AMD's upcoming Bristol Ridge APU has been spotted in Geekbench and although the chip was not running at its full power, it gives us insight on what to expect from AMD's upcoming APUs.

Although we are still waiting for AMD's Zen architecture which should show up by the end of the year, next in line are AMD's upcoming Bristol Ridge APUs, which will be based on 28nm Excavator CPU architecture and GCN 1.2 GPU architecture.

The spotted AMD FX 9800P was rumored to be a quad-core APU running at 2.7GHz and featuring 8 GCN 1.2 compute units, those details are not revealed in the Geekbench and the chip was running at 1.85GHz.

The chip managed to get 5596 points in the multi-core benchmark which puts it in line with Intel's Core i5-6200U CPU running at 2.6GHz, which is a great result. Geekbench page also reveals scores for the A10-9600P and the A12-9700P, both Bristol Ridge parts.

AMD's upcoming Bristol Ridge APUs will also use the new AM4 platform on the desktop side and FP4 on the mobile side. While it is pretty much same as already available Carrizo APUs, support for DDR4 memory will bring certain improvements, especially on the GPU side.

AMD's Bristol Ridge APUs should hold AMD on the market with competitive chips until we see first APUs based on Zen CPU architecture.





Source: via Tweaktown.com.