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More features of upcoming AMD Kaveri APU shown in leaked slide

by Mark Tyson on 28 November 2013, 16:44

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Some previously unseen details about AMD’s next-generation Kaveri APU have been revealed in a leaked slide posted by little known extreme specifications site Extreme Spec. The new range of processors is expected for desktops in January 2014 and we already know quite a few details of what will make up the Kaveri APU. However the new slide fleshes out the details quite nicely.

20 per cent boost to CPU, 30 per cent boost to graphics

Two highlights of the new Kaveri APU are the performance of the CPU and GPU components. The slide mentions that the ‘Steamroller B’ CPU cores present in the next gen APU can offer a performance which surpasses Richland APUs by as much as 20 per cent. Kaveri contains up to four such CPU cores, 4MB of L2 cache and temperature smart functionality.

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Boasting an even better performance hike is the GCN part of the APU. This, based on a pre-silicon projection, will yield up to 30 per cent better performance that the current Richland design. Further new graphics features supported by Kaveri are detailed as; the Universal Video Decode engine 4.2, VCE 2.0 video compression and an ACP audio co-processor.

Looking at absolute numbers we previously learnt that the 3.7GHz AMD A10-7850K Kaveri APU offers a combined all-cores performance of 856 GFLOPS.

A dedicated PCIe SSD interface

The Bolton chipset which accompanies the Kaveri boasts a few performance niceties of its own. The chipset has a dedicated PCIe interface for SSD drives, a 3rd generation PCI2 x16 slot for discrete GPUs and onboard support for resolutions up to 4096x2160 pixels.

The slide concludes with details about mobile-related specs such as battery-life, MobileMark07 and low TDPs between 15W and 25W being targeted, so one could conclude this slide, with its performance claims, refers to a mobile Kaveri APU not previously talked about by AMD. Nevertheless these are interesting new morsels of information to mull over as we await the launch of the first Kaveri APUs.



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Can't wait to see some reviews of these in January. Just crossing my fingers that AMD's not going to release something like another first-generation Phenom or FX, as I would very much like to be able to recommend Kaveri to my girlfriend for her next PC rather than Intel's Haswell Core i5.
DDR3? Still? I was hoping with the benefits to performance they'd be the first to adopt DDR4…
flufflogic
DDR3? Still? I was hoping with the benefits to performance they'd be the first to adopt DDR4…
A mainstream platform adopting DDR4 first? No chance.
AndyM95
flufflogic
DDR3? Still? I was hoping with the benefits to performance they'd be the first to adopt DDR4…
A mainstream platform adopting DDR4 first? No chance.

That would be server HSW-E.
flufflogic
… I was hoping with the benefits to performance they'd be the first to adopt DDR4…

Erm … why? It was announced a long time ago that Kaveri would use a modified version of the FM2 platform and was therefore going to use a dual-channel DDR3 bus on desktop.

DDR4 isn't even commonplace in the server and specialist markets yet. AMD aren't going to launch their new mainstream platform on a memory specification that no major manufacturer are currently supplying.

OTOH, how many major manufacturers are going to put DDR4 modules into mass production when there isn't a mainstream platform compatible with them available? It's a bit chicken and egg. AMD have decided that this *isn't* the right time for DDR4, but tbh it can't be that far off…