AMD Medusa Halo, coming after Strix Halo in H1/2026 with (optional) 384bit memory bus

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Here are the latest rumors: [https://www.notebookcheck.net/Powerful-Zen-6-Medusa-Halo-iGPU-could-challenge-desktop-GPUs-with-20-more-CUs-and-50-wider-bus.971869.0.html](https://www.notebookcheck.net/Powerful-Zen-6-Medusa-Halo-iGPU-could-challenge-desktop-GPUs-with-20-more-CUs-and-50-wider-bus.971869.0.html) We can expect a 50% memory speed increase, that should provide a 50% boost in tokens per second. I hope they also offer beyond 128GB RAM, perhaps 192GB or 256GB?

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Zyj@reddit (OP)

The latest rumors point to a 2027 release. Also more than 128GB at launch seems somewhat unlikely. OTOH it will allow LPDDR6

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ZangiefGo@reddit

If you even look at it, you turn into stone.

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Gallardo994@reddit

Eeeh, these numbers, benchmarks and all the flexing AMD does during presentations just gets crushed by their own subpar launch with no availability and questionable devices as a whole

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Nerina23@reddit

And here we have one of the rare specimen who understand tech, are a decent and respectable human being but are pretty stupid otherwise. You understand that Strix Halo is a proof of concept chip ? The limited nature is to gather feedback and data on usage, price point, performance and interest in the architecture.

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Gallardo994@reddit

I don't see it being mentioned as proof of concept by AMD anywhere. Same happened to Strix Point which is still a rare Pokemon on the shelves. Are you making up excuses on AMD's behalf by any chance?

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hyperactivedog@reddit

Strix Point definitely seems uncommon when going on slickdeals... but I am coming across sales every so often... I paid like $700 for an open box strix point model with 24GB RAM and an OLED screen... like... they exist. It's a solid laptop. Great battery life no real complaints.

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Internal_Topic1415@reddit

I thought you meant strix halo for for 700 that would be crazy crazy good, just strix point it’s just ok.

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hyperactivedog@reddit

It would be a crazy good deal. $700 for a laptop with those performance traits is still pretty solid. I see similarly performing laptops pop up on slickdeals for 1100 every so often and a comparably performing macbook might be 1500. Not a life changing deal but it's hard to slow this laptop down unless I have a game or two open and I never have to think about battery life.

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Nerina23@reddit

By any chance I happen to know a thing or two about business decisions.

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Gallardo994@reddit

So where is it mentioned it's a proof of concept? "Trust me bro" is not a source of information I would trust, and for the record, anyone would trust. Even then, as a consumer I could care less for their internal business decisions. I see a product launch with lots of talking and no availability.

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Nerina23@reddit

I hate people like you

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piotrkun@reddit

Glad this troll was banned.

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Superpeep88@reddit

Translation you know nothing.

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wprodrig@reddit

This.. Testing the market

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NBPEL@reddit

Denying or not, 9700xt launch was a great success, 200000 units sold

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Massive-Question-550@reddit

i mean their gpu's have good availability in comparison to nvidia and the 9070xt is hardly questionable. plus no availability likely means high demand otherwise why even announce something you arent going to sell? in fact unified memory apu's are likely the future of laptops due to their power efficiency. Apple has led the way on that and clearly it works.

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Traditional_Tax97@reddit

and maybe it will still be possible to buy laptops instead of crap mini PCs?

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Zyj@reddit (OP)

Like the HP ZBook Ultra G1a?

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Least_Wallaby_2336@reddit

au top l'ultra !

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dinerburgeryum@reddit

Woof, trying to come in and play Budget M4 a year and change late. Bad look.

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fishlvl@reddit

AMD arbeitet seit 2008 an dem APU-Thema. Also, dass sie ein Jahr zu spät versuchen, einzusteigen, ist Unsinn.

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b0tbuilder@reddit

Does not matter. You will still be memory bandwidth constrained. 128 w 384 would be amazing.

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Defiant_Coffee_1427@reddit

At what price point do you think a 128gb version of the asus z13 or hp g1a is worth it? If I can get the hp zbook g1a 128gb for $3000 should I get it or wait more than a year for Medusa halo laptops?

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Zyj@reddit (OP)

I think paying more than $2200 is probably not a good deal. I‘m waiting for them to become available and their price to fall to $2000 myself

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Clean_Security2366@reddit

Cool another chip for laptops which won't be available.

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Imightbenormal@reddit

I want the highest GPU option to also be available on the lower CPU count cores. So it can be more affordable for a light gaming rig. Already they are on own chiplets..

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Zyj@reddit (OP)

Perhaps you don't even need the best GPU if memory bandwidth is the bottleneck for GenAI.

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wprodrig@reddit

You want light gaming, but a cheap phoenix desktop and slap in a card.

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Away_Reference_7781@reddit

Will they use 8000mhz ram?

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Zyj@reddit (OP)

Good point. They probably will use something faster so we might be seeing more than 50% of performance gains

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GreenPastures2845@reddit

WTF is this gaming motherboard naming on an otherwise serious processor line