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Rumor has it that AMD is ambushing the new Ryzen with a strong iGPU. It could take down Nvidia's RTX 5070. The chip uses the code name "Medusa Halo." It is expected to be the top of the Medusa family prepared for launch from 2026 to 2027. The highlight is the RDNA 5 architecture GPUs that provide 48 Compute Units more than the current Strix Halo model, and it is also rumored that RDNA 5 will make about 10% better frames than RDNA 4.

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If this is true, we might see gaming notebooks that don't rely on split-screen cards to play brutal games comfortably, or even handheld and tablet gaming consoles as strong as consoles, similar to what they saw on the Asus ROG Flow Z13, but AMD seems more serious around here.

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The Ryzen AI Max + 395 was already making waves with the RTX 4070 laptop's hard-hitting Radeon 8060s iGPU. It's a big step forward to prove that AMD's iGPU isn't playing around, and the next step is directly on the RTX 5070. The screen card is known for its strength, but it eats fire, heat, and high price, so it's rarely found in affordable notebooks.

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Another interesting thing is the memory system, because AMD plans to use LPDDR5X and LPDDR6 like normal CPUs so that iGPU can share the ram directly with the system, but solves the bottleneck by inserting a super wide bus to 384-bit equivalent to RTX 4090. Even though the ram is slower than GDDR6 / 7, combined with a faster L2 cache, it still has a high enough bandwidth to fight comfortably.

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The CPU side is not common, because it comes with 12 Zen 6 cores, added with two energy-saving cores, making it both powerful and economical at the same time. However, all this information is only a rumor from the famous Moore's Law is Dead source. It must be heard first. But if it's really close to what it says, 2027 will definitely be a hot notebook and portable game year.

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Source: pcgameson

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