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SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 7 hours agoBTW, what actually is “Strix Halo” anyway? I’m confused about whether it’s what they’re calling all the latest-generation APUs, or just the high-end ones, or Asus co-branding, or what.
Strix Halo is the “high-end” ones (and currently the latest), in terms of gaming they are closer to previous gen discrete GPU (hence they use the naming scheme Radeon 8XXX series).
There are smaller ones as well, the one that is “mid-tier” is Strix Point, which has the Radeon 800M series GPU, i.e. closer to what one had in previous generations of integrated GPUs.
In terms of gaming performance, you can compare using Notebookcheck, as an example; Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 on low preset at 1080P:
| CPU | GPU | Average FPS |
|---|---|---|
| Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | AMD Radeon 890M | 19.9 |
| Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 | AMD Radeon 8050S | 76.6 |
| Ryzen AI Max+ 395 | AMD Radeon 8060S | 101.7 |
So, there’s a pretty big leap going from Strix Point (mid tier) to Strix Halo (high-end)
grue@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Holy shit, no kidding! I guess maybe that’s the reason Valve didn’t go that way: they wanted to put their product right in the middle of that graphics gap. Also, even that first one apparently has 12 CPU cores, so the whole balance between CPU and GPU performance is just off.
Still though, if we’re talking custom, it would’ve been cool if Valve could’ve had them build something equivalent to a “Ryzen AI 7” or “Ryzen AI 5”, but still with Radeon 8050S or 8060S graphics.