AMD Krackan Point 8-core APU Benchmarked, CPU and iGPU Performance Revealed on Geekbench
This is probably the first time we are seeing the iGPU performance of one of the upcoming AMD Krackan Point APUs. Several new test results have emerged on Geekbench, revealing AMD’s upcoming 8-core Krackan Point chip. If you aren’t familiar with Krackan Point, it is yet another Zen 5-based mobile CPU series for the mid-range segment.
Compared to the Strix Point and Strix Halo, the Krackan Point targets the affordable market by offering up to 8 cores and 16 threads while the Strix Point features up to 12 cores/24 threads and Strix Halo will be the premium series with up to 16 cores/32 threads. The one that is leaked on Geekbench is an 8-core APU, which is likely the ‘Ryzen AI 7 350‘ because the name revealed is the same AMD eng. sample, which we saw previously: 100-000000713-40_Y. It was a part of the MSI Stealth A16 AI+ A3HWIG gaming laptop, which MSI might reveal soon.
The results page reveals not only the specs but also the CPU and iGPU scores. Concerning the CPU performance, it’s similar to the previous leak, and this time it delivered 2273 points in single and 11291 points in multi-core Geekbench 6.3 tests. Now coming to the iGPU performance, it delivered 22815 points in the OpenCL test, which is quite slower compared to the Radeon 780M on the Phoenix Point chips, which usually delivers over 30,000+ points. Nonetheless, these scores can vary drastically from test to test and don’t accurately translate to gaming performance.
However, one shouldn’t expect elite iGPU performance from Krackan Point APUs since they are the nerfed version of the Strix Point chips. The iGPU will be still based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture but will bring fewer Compute Units. As far as the specs of the Ryzen AI 7 350 go, it features two core clusters: 4x Zen 5 and 4x Zen 5c with a base clock of 2.0 GHz. The page mentions a max frequency of 2.7GHz but we have seen in previous leaks that the processor can reach over 5.0 GHz.
AMD has previously announced that it will bring Zen 5 to the affordable market in early 2025 and as per the latest press release by ECS which manufactures PC hardware, it is bringing the first AMD Krackan Point-based laptop at CES 2025. This means the Krackan Point is likely to be revealed at CES by AMD, followed by the retail launch a few weeks later.
