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Rumor mill: As particulars about AMD’s upcoming chips proceed to emerge, some leaks inevitably comprise clues about Sony’s and Microsoft’s next-generation sport consoles. A just lately surfaced die shot has sparked contemporary hypothesis about these gadgets, with each firms planning to launch them throughout the subsequent couple of years.
Trusted leaker KeplerL2 just lately mentioned {that a} newly surfaced die shot doubtless shows the APU for Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox console. The chip, constructed on AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 CPU structure, would possibly trace on the system’s core configuration.
YouTube channel Moore’s Legislation is Useless just lately shared a color-coded diagram of an in-development AMD APU codenamed “Magnus.” Its uncommon configuration – Zen 6 CPU cores on a 144 mm² SoC die alongside an enormous 264 mm² graphics die – and its categorization as “semi-custom” counsel the chip doubtless powers an upcoming sport console.
Though Moore’s Legislation is Useless speculated that Magnus may very well be the PlayStation 6 processor, Kepler believes it is extra doubtless an Xbox APU for a few causes. First, it seems bigger and costlier than the sorts of chips PlayStation designer Mark Cerny usually favors. Second, Kepler claims that Sony’s as-yet-unrevealed PS6 APU codename continues the corporate’s custom of drawing from characters in William Shakespeare’s performs. The chip will reportedly debut beneath the sixth pseudonym Sony has borrowed from The Tempest.
Magnus options three Zen 6 cores and eight Zen 6c cores, totaling 11 cores constructed on AMD’s new CPU structure. Kepler speculates it can function as a 10-core, 20-thread processor, with one core left over for binning. Though the diagram would not present GPU compute items, Kepler believes the chip will include 80 – up from the PlayStation 5 Professional’s 60.
One other clue pointing to Magnus as an Xbox chip is its huge 384-bit reminiscence bus. Sony has favored a 256-bit bus for all PlayStation 4 and 5 fashions, whereas Microsoft’s Xbox One X used a 384-bit bus, and the Sequence X encompasses a 320-bit bus.
Kepler beforehand claimed that each the PS6 and the following Xbox will use AMD’s upcoming UDNA graphics structure, which succeeds the RDNA 4 structure discovered within the just lately launched Radeon RX 90 collection graphics playing cards. This new structure ought to deliver vital enhancements in ray tracing and machine studying in comparison with RDNA 4 and the RDNA 2 chips powering the PS5 and Xbox Sequence X.
