AMD Medusa Point appears with six and eight cores in new tests of Lenovo equipment
They have appeared new AMD Medusa Point processor records on Geekbenchthis time with six and eight core configurations. The tests were carried out on Lenovo systems and expand the leaks about a family of processors that does not yet have a commercial presentation with these specifications.
The samples are identified as Medusa Point 2/3 and placed inside the development of Zen 6 for laptops. It is advisable to separate this identification from the data shown in the logs: Geekbench allows you to consult the cores, threads and caches detected, but it does not by itself confirm the commercial name or the final configuration of the product.
Six and eight cores with different amounts of cache
The eight-core sample appears with the identifier 100-000002152-50_Y and can run 16 threads. The published information describes a distribution in groups of two and six cores, with 8 MB of L2 cache and another 8 MB of L3.
The six-core processor has the identifier 100-000001658-50_Y and runs 12 threads. In this case, the distribution detected is one core and five cores, accompanied by 6 MB of L2 and 4 MB of L3.
Both samples share the family, model and revision values that the leak includes: Family 26, Model 224 and Stepping 0. This coincidence helps relate the records, although it is not enough to ensure that both processors use exactly the same physical design with disabled cores.
The division into groups also does not allow automatically assigning a different architecture to each block. Without documentation from AMD, describing a two- and six-core layout is more precise than turning it into a confirmation of what type of core comprises each group.
Scores change a lot between runs
The results show considerable differences even within the eight-core configuration. A first run scored 1,415 points in the single-core test and 9,670 in multi-core. The publication found another run of the same system that reached 2,889 and 15,099 points, respectively.
This variation prevents taking the first result as a stable measure of the processor’s performance. The maximum recorded frequency also changes: it goes from about 2.17 GHz in the first test to 5.28 GHz in the subsequent one.
The six-core sample scored 1,732 points in single-core and 8,340 in multi-core, with a reported maximum frequency of approximately 2.04 GHz. Outperforming the first eight-core record in the single-core test again shows the effect of the conditions of each run.
These figures correspond to engineering samples. They do not allow us to anticipate the position of commercial models compared to current processors without knowing their power limits, the final frequencies and the state of the software used.
What changes with respect to the ten-core leak
Before these records, a Medusa Point sample with ten cores and 20 threads had already been known. That configuration appeared with groups of four and six cores, 10 MB of L2 cache and 16 MB of L3.
The new tests provide smaller configurations and, especially, differences in the last level cache. The eight-core sample has half the L3 of the ten-core sample, while the six-core sample reduces that amount to 4 MB.
The ten-core version also features a different model identifier than the two new samples. This detail reinforces the need to treat them separately, without constructing a single technical sheet combining what was found in all the records.
AMD has yet to confirm how these configurations will be carried over to its catalog. The results do not establish sales, consumption or availability figures, nor do they prove the sustained frequencies that future laptops will have.
