AMD confirms its plan to launch Krackan CPUs in 2025
AMD Krackan is launching in 2025, bringing Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 to mainstream laptops
AMD has confirmed that it plans to launch new “Krackan” series Ryzen APUs in 2025. These APUs will feature Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and an XDNA 2 NPU.
This new CPU design features four Zen 5 CPU cores and four additional Zen 5c CPU cores. Furthermore, it features an RDNA 3.5 graphics chip with eight compute units – the same number as Valve’s Steam Deck. This should give AMD’s budget-oriented Zen 5 mobile CPU plenty of gaming potential.
AMD has already released higher-end Zen 5 mobile CPUs in the form of Strix Point. Krackan is a lower-end design that targets more affordable laptops. It retains the XDNA 2 NPU of its higher-end counterpart, making it ready for the AI era.
Strix Point is available here and from some manufacturers, but these are all premium devices at correspondingly high prices. In order to reach the mass of the market, cheaper chips are needed. Here, AMD’s Jack Huynh, head of the Ryzen and Radeon division, confirmed in a conversation at IFA 2024 that Krackan will attack here from the beginning of 2025.
With a launch date in 2025, we should expect to see this new series of AMD mobile CPUs at CES 2025. Rumour has it that AMD is also planning to release a higher-end Zen 5 mobile CPU called “Strix Halo”, which will reportedly feature a much larger integrated graphics chip and more Zen 5 CPU cores. Between these three Zen 5 mobile chips, AMD will have offerings that span the whole laptop CPU market. With Strix Halo, their graphics performance may even surpass some discrete GPU products.
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