News AMD's Krackan Point APUs land in early 2025 for budget notebooks — Krackan Point-powered Copilot+ laptops may start at $799

[Admin]

AMD is preparing mainstream Zen 5 mobile CPUs, codenamed Krackan Point, that will power notebooks cheaper than $800 by early 2025.

AMD's Krackan Point APUs land in early 2025 for budget notebooks — Krackan Point-powered Copilot+ laptops may start at $799 : Read more

 

[Notton]

The article uses "Krackan", but it's "Kraken", and both exist.

Okay, here is my theory:
Kraken point only gets 8CU to differentiate it from Z2X, as evidenced by the plethora of handhelds using a 7840U/HS or 8840U/HS instead of a Z1X.

Z2X would be for handhelds or non-dGPU slim laptops with emphasis on gaming
R5/7 9840U/HS (or whatever its name will be) could get an emphasis on battery life from the chopped down iGPU. Obviously, this would be the one to pair with a low end dGPU for budget gaming laptops.

 

[Giroro]

"Budget" notebooks start at $100 Chromebooks, not $800.

 

[TheSecondPower]

The article uses "Krackan", but it's "Kraken", and both exist.

Okay, here is my theory:
Kraken point only gets 8CU to differentiate it from Z2X, as evidenced by the plethora of handhelds using a 7840U/HS or 8840U/HS instead of a Z1X.

Z2X would be for handhelds or non-dGPU slim laptops with emphasis on gaming
R5/7 9840U/HS (or whatever its name will be) could get an emphasis on battery life from the chopped down iGPU. Obviously, this would be the one to pair with a low end dGPU for budget gaming laptops.

I'm wishing for that but I think it's unlikely. For the 7040 series AMD just has two dies going into the factory, Phoenix and Phoenix 2. They come out as the 7840 or 7540 or Z1 Extreme or Z1 depending on which features get disabled.

For the 300 series, it sounds like the two dies are 4+8 cores and 16 CUs or this new die which has 8 cores (2+6? 4+4?) and 8 CUs. Maybe AMD will make a die with 2+4 cores and 16 CUs but I doubt it. But maybe the Z2 Extreme will use the bigger die and disable some cores in exchange for a lower sticker price.

 

[wwenze1]

"Budget" notebooks start at $100 Chromebooks, not $800.

Exactly, i bought a 7535 with 4050 and 144Hz screen for slightly less than $800 in mid 2023

I was waiting for a $400-500 Phoenix laptop that never came

 

[Amdlova]

Cheap devices. Lol... they make apple become good.

 

[usertests]

It has to be "budget". Lunar Lake will squash it, but at 2x the price most likely.