AMD 4800S Desktop Kit Might Be A Repurposed Xbox Series X Chip, What You Need To Know
Unfortunately, the one thing that could have made the 4700S a tantalizing product—the powerful GPU built into those processors—was disabled. The 4700S required a discrete GPU to do its thing, and yet despite that, it only had a PCIe 2.0 x4 link for a graphics card. Combine the high-latency GDDR memory with the slow PCIe slot and relatively poor clock rate, and you've got a recipe for a disappointing product, especially in the midst of a GPU shortage.
The prolific rumor-reporters over at Videocardz, however, seem to have got their hands on some details of another console-derived desktop kit, this time called the "AMD 4800S Desktop Kit." It looks quite a bit different from the 4700S, and the site's sources shared some specs that seem quite superior to the older model. The 4800S is supposedly still an eight-core CPU based on Zen 2 cores, but it will apparently have a PCIe 4.0 slot as well. The source of this info didn't specify the bus width, but even at x4 that's still four times the peak bandwidth of the other board.
Unfortunately, the 4800S seems like it probably still has its onboard GPU disabled. That's not confirmed yet, but it seems the kit's first appearance will be as a bundle with PowerColor-produced Radeon RX 6600 graphics cards. With a suitable M.2 SSD and GPU riser in place, one of these kits could make a pretty potent little desktop PC for 1080p gaming. The only real question is how much they'll cost when they hit the streets in the first quarter of next year.
Image and story tip, credit: Videocardz