AMD Ryzen AI 7 300 “Krackan Point” APU reportedly spotted in a benchmark and shipping manifest – Features eight Zen 5 cores and LPDDR5X-8000 memory

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Thanks Everest on XAn APU from AMD’s upcoming “Krackan Point” or mainstream Ryzen AI 300 series has reportedly surfaced in a benchmark and a ship’s manifest.

The Ryzen AI 300 series launched with AMD’s best “Strix Point” silicon, which is offered in the Ryzen 9 and Ryzen 7 PRO series with more than 16 Compute Units (CUs) based on RDNA 3.5. As is tradition, AMD will make a budget-oriented successor Krakaan lineup next year – which we assume is just leaked.

The APU was spotted with the OPN code “100-000000713-21_N” at Openbenchmarking, a website that collects benchmark data from the Phoronix Test Suite. An eight-core, sixteen-thread configuration puts it in Ryzen 7 territory, so it’s safe to assume that APUs in the regular Ryzen AI 5/7 300 series will be based on Krackan.

It is pertinent to mention that based on leaks, these eight cores have been split into four Zen 5 and four Zen 5c cores, although the cache configuration does not change. To further substantiate our claims, the motherboard states “BirmanPlus-KRK” – where KRK is an abbreviation for Krackan.

Additionally, this leak reveals that Krackan will support up to LPDDR5X-8000 memory, which is a nice improvement over Strix and Phoenix – both with just LPDDR5-7500. Krackan Point APUs are rumored to have up to eight CUs based on RDNA 3.5. Since Lunar Lake can handily keep pace with the 16 CU Radeon 890M, Krackan could be on the losing side – although competitive pricing will give it an edge, as Lunar Lake isn’t cheap to produce and package.

A shipping manifest also reportedly lists two Krackan Point APUs: the Ryzen 7 PRO and Ryzen 5 PRO, with a TDP of 28W based on AMD’s FP8 socket. It appears that AMD is currently sending shipments to OEMs, so Krackan may not be that far away.

Based on AMD’s statement, Krackan Point is real and will arrive in early 2025. Team Red could look to CES 2025 to announce these APUs, followed by a launch in the coming weeks. Krackan Point should replace the Phoenix series, giving users the benefits of Zen 5 and the updated RDNA 3.5 architecture.