- A new leak shows that the APU Zen 6 of AMD will use the architecture of DNA 3.5 instead of DNA 4
- Arna 4 is shown that discreet GPU only via GPUOPEN drivers
- This means that pocket computers or future laptops using Medusa Point Apus may not have FSR 4
While we are waiting for the addition of AMD to its Stix Point Ryzen AI 300 processors – like the Ryzen Z2 Extreme for portable game PCs – Team Red is already planning its next generation of mobile apu, called “Medusa Point”. Unfortunately, there have been disappointing news.
According to Kepler_L2 (which covers rumors and technological leaks) on X, the next Zen 6 APUS of AMD (notably the range of points of Medusa) will not use the RDNA 4 architecture – based on unknown code in the GPUOPEN of AMD pilots – and will probably use DNA 3.5. This discovery was made via the RDNA 4 ‘GFXLP12’ peripheral ID, which only concerns discreet GPUs according to a line of the code.
Essentially, this means that the new generation features like FSR 4 will potentially be available on devices that use Next Zen APU 6 – which will be a huge disappointment for the expectation of new scaling technology to arrive at port or laptop computers. We do not yet know what the APUs are included in the Medusa Point range or if one of its processors will play in future portable play PCs, but given the rhythm of development on the portable market at the moment, it would be a surprise if they did not.
Although no FSR 4 is exactly a dealbreaker, it has been shown that it offers exceptional image quality improvements – in particular in its performance mode, in certain sequences, even by moving the NVIDIA DLSS 3 performance model – and this would help replace the existing performance mode of FSR 3, which considerably sacrifices image quality for better performance.
This leaves me worried about the state of potential portable playing PCs point point to Apu …
I have to clarify again that we still know very little about the APU of Medusa Point, especially if they will be used for portable game PCs. But assuming they will do it (which I am almost certainly sure), no FSR 4 is a disappointment, to say the least.
I am aware that AMD does not exclude the chances that FSR 4 arrives at RDNA 3: The NVIDIA framework generation technology could only make its way to the GPUs of the RTX 3000 series, similar to the potential backport of FSR 4. However, I am convinced that even if this is the case, it will not be the complete package, with the new generation of generation of potentially missing frame.
The good news is that the next Medusa Point processors can produce fantastic performance results in the games despite everything – we have seen the main Rival of AMD, Intel on this subject recently, with the MSI Claw 8 AI + Intel processor, the Intel Ultra 7 258V processor to provide a huge jump compared to the Intel claw, but there are still games that definitely require an increase.
Hopefully FSR 4 exclusivity on DNA 4 GPUs will be able to end soon (because it would even help current pocket computers like Asus Rog Ally), but I doubt it. Pray that I am wrong.
