AMD’s Upcoming Mobile Rembrandt APU Makes an Early Appearance

If you’ve been waiting for more details about AMD’s next mobile platform, then you’re in luck, as the motherload has dropped today, with lots of details about the new Rembrandt APU’s that are launching next year. Not only has a picture of the first motherboard, with adhering laptop showed up, but we also have a mostly complete block diagram and a list of expected SKU’s, even though not all SKU models are revealed as yet.

AMD’s Rembrandt APU will be its first APU with PCIe 4.0 support, which in itself might not be worth the wait, but if paired with the right GPU, this might help increase the performance somewhat compared to the previous generation of APUs from AMD. The bigger news is USB4 support, plus a new GPU which we so far don’t know too much about, but it’s speculated that it’ll be called Radeon RX 680M and should offer 12 compute units. DDR5 memory support is also expected, so Rembrandt clearly has a new memory controller, since the APU is still based on the Zen 3 architecture.

It looks like we can expect as many as 24 different SKU’s, with a TDP of either 28 or 45 Watts for now, split between two different packaging types, FP7 and FP7r2. The first three models that have been revealed are the Ryzen 7 6800H with a 4.7 GHz boost clock, the Ryzen 9 6900HX with a 4.9 GHz boost clock and the Ryzen 9 6980HX with a 5 GHz boost clock. All three CPUs are said to have eight cores and 16 threads. The leaked notebook is the Alienware m17 R5 from Dell and it’s said to sport up to a Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory, in addition to its Ryzen 9 6980HX APU. The motherboard picture is said to have a Radeon RX 6700M with 10 GB of GDDR6, as it’s from a lower-end model. It looks like we have some competition to look forward to next year between AMD and Intel in the mobile space, that is if the current shortages of everything doesn’t ruin it.