GoKawiilAMD is expected to announce its next-gen mobile CPUs at CES 2027, but leaks have already started to pour in, giving us a decent idea of the performance we can expect. Codenamed "Medusa Point," the Red Team's upcoming lineup will likely be based on the Zen 6 microarchitecture, and one of the SKUs has just popped up on Geekbench. It scored much better than the previous leak, beating most of its contemporaries.
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The part showed up as "AMD Eng Sample 100-000001713-33_N" and was marked under "AMD Plum-MDS1," which we know is the platform associated with Medusa Point. It's a 10-core (4+6) chip, with 20 threads, clocked at roughly 2.0 GHz, carrying 10MB of L2 cache and 32MB of L3 cache. The L3 cache and clock speeds might be misreported. Currently, AMD only makes two other 10-core mobile parts — Ryzen AI 9 365 and Ryzen AI 9 465, so we're most likely looking at a purported Ryzen AI 9 565 here.
Coming to the scores, the chip netted 3,174 points in the single-core test and 15,092 points in the multi-core test. Both of those numbers are higher than the Strix Point flagship APU, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. On average, that SKU sits around 2,600 single-core points, so the Medusa Point score is 22% higher. In multi-core, the AI 9 HX 370 gets 13,400 points, making our main contender 13% faster on average.
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It even beats the Strix Halo flagship, the Ryzen AI 9 Max+ 395, by over 400 points in the single-core benchmark, but loses in the multi-core test. Of course, the onboard graphics is no comparison between the two. Compared to a prior leak also showcasing a 10-core Medusa Point APU, this new listing is significantly better. The previous one came in at only 2,300 single-core and 13,002 multi-core points.
It seems like Zen 6 offers a noticeable leap in performance based on architectural improvements, since the core count between the chips we compared is identical. It's too early to judge anything, though, since Medusa Point is months away at this point, and this is just one SKU from the lineup. The top-end parts almost carry a mandate to be faster than their direct predecessor to be even worth releasing; it's the midrange where the real value proposition lies.
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