AMD’s latest APU, dubbed ‘Gorgon Point’, has generated some buzz after its specifications were apparently leaked. However, the excitement may be somewhat tempered, as this APU appears to simply refresh the existing Strix Point hardware rather than introduce significant enhancements.

Reports suggest AMD was presenting details to its commercial affiliates, probably including manufacturers of laptops and handheld devices, when the notorious slides were photographed and subsequently shared online by Korean user harukaze5719. The posts have since been removed but echoes of the content persist across various tech forums.

The new APU seems to retain notable features from the Strix Point chip, such as the 12 Zen 5 cores and 16 RDNA 3.5 graphics compute units (CUs). One potential upgrade involves the Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which boasts a rating of ‘55+ TOPS’, surpassing the 50 TOPS of its predecessor. Although the overall performance improves by about 3-5% in multitasking and single-thread scenarios, this bump might arise from slight increases in clock speeds, with ‘Gorgon Point’ reaching up to 5.2 GHz compared to the 5.1 GHz peak of the current Ryzen AI HX 375 models.

In summary, while the ‘Gorgon Point’ APU brings some incremental enhancements, particularly in NPU capabilities, it is not the groundbreaking advancement that many gamers anticipated. Scheduled for 2026 release, this chip will likely still rely on RDNA 3.5 graphics. Given AMD’s latest advancements in RDNA 4 technology, sticking with this older graphics architecture raises concerns about its competitiveness in upcoming handheld gaming PCs.