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AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo

AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo

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·October 18, 2025
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TulliusCicero

So potentially competitive with a 5070M for graphics? Sounds very nice, as long as price and power draw are reasonable.

oDot

I read somewhere, but can't remember where, that a major reason those APUs aren't as efficient as the Apple ones is a conscious decision to share the architecture with Epyc and therefore accept worse efficiency at lower wattage as a tradeoff.

Can someone confirm/refute that?

jeswin

In this review, Hardware Canucks tested [1] the M4 Pro (3nm 2nd gen) and the 395+ (4nm) at 50w and found the performance being somewhat comparable. The differences can be explained away by 3nm vs 4nm.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HUud7IvAo

christkv

They are ok but yeah they do not have anything like the memory bandwidth of an m3 ultra. But they also cost a lot less. I’m primarily looking to replace my older desktop but just have to make sure i can run an external gpu like the A6000 that i can borrow from work without having to spend a week fiddling with settings or parameters

christkv

I love the concept of it and have been thinking about getting one the only problem I see right now is no ability as far as I can see to get an external dock to run an additional external gpu in the future.

izacus

I'm not sure what do you mean? I'm running eGPU with my Strix Point laptop via Thunderbolt.

I've also seen quite a few mini PCs with Oculink port and Strix Halo CPUs.

christkv

I was reading people having problems getting the external cards working if they had a lot of memory?

ivape

I was just thinking the other day that AMD can match Nvidia pound for pound on the raw hardware specs, and if they don’t just yet, they get pretty close. If AI is a bubble, then AMD should not catch up. If there isn’t a bubble, then there is no choice but to learn to use whatever is out there and AMD is truly set to be another trillion dollar company. The 10% stake OpenAI took is going to look like a Google buying YouTube moment in the long run.

And it’s worth noting, AMD has always matched up with Nvidia hardware wise for decades, plus or minus. They are an interesting company in that they took on both Nvidia and Intel, and is still continuing to do so.

rana763

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