July 26, 2023 - All Zen chips up to today have contained either 2, 4, or 8 cores. What Phoenix 2 essentially does is combine a dual-core Zen 4 CPU and a quad-core Zen 4c CPU into the same chip, much like how APUs contain both CPU and GPU cores.

September 11, 2023 - The first die shots of AMD's Phoenix 2 APUs featuring a hybrid Zen 4 and Zen 4C configuration have been revealed.

May 25, 2023 - Silicon enthusiast @InstLatX64, ... SKU (CPUID A70F8x) will be equipped with two high-performance Zen 4 cores and four-energy efficient Zen 4c cores for a total of 12 logical threads....

November 9, 2023 - AMD appeared to use a new die with small (or compact) Zen 4c cores known as Phoenix 2 or unofficially Little Phoenix to make four and six-core models, alongside the standard versions based on a stripped-down Phoenix chip containing eight big ...

July 4, 2023 - This smaller version, known as Phoenix 2, has fewer CPU and GPU cores and is expected to be used by the lower-end Ryzen 7040U series APUs. These lower-end APUs are presumably the Ryzen 5 7540U (Phoenix 1 and 2 chips) and the Ryzen 3 7440U.

July 1, 2023 - The first AMD Phoenix 2 APUs which will be part of the Ryzen 7040 series feature a die size nearly 23% smaller than the standard Phoenix chips.

September 11, 2023 - AMD’s hybrid APU architecture with Zen 4C cores has been pictured, with an image being shared on X (formerly Twitter) recently. In this, we can clearly see various elements of the AMD Phoenix 2 APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) architecture, with Zen 4C cores.

January 18, 2024 - Simply put, with a Phoenix 2 APU, you're never getting more than 4 lanes for your GPU if you add one. That being said, these APUs aren't designed to be used with discrete GPUs in the first place.

September 9, 2023 - While AMD’s Ryzen 7040-series (Phoenix) APU carries eight high-performance Zen 4 cores, Phoenix 2 only features six cores, two high-performance Zen 4 cores, and four energy-efficient Zen 4c cores that are considerably smaller than their ...

January 18, 2024 - As has been known for some time, AMD is using two different chips to make the Ryzen 8000G APUs and they're known as the Phoenix 1 and Phoenix 2, where the Phoenix 2 parts feature Zen 4c cores, which are not present in the Phoenix 1 APUs.

January 13, 2024 - AMD Ryzen 8000G "Phoenix 2" APUs come with a hybrid Zen 4 and Zen 4C core configuration and make use of Radeon 740M iGPUs with just 4 compute units. While a single-channel DDR5 memory would offer enough bandwidth to run these iGPUs, it is still ...

November 17, 2023 - It was only recently that AMD finally ... named Phoenix 2. This APU features two regular Zen 4 cores and four area- and power-efficient Zen 4c cores, for a grand total of six cores....

December 30, 2024 - Following the Renoir series, AMD launched the Phoenix lineup as part of its Zen architecture. The Phoenix APUs aimed to provide high-performance processing while maintaining energy efficiency—a critical factor as laptops and compact devices become increasingly prevalent.

January 28, 2024 - Read more: GIGABYTE teases AMD's next-gen desktop APU: Ryzen 8000G for end of January 2024 · Phoenix 2 has gimped memory and PCIe lane support, whereas AMD includes just 14 total (10 usable) lanes, compared to Phoenix 1 dies with dual-channel ...

July 27, 2023 - The Phoenix2 APU is to be AMD’s first 6-core design. It is expected that the full version of this APU will be integrated into the Ryzen 5 7540U, while the Ryzen 3 7440U will feature two Zen4c cores instead of four.

July 2, 2023 - Built on the same 4 nm foundry ... a 6-core/12-thread CPU based on the "Zen 4" microarchitecture, and a physically smaller iGPU with just two WGPs (workgroup processors), or 4 CU (compute units), which work out to 256 stream processors...

June 30, 2023 - AMD could actually use both Phoenix APUs for this Ryzen SKU, since Zen4c is simply a down clocked version of the Zen4 core. Phoenix2 top die is 7540U (2 high+4 low), but 7540U is dual sourced: some chips will be full Phoenix2 dies (2+4), some ...

July 4, 2023 - Ta mniejsza wersja, znana jako Phoenix 2, ma mniej rdzeni CPU i GPU i oczekuje się, że będzie używana przez niższej klasy układy APU z serii Ryzen 7040U. Te APU z niższej półki to prawdopodobnie Ryzen 5 7540U (układy Phoenix 1 i 2) ...