More details emerge on AMD's next generation of APUs codenamed 'Richland', which will be released during Q2 2013.
Just like the current Trinity APUs, the Richland APU's will drop right into the existing FM2 socket. A total of six models will be released, amongst which four are quadcore and two are dualcore. The x86 cores of the APUs will be built from either one or two 'Enhanced Piledriver' modules, which will be fabricated using a 32nm production process.
Two of the quadcores will have a TDP of 100W, while the rest of the APUs will have a TDP of 65W. The two quadcores with a 65W TDP will have a downclocked GPU to reduce power consumption. The quadcore chips will come packed with either a Radeon HD 8670D GPU or an HD 8570D GPU, whilst the dualcores will sport an HD 8470D or an HD 8370D GPU.
The A85X chipset that is found on current socket FM2 motherboards supports four USB 3.0 ports, 14 USB 2.0 ports, six SATA3 ports, and of course DDR3 memory.
No information is available yet regarding an exact release date or pricing.
| APU-model | Cores | GPU | Tdp |
|---|---|---|---|
| A10-6800K | 4 | Radeon HD 8670D | 100W |
| A8-6600K | 4 | Radeon HD 8570D | 100W |
| A10-6700 | 4 | Radeon HD 8670D | 65W |
| A8-6500 | 4 | Radeon HD 8570D | 65W |
| A6-6400K | 2 | Radeon HD 8470D | 65W |
| A4-6300 | 2 | Radeon HD 8370D | 65W |
Throw in the low power Kabini and Temash SoC's that AMD is developing, which give them the possibility of piggybacking on the rise in popularity of tablets (either android or windows 8), and the impending release of the HD 8000 series, and I think AMD has the potential to do very well in the next couple years.
What exactly do enhanced Piledriver cores have for enhancements ? I'm not talking about an IMC with support for faster RAM, I'm talking about the CPU cores themselves. Is it just clocked faster, like at 4 Ghz, or will it have any sort of architectural enhancements ?
What about the GCN cores ? How many of them and at what clockspeed (I've read 800 Mhz somewhere) ?
Without these two things, we don't know anything about what to expect for performance compared to the current Piledriver Ax-5xxx series.
Throw in the low power Kabini and Temash SoC's that AMD is developing, which give them the possibility of piggybacking on the rise in popularity of tablets (either android or windows 8), and the impending release of the HD 8000 series, and I think AMD has the potential to do very well in the next couple years.
When they over-hype something, they release Bulldozer =[
Globalfoundries isn't part of AMD anymore. AMD contracts a variety of companies now.
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If that's true its would be pretty amazing for an igp.
Kaveri I think is supposed to be the larger upgrade in performance than from Piledriver to Richland. Kaveri will come out in 2014 or so at 22nm or 28nm
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/HD_7750/26.html
So i definitely think with decent ram you will be looking at a 7750 performance under the right circumstances, i.e. high AA scenes will feel the lack of bandwidth and performance will suffer.
This easily explains why the A10 quad core is sorely lacking when its compared to an i7.
Now, bear in mind I'm not trying to discredit AMD, its just that the reason why it suffers from lower performance is a combination of IPC problem AND their cores.
This is why AMD's A10 is mostly comparable to i3 (and possibly an entry level i5).