AMD is finally ready to shed more details regarding its upcoming Kaveri APU lineup that will be branded as A10-, A8-, A6-, and A4-7000 series APUs and will replaced the current Richland APU lineup. Although it was already quite clear that AMD will not manage to get its Kaveri APUs to retail/e-tail shelves before the end of this year, it still managed to officially launch them, at least on paper, while retail/e-tail availability is expected on January 14th.

In case you missed it earlier, AMD Kaveri APUs will be based on 28nm Steamroller CPU part, Graphics CoreNext-architecture based GPU and support for Heterogeneous System Architecture enhancements. It will stick stick with FM2+ socket for desktop parts while notebook, server and embedded part will follow at a later date.

AMD shed some details regarding the A10-7850K flagship during its APU 13 presentation and according to the slide, we are looking at a 3.7GHz clocked quad-core APU with 512 Radeon cores (R7-series GPU) clocked at 720MHz. It packs 4MB of L2 cache, has support for Mantle API, DirectX 11.2 and OpenGL 4.3. The performance of the GPU should be in line with the Radeon HD 7750 while a maximum compute performance of the APU is set at quite impressive 856 GFLOPS.

AMD also showed that the A10-7850K is enough to run Battlefield 4 at 1920x1080 with medium details without any discrete GPU. It managed to pull quite impressive 28 to 40FPS while Intel's Core i7-4770K struggled with around 12-14FPS.

AMD will release more details regarding its Kaveri APU lineup during Developer Summit as well as CES 2014 scheduled for January next year.







Source: via Wccftech.com.