1.3, and DCN (display core Next) 3.6. While the block-by-block enabling strategy of AMD challenges to indicate accurate products to suit these firmware files, GFX 11.5.3 version RDNA indicates another amendment of 3.5 architecture.
This is particularly notable for its time. Typically, AMD releases new firmware binergies close to or after the launch of a product. So this strongly suggests that AMD RDNA may be about releasing a product with 3.5 graphics – perhaps an APU with a budget graphics card or integrated graphics. The RDNA 3.5 Architecture is an old forth update for RDNA 3, and we have seen it for most parts so far on mobile GPU and APUs. The initial GFX 11.5.0 IP has been found in the recently announced AMD Ryzen AI 300 series, named “Strikes Point”. Subsequently, the GFX 11.5.1 is designated for the more powerful “Strike Halo” APUs, and the GFX 11.5.2 has been linked to “Kracon Point”, another Zen 5-based mobile processor.
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AMD only revealed Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPU
The RDNA 4 graphics cards are finally on the way.
The GFX 11.5.3 can probably be emerged for “Gorgon Point”, a rumor may be fresh on the successor or Strikes point line. The “Gorgon Point” desktop EPUS is estimated to be foundations for the upcoming Ryzen 9000G series, with the RDNA 3.5 graphics in addition to the Zen 5 core.
Nevertheless, we have to wait and see. It is noteworthy that AMD is not using RDNA 4 on desktop GPU yet, but it is also not strange to see AMD using a little old architecture on the occasion, especially when it comes to low-end products. We have sadness that whatever we have reported, there is no other details other than that, so we just have to wait patiently. If you were waiting for RDNA 4 APUs, however, it seems that you may have to stop your breath, for the least time.
Source: Foreonics
