Rumor: AMD Rembrandt laptop APUs get Zen 3+ cores and RDNA 2 GPU

AMD’s next Ryzen laptop processors are rumored to have Zen 3+ cores. These chips, codenamed Rembrandt, would also be produced at 6nm and have an RDNA 2 GPU.

This information comes from ExecutableFix. This Twitter user regularly posts accurate information about unannounced AMD products. For example, the Twitter user shared the correct specifications of AMD’s EPYC Milan processors before release. The leaker also predicted last year that the Ryzen 5000 APUs would be available as variants with Zen 2 or Zen 3 cores, which later turned out to be true.

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The Twitter user states that AMD’s Rembrandt chips will have an RDNA 2 GPU with a maximum of 12 compute units. To illustrate, the current Radeon RX 6700 XT desktop graphics card has 40 such CUs, and the highest-ranking RX 6900 XT has 80 RDNA 2 compute units. ExecutableFix further states that the Rembrandt chips will be used for laptops, but he expects the next desktop APUs get the same configuration.

ExecutableFix reported earlier VideoCardz also writes that the upcoming Rembrandt apus will get Zen 3+ cores. According to the leaker, this is the only series of AMD products known to use this architecture. According to the Twitter user, the as yet unannounced chips are produced on a 6nm process from TSMC. The Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer announced this process in 2019 as an improved version of its 7nm node.

The Rembrandt chips previously appeared on a leaked roadmap from AMD, which also mentions the 6nm process. That roadmap also stated that the chips would support DDR5 memory and PCIe 4.0. Current Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 4000 laptop processors still support PCIe 3.0. It is not yet known when AMD will release these Rembrandt chips. This is likely to happen in 2022.

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