AMD's Richland APUs, the successors of the current Trinity line, will not launch until early summer, but it appears that the company will continue its familiar sequence numbering system for the processors.
According to Fudzilla, the high-end Richland APU will be called A10 6800K and replace the current 5800K.
The 3.8 GHz/4.2 GHz, quad-core 5800K sits on the top of AMD's APU series with four CPU cores, 384 Radeon (HD 7660D) cores, and a TDP of 100 watts. AMD will be able to squeeze more power efficiency out of the 28 nm Richland chips. On the high-end, it is unlikely that the company will be changing the power envelope, but rather increase the off-the-shelf clock speed, which should easily be touching 4 GHz/ 4.4 GHz. Richland will also include AMD's new HD 8000 Radeon graphics core.
The A10 6800K as well as other Richland APUs are expected to be announced in June of this year.
from my own experience budget gamers don't care if that is intel or AMD or something else, they just care is money, as it has to be cheap with good performance.
Indeed, if they could bring such power there would be no second thought to buy it or no. with APU's AMD could actually have a chance to expand in casual market. You could get great GPU power with decent CPU power for reasonable price ( cheaper then competitor) and that would be big yes for many I think.
Graphic-Units become more and more potential. - Hopefully, the cpu will also become better.
Indeed, if they could bring such power there would be no second thought to buy it or no. with APU's AMD could actually have a chance to expand in casual market. You could get great GPU power with decent CPU power for reasonable price ( cheaper then competitor) and that would be big yes for many I think.
But I will still cheer for AMD when they kick Intel's ass in any direction they can. May, when time comes, the x86 monopolist be buried along with their tightly held IP.
Budget gamers don't buy intel. That's just stupid.
from my own experience budget gamers don't care if that is intel or AMD or something else, they just care is money, as it has to be cheap with good performance.
if those major software developer start to program their software for ARM......
They can't seriously not have thought of that themselves. Why limit their own products?
ARM in a desktop workstation/gaming rig... ha ha ha... ha.
@ Wolfgang Gruener : Quote me official source from which you wrote this 'article'.
Intel in a smartphone with more than 8 hours of battery... ha ha ha... ha.
I like the idea of going ARM though, low power + high performance (yes it can be done).
More likely about half that.
All evidence I've seen leads me to believe higher-binned (new stepping?) 32-nm Piledriver cores with likely enhanced IOMMU and memory controller.
The Richlands *SIMD Engine Array* is not 28nm Cape Verdi, but called *Radeon Core 2* likely higher-clocked 40nm Turks MAYBE bumping the shaders (480 seems the next sweet spot in the Turks line --like a HD6670 or FirePro v4900-- but could be cut down even further for an APU)
Improved performance and efficiency, with a 'slide-ways' move toward HSA.
Kaveri in 2H-13
The HD8K that will be used in this chip is still VLIW4 and not GCN. It's just rebranded last gen stuff, much like what nvidia does.
Btw. does the GPU has Silverlight hardware support? Anybody knows?
Btw. does the GPU has Silverlight hardware support? Anybody knows?
The Radeon 8800M has 640 *Cape Verde XT* GCN cores, or essentially an HD7770.
Silverlight acceleration is handled by the UVD (universal video decoder) using Avivo (AMD media codecs). Hard to say, really, where SL is headed. Hardware acceleration is getting better in SL but on most platforms it can still be a bit buggy.