From a purported Medusa Point benchmark and an FSR 4.1 sighting to a possible RDNA 5 update, things are happening on the AMD front. To start with, we have what are said to be Geekbench scores for a 10-core Medusa Point CPU. It should always be noted that CPU scores have been spoofed many times over the years, but these appear to be legitimate. Medusa Point is an AMD mobile part based on the Zen 6 architecture and expected to be featured in laptops in the upcoming months. The particular processor seen here has 10 cores / 20 threads and an impressive 32 MB L3 cache. It has a base clock frequency of 2.4 GHz, and testing was done in a system with 32 GB of RAM. Multiple outlets have reported that the CPU topped at around 1.3 GHz during testing, so these scores should not be considered indicative of top performance for it.
Next up is a potential update to AMD FSR with version 4.1 reportedly being in the works. AMD has yet to officially announce FSR 4.1 but that hasn’t stopped from what appears to be DLL files for it briefly being spotted on AMD’s servers. Owners of Radeon RX 9060 XT, 9070, and 9070 XT GPUs are keeping a keen eye out for it due to possible Redstone updates. The files were deleted, but not before one Reddit user had posted a link to them. Regardless, AMD is likely to officially launch them in an upcoming driver update.
Lastly is a bit of an oddity as spotted via VideoCardz regarding Dual Issue on RDNA 5 GPU. A code change request was made to gfx13 to improve the ability of RDNA 5 GPUs to perform two math calculations at the same time. Updated code shows two new entries called GFX13GenD and GFX13GenD3, which include test files. It remains to be seen exactly how this will affect gaming-related tasks or application settings, but any improvement is always welcome.