AMD & Intel Laptop CPU Families Detailed: Ryzen 8000 STRIX & HAWK Point In 2024, Arrow Lake-H/HX & Lunar Lake-M By 2025

The next-gen AMD & Intel laptop CPU families have been detailed which cover Strix Point, Hawk Point, Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake.

The latest information comes from Golden Pig Upgrade over at Bilibili which mostly includes data that we have known for a while along with a few new additions. The laptop lineups covered here include next-gen products from both AMD & Ryzen between 2023-2025. Starting with the AMD family, AMD will be following up its Phoenix Ryzen 7040 APUs with two new product families, the Hawk Point "Ryzen 8040" and Strix Point "Ryzen 8050" series.

According to the data, the Hawk Point family will arrive early next year and act as a refresh to the existing Phoenix "Ryzen 7040" APUs. These APUs will reutilize the Zen 4 architecture, offering up to 8 cores and 16 threads. The chips will be compatible with the FP7/r2 and FP8 platforms while featuring support for DDR5/LPDDR5x memory. The leaker states that the RDNA 3 architecture will be utilized for Hawk Point APUs whereas earlier rumors had stated RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture for Hawk Point.

The actual successor to the AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" APUs will be Strix Point and Strix Point Halo, both of which will fall under the Ryzen 8050 APU family. These laptop chips will be separated into two segments since the Strix Point chips will offer a monolithic design with a mix of Zen 5C and Zen 5D cores while the higher-end Strix Halo chips will feature a chiplet design with the Zen 5C cores alone.

AMD Ryzen 8050 Strix Point Mono Expected Features:

AMD Ryzen 8050 Strix Point Halo Expected Features:

Both AMD Strix Point and Strix Halo APUs will feature RDNA 3.5 iGPUs while featuring FP8 and FP11 platform compatibility, respectively. The higher-end chips will support both DDR5/LPDDR5x DRAM while the mainstream chips will feature LPDDR5x support. Since the announcement is expected at CES 2024, we can expect the Strix Point APUs to hit retail shelves by the mid of 2024 which should realistically fall in 2H 2024. That's around the same time it took AMD to roll out Phoenix in the retail segment in 2023.

Moving over to the Intel camp, we first have Intel's 1st Gen Core Ultra lineup codenamed Meteor Lake which is officially targeting a 14th December launch but reports have pointed out that the vast majority of laptops will not be available in decent quantities until early 2024. The roadmap for Intel Meteor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs shows that while certain Meteor Lake-H chips will start shipping at the end of 2023, consumers will have to wait till early 2024 to get their hands on the higher-end and more performance-oriented designs.

Meteor Lake will also be lacking the higher-end HX series which is why a 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh-HX lineup is planned for 2024. At the same time, Meteor Lake CPUs won't be serving the entry-level segment such as Core i3, etc so that's where the Raptor Lake Refresh-U series will target prices that are far more affordable than Meteor Lake options. There's even a Raptor Lake Refresh-H series planned that would arrive in late 2024.

Following are some of the main features you can expect from the 1st Gen Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" family:

The Meteor Lake CPUs themselves will be available in three variants including the Meteor Lake-H, Meteor Lake-U15, and Meteor Lake-U9.

In 2024, Intel will also be offering its 2nd Gen Core Ultra family codenamed Arrow Lake which will come in the H-series laptop SKUs first. These chips are once again expected to be limited during launch followed by proper availability in 2025. The Arrow Lake family will also include HX-series chips for enthusiast laptops which would go nicely with next-gen discrete GPUs and be the true successor to Raptor Lake-HX chips. These chips will also be targeted against AMD's Fire Range-HX parts which will be desktop replacements for notebooks.

Following is what we know about Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs:

Finally, we will have Intel's Lunar Lake-M which will target the low-power laptops and devices and replace the Meteor Lake-U series chips. This lineup is expected to sit alongside the Arrow Lake-H and Arrow Lake-HX chips in 2025. Following is what we know about Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs:

So to sum things up on the Intel end:

Enthusiast:

High-End:

Mainstream:

Entry-Level:

Once again, it looks like the laptop space will be getting some major action between 2023 and till 2025 with various launches, brand new product families, new architectures that offer huge gains in performance and efficiency, and some truly next-gen laptop solutions for consumers across the globe.