Rumor: AMD Van Gogh APUs with Navi GPU will be released in 2021

According to a leaked roadmap, AMD will release its first APUs with Navi GPU in 2021. It appears to be a chip for laptops. The CPU cores are still from the Zen 2 generation. In 2021 there will also be Cezanne apu’s with Zen 3 cores and Vega GPU.

The Van Gogh APUs are made at 7nm and support both lpddr5 and lpddr4x memory. These economical memory types are used in laptops, which indicates that they are APUs for mobile applications. Furthermore, the abbreviation CVML is mentioned as a property. That could stand for computer vision & machine learning. Perhaps Van Gogh is a chip specifically made for this.

AMD reportedly uses Navi GPUs in the Van Gogh APUs. Until now, all APUs from the manufacturer still have the old Vega GPU. The details about the Van Gogh apus are on an image posted online by Twitter user MebiuW. He previously posted another part of the same roadmap; VideoCardz has combined those images to arrive at a reconstruction.

The roadmap also includes the Cezanne APUs for 2021. These are the successors to the Renoir APUs, AMD’s current laptop processors. The new Cezanne variants get new Zen 3 cores, but also have to make do with a Vega GPU. Rembrandt will probably follow in 2022 and those APUs would also get a Navi-GPU.

At the top of the roadmap are the desktop processors without igpu. At the end of this year, AMD will release the first processors based on Zen 3 cores, codenamed Vermeer. Warhol is on the schedule for next year; those CPUs would also be made at 7nm. It could be a Vermeer refresh or some sort of intermediate generation to facilitate the switch from the am4 to am5 socket, VideoCardz suggests. The Raphael generation will be released in 2022. These are presumably the processors with Zen 4 cores that are made at 5nm, which AMD already talked about.