Ahead of 14th of January
Just a day before the official kick off for the CES 2014 show in Las Vegas, AMD held the Kaveri tech-day for select members of press and although NDA was set for 14th of January, we now have full slides with details.
As expected, the slides show some impressive gaming and general performance numbers but should be taken with a grain of salt considering these come from AMD. In case you missed it earlier, AMD's upcoming Kaveri APU is based on Steamroller CPU architecture paired up with AMD's Graphics CoreNext GPU architecture as well as support for both AMD HUMA and Mantle.
Based on 28nm SHP node manufacturing process, the Kaveri APU die features a size of 245mm2 and packs 2.41 billion transistors. It packs up to eight GCN compute units (CUs) which adds up to a total of 512 GCN cores on the flagship A10-7850K APU. Due to special asynchronous compute engine design, the GPU cores can also access L2 cache and it also supports HUMA, or unified memory.
While it was already quite clear that we will see some impressive GPU performance when compared to both Intel's Haswell CPUs (APUs) and AMD's previous Richland APUs, the Steamroller CPU architecture is far from impressive. According to early slides, the A10-7850K Kaveri APU is anywhere between 35 and 91 percent faster than Intel's Core i5-4670K with Intel HD 4000 series graphics in a bunch of tested games. When compared to Richland with the same TDP, the performance gain of the Kaveri APU drops to anywhere between 30 to 45 percent, which is quite an impressive score.
Of course, AMD still has a hidden ace up its sleeve and the big part of the presentation was focused on Mantle and the fact that Kaveri APUs get up to 45 percent in Battlefield 4 and in some cases the performance gain goes even higher.
Of course, AMD is still talking about general performance and we still have to wait a bit longer to see some reviews. According to early info, we will first see the flagship A10-7850K and the A10-7700K while the rest of the lineup is expected later.
Source: Wccftech.com.
As expected, the slides show some impressive gaming and general performance numbers but should be taken with a grain of salt considering these come from AMD. In case you missed it earlier, AMD's upcoming Kaveri APU is based on Steamroller CPU architecture paired up with AMD's Graphics CoreNext GPU architecture as well as support for both AMD HUMA and Mantle.
Based on 28nm SHP node manufacturing process, the Kaveri APU die features a size of 245mm2 and packs 2.41 billion transistors. It packs up to eight GCN compute units (CUs) which adds up to a total of 512 GCN cores on the flagship A10-7850K APU. Due to special asynchronous compute engine design, the GPU cores can also access L2 cache and it also supports HUMA, or unified memory.
While it was already quite clear that we will see some impressive GPU performance when compared to both Intel's Haswell CPUs (APUs) and AMD's previous Richland APUs, the Steamroller CPU architecture is far from impressive. According to early slides, the A10-7850K Kaveri APU is anywhere between 35 and 91 percent faster than Intel's Core i5-4670K with Intel HD 4000 series graphics in a bunch of tested games. When compared to Richland with the same TDP, the performance gain of the Kaveri APU drops to anywhere between 30 to 45 percent, which is quite an impressive score.
Of course, AMD still has a hidden ace up its sleeve and the big part of the presentation was focused on Mantle and the fact that Kaveri APUs get up to 45 percent in Battlefield 4 and in some cases the performance gain goes even higher.
Of course, AMD is still talking about general performance and we still have to wait a bit longer to see some reviews. According to early info, we will first see the flagship A10-7850K and the A10-7700K while the rest of the lineup is expected later.
Source: Wccftech.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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