AMD's FM2+ socket aimed to launch alongside its upcoming Kaveri APU has been already detailed in the recent roadmap from AMD but a slide from ECS upcoming motherboard also revealed a key detail regarding the compatibility of the socket with previously released APUs.

According to the slide, the FM2+ socket will indeed offer a backward compatibility with Richland APUs and thus Trinity APUs as well. AMD Kaveri APUs will bring some impressive features including the 28nm Steamroller CPU architecture as well as the GCN-based HD 8000 series GPU part and support for AMD's HSA architecture. According to a comparison picture of two sockets, these are not that much different and it is no wonder that backward compatibility is present.

On the other hand, AMD should bring support for DDR4 or even GDDR5 support with Kaveri APUs and it is most likely that performance improvements that it will bring will not be support on Richland and Trinity APUs but it is nice to know that support for those APus will still carry on with the FM2+ socket as well.



Source: Computerbase.de.