AMD Quietly Bumps up Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" Specs to Support LPDDR5X-8000

[btarunr]

A new ultraportable notebook model powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" processor coming this December, will feature LPDDR5X-8000 memory, a memory speed above the LPDDR5-7500 that was standard for the processor. Hoang Anh Phu did some digging, and found that AMD has quietly updated the product pages of these processors on its website, now showing support for LPDDR5X-8000. Older versions of these pages accessed by The Wayback Machine showed them to mention 7500 MT/s as the top speed for LPDDR5X.

While regular DDR5 SO-DIMM speeds remain unchanged at dual-channel DDR5-5600, it's pertinent to note that mainstream and enthusiast-segment gaming notebooks tend to use faster DDR5 SO-DIMMs than spec using OEM-level memory overclocking, however, LPDDR5X speeds do not tend to be higher than what the processor is capable of. An OEM would only use LPDDR5X-8000 chips if the processor officially supports it, which it now does with this stealthy specs update. The notebook in question is an HP EliteBook X G1a, a 14-inch premium ultraportable that not just uses LPDDR5X-8000 with "Strix Point" processors, but also seems to have overclocked its NPU. By AMD's specs, the XDNA 2 NPU should be capable of 50 TOPS, but HP has stepped its performance up by 10%.



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[Cheeseball]

The model above (with 55 TOPS) would be HX 375. HX 370 (and 365) has been updated to support LPDDR5x-8000 but this still relies on the OEM to actually implement the faster RAM on their device.

GPD Duo has an unlocked BIOS so it is possible to tune it higher.

 

[trsttte]

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

AMD should be pressuring their partners to use LPCAMM2, who gives a shit if it's 500MT/s faster or slower, upgradability is a lot more noticeable.

 

[Wirko]

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

AMD should be pressuring their partners to use LPCAMM2, who gives a shit if it's 500MT/s faster or slower, upgradability is a lot more noticeable.

Not sure if AMD's shareholders want to see long-lived AMD laptops.

 

[kondamin]

Not sure if AMD's shareholders want to see long-lived AMD laptops.

Hey might not want to but legislation towards that is bound to happen so might as well do it and advertise for it.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

AMD should be pressuring their partners to use LPCAMM2, who gives a shit if it's 500MT/s faster or slower, upgradability is a lot more noticeable.

It's really strange how there aren't many colleagues here pushing for lpcamm2 module support. In fact, it's probably the only one. Really weird.

 

[Zareek]

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

AMD should be pressuring their partners to use LPCAMM2, who gives a shit if it's 500MT/s faster or slower, upgradability is a lot more noticeable.

I wonder if part of the reason is that AMD partners want to make Apple money and are apparently convinced soldered RAM is part of that equation.

Who knows, we have the technology to make fast replaceable memory but let's not bother, maybe cost is a part of it? Who knows, it seems like everyday I see a company do something that makes me scratch my head.

 

[trsttte]

Not sure if AMD's shareholders want to see long-lived AMD laptops.

RAM is not a component that fails or needs repairing often and given the still high rate of performance increase each new generation, laptops won't be any more long lived than before just by adopting modular RAM. By any rate the ammount of users that would be upgrading parts is still very small so it wouldn't hurt anyone to offer this quite the opposite (see bellow)

I wonder if part of the reason is that AMD partners want to make Apple money and are apparently convinced soldered RAM is part of that equation.

Who knows, we have the technology to make fast replaceable memory but let's not bother, maybe cost is a part of it? Who knows, it seems like everyday I see a company do something that makes me scratch my head.

Soldered memory makes it so they have to manage and produce different individual SKUs for each RAM capacity as well as making the component sourcing a lot less flexible (the chips are not interchangeable, the modules are).

 

[Zareek]

Soldered memory makes it so they have to manage and produce different individual SKUs for each RAM capacity as well as making the component sourcing a lot less flexible (the chips are not interchangeable, the modules are).

So why is now one embracing LPCAMM2?