On March 18, 2026, AMD's Zen 6 architecture APU engineering sample, which bears the codename Medusa Point, made a reappearance on Geekbench. The test scores it achieved were nearly twice as high as those from its initial appearance. This particular sample is identified as belonging to the Ryzen 9 series. It boasts a 10 - core/20 - thread design, comprising 4 standard Zen 6 cores and 6 energy - efficient optimized cores. The chip has a base frequency of 2.40GHz, and in actual operation, it runs at approximately 2.0 - 2.1GHz. It is also equipped with 32MB of L3 cache and 10MB of L2 cache. A notable feature of the Zen 6 architecture is that it is the first to support the FP16 AVX - VNNI instruction set. This support significantly speeds up AI and computational performance. When it comes to real - world performance testing, this low - frequency engineering sample scored 2300 points in single - core tests and 13002 points in multi - core tests. These scores demonstrate that it outperforms the Zen 5 architecture, which has a boost frequency of 5GHz.