AMD recovers Project Quantum and would be based on a Ryzen 5000 and an RX 6000

Tech companies sometimes announce big projects or breakthrough technologies that can end in nothing. One of these cases is AMD Project Quantum, a project announced in mid-2015 and about which we stopped knowing anything in mid-2016. During these years nothing has been known about this project, until now, that it seems that he has risen.

Initially AMD Project Quantum was based on an Intel Core i7-4790K and a Radeon R9 Fury X. Although there is no official record, the project would have stalled pending the hope that AMD could offer a competitive CPU and GPU. It appears that the company is finally in a position to recover this project, as shown by a leaked patent.

AMD would be recovering Project Quantum

According to the leaked patent, the company has recovered Project Quantum after having it in a drawer during this type of event. The new prototype, as has been leaked, is based on a Ryzen 5000 and a Radeon RX 6000. The raw power will be put by the Zen3 architecture processor and the RDNA2 architecture graphics. While this architecture will not be the most cutting-edge on the market, it is AMD's best solution for gaming today.

The system was initially based on an ASRock Z97E-ITX / ac motherboard and the Intel Core i7-4790K processor. It was accompanied by Crucial Ballistix DDR4 memory, an AMD SSD and an R9 Fury. The last attempt was already using a Ryzen 1000 and a Vega 64/56, but it seems that it was ruled out by the graphics.

The Vega architecture has a lot of temperature problems in large silicons and had a very high consumption. These two problems made the development of a so compact system competing with the Intel NUC. Although it is true that Vega iGPUs are very good, due to the limited number of Stream Processors.

We will see how AMD recovers Project Quantum and what hardware it carries. It points to be great news, as there is no AMD equivalent solution to the Intel NUCs.