All we need are some reviews
AMD has now officially lifted the NDA veil off its 4th generation A-Series Kaveri desktop APUs based on Steamroller CPU, Graphics CoreNext 2.0 GPU architectures and 28nm manufacturing process. In case you missed it earlier, A-Series Kaveri APUs fit neatly in the new FM2+ socket on AMD A88X, A78 and A55 chipsets.
As noted, the 4th generation Kaveri desktop APUs are based on Steamroller CPU and Graphics CoreNext 2.0 GPU architectures. The Steamroller CPU architecture is what AMD calls an evolution of the modular CPU design seen on both Piledriver and Bulldozer CPU architectures and promises up to 20 percent improvement in performance clock-by-clock or around 10 percent average. It packs two 64-bit x86 cores and is based on two such modules for a quad-core CPU solution.
The new Kaveri APU also uses a next-gen integrated memory controller (IMC) which support up to 64GB of dual-channel DDR3-2400 memory and has support for hUMA (heterogeneous unified memory access), which allows both the CPU and the GPU to access the same memory simultaneously and thus increasing GPGPU performance. The new Kaveri APU also features new PCI-Express part with up to 24 lanes of PCI-Express gen 3.0.
The Graphics CoreNext 2.0 (GCN 2.0) GPU inside the Kaveri APU is a whole different story as this is currently the fastest GPU ever seen inside an APU and packs eight GCN Compute Units (CUs) which adds up to 512 Stream Processors and 32 TMUs. It brings support for DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3 and AMD's praised Mantle API and TrueAudio technology.
For starters, AMD's new 4th generation A-Series Kaveri desktop APUs will hit the market shelves in three different models, the A10-7850K, A10-7700K, and the A8-7600. The top performance part, the A10-7850K packs 12 Compute Cores, as AMD decided to call them now, with 4 CPU and 8 GPU cores and works at 3.7GHz base and 4.0GHz maximum CPU frequency while GPU ended up at 720MHz. It packs 4MB of L2 cache. Both the A10-7700K and the A8-7600 feature slightly less GPU cores but stick with quad-core CPU design, and, of course, work at slightly lower CPU clocks.
AMD's Kaveri APUs certainly look interesting on paper and all we need now is to see some reviews and those are not far behind.
Source: AMD.com.
As noted, the 4th generation Kaveri desktop APUs are based on Steamroller CPU and Graphics CoreNext 2.0 GPU architectures. The Steamroller CPU architecture is what AMD calls an evolution of the modular CPU design seen on both Piledriver and Bulldozer CPU architectures and promises up to 20 percent improvement in performance clock-by-clock or around 10 percent average. It packs two 64-bit x86 cores and is based on two such modules for a quad-core CPU solution.
The new Kaveri APU also uses a next-gen integrated memory controller (IMC) which support up to 64GB of dual-channel DDR3-2400 memory and has support for hUMA (heterogeneous unified memory access), which allows both the CPU and the GPU to access the same memory simultaneously and thus increasing GPGPU performance. The new Kaveri APU also features new PCI-Express part with up to 24 lanes of PCI-Express gen 3.0.
The Graphics CoreNext 2.0 (GCN 2.0) GPU inside the Kaveri APU is a whole different story as this is currently the fastest GPU ever seen inside an APU and packs eight GCN Compute Units (CUs) which adds up to 512 Stream Processors and 32 TMUs. It brings support for DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3 and AMD's praised Mantle API and TrueAudio technology.
For starters, AMD's new 4th generation A-Series Kaveri desktop APUs will hit the market shelves in three different models, the A10-7850K, A10-7700K, and the A8-7600. The top performance part, the A10-7850K packs 12 Compute Cores, as AMD decided to call them now, with 4 CPU and 8 GPU cores and works at 3.7GHz base and 4.0GHz maximum CPU frequency while GPU ended up at 720MHz. It packs 4MB of L2 cache. Both the A10-7700K and the A8-7600 feature slightly less GPU cores but stick with quad-core CPU design, and, of course, work at slightly lower CPU clocks.
AMD's Kaveri APUs certainly look interesting on paper and all we need now is to see some reviews and those are not far behind.
Source: AMD.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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