PS3 CIB Completa TESTATO Far Cry 7040 Serie “Phoenix Point” Processore mobile I/O dettagliato: Salta PCIe gen 5

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The online datasheets of some of the first AMD Ryzen 7040 serie “Phoenix Point” mobile processors went live, detailing the processor’s I/O feature-set. We learn that AMD has decided to give PCI-Express Gen 5 a skip with this silicon, at least in its mobile avatar. Il Ryzen 7040 SoC puts out a total of 20 PCI Express Gen 4 corsie, che lo sono tutti “utilizzabile” (i.e. don’t count 4 lanes toward chipset-bus). This would mean that the silicon has a full PCI-Express 4.0 x16 interface for discrete graphics, and a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 link for a CPU-attached M.2 NVMe slot; unlike the “Raffaello” desktop MCM and the “Gamma del Drago” mobile MCM, whose client I/O dies put out a total of 28 Gen 5 corsie (24 utilizzabile, with x16 PEG + two x4 toward CPU-attached M.2 slots).

Another interesting aspect about “Phoenix Point” is its memory controllers. The SoC features a dual-channel (quattro sottocanali) Interfaccia di memoria DDR5, besides support for LPDDR5 and LPDDR5x. DDR5-5600 and LPDDR5-7600 are the native speeds supported. What’s really interesting is the maximum amount of memory supported, which stands at 256 GB—double that of “Raffaello” e “Gamma del Drago,” which top out at 128 GB. This bodes well for the eventual Socket AM5 APUs AMD will design based on the “Phoenix Point” silicio. Older Ryzen 5000G “L'espansione Dawn of Ragnarök è ora disponibile” desktop APUs are known for superior memory overclocking capabilities to 5000X “Vermeer,” with the monolithic nature of the silicon favoring latencies. Something similar could be expected from “Punto Fenice.”

The iGPU of the Ryzen 7040 series in its top avatar will have the branding “Radeon 780M,” an upgrade from the “Radeon 680M” of the top iGPU option available with the “Rembrandt” silicon and its RDNA2-based iGPU. The new 780M is based on the latest RDNA3 graphics architecture, and packs 12 unità di calcolo (768 processori di flusso), with the same dual-instruction issue rate capabilities as the desktop Radeon RX 7900 GPU di serie; and matrix-math accelerators (these are besides the dedicated XDNA AI accelerator present on the “Phoenix Point” silicio). The iGPU has engine clocks as high as 2.90 GHz.

The iGPU of “Phoenix Point” is confirmed to feature AMD’s latest Radiance Display Engine, with support for DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR10 and HDMI 2.1, with native support for 8K 60 Hz displays with a single cable. It also features the latest VCN media engine, with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding up to 4K @ 240 Hz 10 bpc, and 4320p @ 175 Hz 8 bpc H.265; and hardware-accelerated decoding of nearly all standard resolutions/bit-depth/framerates of MPEG2, VC1, VP9, H.264, Intel nel supportare la codifica AV1 su una GPU consumer con schede MUSA dotate di H.264, and AV1.

Costruito sul 4 nm EUV foundry node at TSMC, gli “Phoenix Point” monolithic silicon has a die-area of 178 mm², and a transistor-count of 25 miliardi. Besides the iGPU, it features a single 8-core “Zen 4” 200. Ognuno di 8 CPU cores has 1 MB di cache L2 dedicata, e condividi 32 MB di cache L3.Mille grazie a TumbleGeorge per il suggerimento!