AMD's upcoming Carrizo APU has showed up in a couple of well known benchmarks like the SiSoftware Sandra and the GFXBench database, showing some of the first results of the pre-production Carrizo-L APU.

The benchmarked Carrizo-L APU, listed as the AMD Eng Sample 2M1801C1Y4381_26/18/08/04_9874 (2M 4T 2.6GHz, 1.4GHz IMC, 2x 1MB L2), features four Excavator based CPU cores (two modules) clocked at up to 2.6GHz, each module with 1MB of L2 cache while the graphics part of the APU features 512 Stream Processors. The GPU part is clocked at 626MHz and features support for Huma (Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access), which is a part of the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture).

The results of the benchmarked Carrizo-L APU are quite interesting as according to the SiSoftware data list, it will bring significant IPC improvements compared to the Kaveri APU, considering that its performance was close to the A10-7300 Kaveri APU, which runs on 3.2GHz.




The GPU side of benchmarks are not that impressive but might be attributed to a lack of good drivers considering that Carrizo APUs are not scheduled to launch until March next year, according to recent rumors.



Source: via Computerbase.de.