New AM5 Ryzen APUs incoming, ASUS confirms

I know this is a bit of a formality at this point, but we always provide the latest information, whether it comes semi-officially or directly from board partners. The newly released AGESA microcode for AMD 800-series motherboards is already known to add support for new silicon, the Krackan Point (2) APUs based on Zen 5. While neither AMD nor MSI, who were first to release the firmware, have confirmed support for these APUs, their names can be found in the BIOS data.

ASUS has not confirmed Krackan support either, but it has acknowledged that new APUs are supported . This was shared by Safedisk, ASUS’s in-house overclocker, who regularly shares the latest pre-release BIOS files with the ASUS ROG community, as in this case. Unlike MSI, he explicitly confirmed that this update adds support for new APUs (note it doesn’t mention CPUs).

Source: ASUS

It’s worth noting that the first updates for the Ryzen 9000F series, released a few weeks ago, started appearing around May. This suggests that potential Ryzen 9000G APU support could arrive later this year at the earliest. So far, there’s no sign of Strix Point-based AM5 CPUs, so AMD may skip high-end SKUs this time.

Compared to the Hawk Point/Phoenix-based Ryzen 8000G series, which offered up to 8 Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA3 Compute Units, AMD’s Krackan Point provides up to 8 cores split between 4 Zen 5 and 4 Zen 5c cores, with graphics limited to 8 RDNA3.5 Compute Units.

Source: Safedisk (ASUS ROG Forums)