The specifications for the Zen 6 Magnus APU, which combines a processor and graphics chip on a single circuit, have already been leaked.

A new video from Moore’s Law Is Dead reveals AMD’s Zen 6 APU, codenamed Magnus. The Magnus features a massive, 264-square-millimeter graphics chipset with a 384-bit memory bus — wider than any current-generation platform. For example, the Xbox Series X has a 320-bit bus and is connected by a bridge die to a 144-square-millimeter system board. The large, angular design isn’t the Magnus APU’s only interesting feature; the 11 CPU core configuration, which includes three Zen 6 cores and eight Zen 6C cores, is equally unusual.

Initially, the leaker mistook the new AMD APU for a focused mid-range laptop APU for gaming because the configuration made sense. However, in the documents, the Magnus APU was not yet available for clients and servers; the yet-to-be-released Medusa Point APU was, though. The Magnus APU was listed for the semicustom business, where APUs for consoles are made. Moore’s Law Is Dead found Mero, which powers the Steam Deck, and Jupiter, rumored to be the handheld APU for the PlayStation, in the same place when looking at other similar codenames.

The name, square design, and known specs with unusual CPU core configurations suggest that this could be the APU for the PlayStation 6, as the configurations lack low-power cores that would work well for running games at 120 Hz. While many details suggest that the AMD Magnus APU could be the APU for the PlayStation 6, it could also be the APU for the next-gen Xbox.

That is probably the next-gen Xbox, the codenames that AMD uses for Playstation SoCs are from Shakespeare characters.

— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) July 18, 2025

On Twitter, the well-known AMD leaker Kepler_L2 brought up the point that the “Magnus” codename doesn’t align with the PlayStation naming convention. Additionally, the design seems too expensive to be a PlayStation design; Mark Cerny tends to be more conservative with the size range of the chipset. Given that the Xbox Series X has a wider memory bus than the PlayStation 5, the 384-bit bus suggests that the Magnus APU is more likely to be in the next-gen Xbox. Kepler_L2 added that the Magnus APU will feature 80 compute units.

Regardless of whether the PlayStation 6 or the next-gen Xbox will be powered by AMD’s Magnus APU, the future of next-gen consoles looks interesting.

Source: WCCFTech