According to the latest rumor, AMD might be ready to release its first Zen-based APU with Polaris graphics in 2017.

According to a rumor coming from Fudzilla.com, the next-generation APU will probably pack two Zen modules for four CPU cores and eight threads, and feature Polaris-based graphics with 11 GCN GPU Compute Units (CUs). Each CPU core could end up with 512MB of cache and APU should also pack 8MB of shared L3 cache.

With Polaris GPU architecture packing 64 Stream Processors per CU, this means that the next-generation APU could pack a total of 704 Stream Processors, which is significantly higher than anything available currently and should put the new APU ahead of Microsoft's new Xbox One console.

AMD is putting a lot of faith in its Zen CPU architecture and 14nm Polaris graphics could make this APU really interesting for casual gamers but it won't be ready before next year. We are yet to see AMD's Zen CPU architecture in action but hopefully first FX-series based CPU should be here before the end of this year.





Source: Overclock3d.net.