Rumor manufacturing plant: More than documents seem to be emerging as a result of the ransomware attack Gigabyte suffered before this month, revealing additional details about AMD's adjacent generation of processors. If what's in these documents is true and up to date, then information technology appears a wider range of Ryzen processors will have integrated graphics, no longer requiring detached graphics cards for basic functionality, similar to Intel'due south processor lineup.

Chips and Cheese claims to have picked out more than details from the leak of Gigabyte'southward documents and its communications with Intel and AMD. Among them is a diagram detailing the compatibility of three different types of processors that will use AM5 -- the new sockets AMD volition use for its upcoming Zen 4 Ryzen 6000 processors, which reportedly accept the codename "Raphael."

Next to "On-Fleck Graphics," the diagram lists "Hybrid GFX Support" underneath "1 Defended" for all three processor types, implying integrated graphics. Currently, the only AMD consumer processors that have integrated graphics are the company's Chiliad-series APUs, the latest generation of which just came out in April. This leak suggests nosotros may come across them on the higher-stop mainline Ryzen and/or Threadripper parts.

Some users might desire to buy the beefier processors without also needing to buy defended GPUs, but including iGPUs but makes some things easier and more flexible. If someone with one of AMD's electric current non-Chiliad-series processors sees their GPU neglect and they don't have a backup, their system is essentially useless until they can supplant information technology, whereas integrated graphics provide some kind of culling video signal through which they could do annihilation that doesn't require a powerful discrete GPU, including some lightweight gaming.

This along with another feature from the leak might make updating the BIOS easier when initially setting up a system. Terminal week TechPowerUp revealed another slide from the leak, showing a block diagram for AM5. That same slide appears in the Chips and Cheese leak. In addition to revealing its PCIe 4.0 lanes, it suggested that all AM5 socket motherboards will have USB BIOS update, a feature that only some of the current AM4 motherboards include. This should make it easier for users to update a BIOS without already having a CPU compatible with the old BIOS on manus.

That, combined with iGPU support should generally give users more flexibility when setting upwards, updating, and troubleshooting upcoming AMD systems.

This leak allegedly comes from RansomExx having published a piece of the information it stole from Gigabyte in the ransomware attack.