AMD Gonzalo SoC Appears – A Console APU with Zen Cores and Navi Graphics

At CES 2019, Microsoft confirmed that they plan to continue working with AMD on future products, an indication that the next-generation Xbox will be another AMD powered system. 

For future consoles, AMD has plenty of hardware upgrades that Microsoft can choose from, with an upgrade from the Xbox One’s Jaguar CPU core to the company’s new Zen architecture sitting high on the consoles upgrade list. On the graphics side, Microsoft also has the option to adopt Radeon’s planned Navi architecture, taking on Vega’s useful traits in the process, such as 2x FP16 computational throughput, what AMD calls “Rapid Packed Math”.

TUM_APISAK, a well-known leaker within PC hardware circles, has revealed a new chip called AMD Gonzalo, a new gaming chip that could act as the base of a future console. 

The AMD 2G16002CE8JA2_32/10/10_13E9 code can mean many things, but based on older AMD products we can guess that the “G” stands for gaming, with the D in older AMD product codes referring to Desktop, M for Mobile, etc. The 32 likely stands for a boost clock speed of 3.2GHz, while the 10_13E9 is a potential reference to a Radeon graphics chip, with TUM_APISAK referring to it as Navi 10 Lite. 

At this time it is unknown whether or not this chip is based on AMD’s Zen 2 architecture, but the Gonzalo code refers to a processor with eight cores and an unknown L3 cache size. If this product is 7nm, the use of Zen 2 cores is more likely.  

Rumour has it that Sony was a major investor in the development of AMD’s Navi GPU architecture, making it possible that this silicon could be the baseline for their PlayStation 5 console.