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AMD Carrizo APU Massive Leak – 40W TDP, Excavator Cores, 512 SP and Assorted Benchmarks

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Note: Notice very carefully, the tiny but incredibly self-satisfied tag in the corner labeled ‘Rumor’. The sources behind this leak are given and are probably authentic, not to mention very difficult to fake; however this news has not been confirmed either by official or unofficial channels.
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The motherload of leaks concerning Carrizo APU has just occurred. The test results of an Engineering Sample of the chip have leaked online and we now know everything from hardware details to assorted benchmarks, including GFX Bench and Sisoft Sandra. Do keep in mind however, that this is an engineering sample so, a lot of things can change between here and the consumer version of Carrizo.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-carrizo-apu-leak-40w-512-sp-benchmarks/#ixzz3Hm2EZyPz
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Stas823 said:
One step forward two steps back, in true amd fashion. Shame really.
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Yeah, on the face of it (clock for clock) it looks like performance is similar to a Desktop Kaveri, but lets wait and see, its IMC is only clocked at 1.4Ghz, mine is clocked at 2.2Ghz, i have L3 it and Kaveri don't.

It has a 40 Watt TDP with a HD 7750, i have a 125 Watt TDP with no iGPU. And probably running at about 180 Watts with that overclock.
 
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And from the looks of it only 1MB L2 per module rather than 2MB per module in the FX8350. Who knows what the cache speed and latency is like also.
 
But amd doesn't need another low power cpu IMO. They need a full fat, gas guzzling monster to smash intel out of their now long overused throne.
 
Its an ES,so I wouldn't much faith in things yet such as reported clockspeeds.

Regarding 1MB/module,the leak is for Carrizo L which is SOC - so has the southbridge and northbridge in the same chip.
 
Stas823 said:
But amd doesn't need another low power cpu IMO. They need a full fat, gas guzzling monster to smash intel out of their now long overused throne.
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Yep, I'm really hopeful that Zen will be a monster and will force intel to do something they should have done a long time ago, namely a 6 core I5 and 8 core I7 at the mainstream (non enthusiast) level.

It's so frustrating that intel can keep churning out these 4 core 8 thread Haswell chips (released June 2013) which they are making an insane profit margin on.
 
I've never been enamoured with multicore. What I'd like to see is something truly revolutionary like VISC. Yeah I know, not asking much eh.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Could be Laptop Carrizo here > http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=de&u=http://www.sisoftware.eu/rank2011d/show_run.php%3Fq%3Dc2ffcdfbddbcdde0d1e8d8ebd9e9cfbd80b096f396ab9bbdcef3c3%26l%3Den&usg=ALkJrhhREDoEuJGzPtvXljyuOxIjPyU97A

6CU 384SP SM5.0 1GHz, 1GB 1.25GHz 2048-bit, x16 PCIe 3:00

Can someone work out if this has a 1GB HBM stack? Or 1GB allocated system memory?

All these leaks so close together, my spidey sense is tingling.. Could these be fakes?
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That looks like a sub 20 Watt SoC, possibly even 10 Watt, the 40 Watt one you posted in OP runs 4 cores @ 2.6Ghz and 512 SP's, they are Laptop.

These are 1.25Ghz, 384 SP's and by the looks of it "6 CU" dual core, the "2048-bit" thing suggest they are HBM.

I don't see why they would be fake, i have a felling they are real :cool:



I just ran my 290, got 3700 Mpix/s, compare that with 410 Mpix/s
 
humbug said:
That looks like a sub 20 Watt SoC, possibly even 10 Watt, the 40 Watt one you posted in OP runs 4 cores @ 2.6Ghz and 512 SP's, they are Laptop.

These are 1.25Ghz, 384 SP's and by the looks of it "6 CU" dual core, the "2048-bit" thing suggest they are HBM.

I don't see why they would be fake, i have a felling they are real :cool:



I just ran my 290, got 3700 Mpix/s, compare that with 410 Mpix/s
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Lol a long time until APU's are useful for proper gaming then. As soon as they are I will ditch my huge desktop PC and build a mini ITX all in one APU setup. I don't think this will be a reality for another 5 years though :p
 
I really want AMD to do well to challenge Intel like in the Athlon XP / P4 days, or even better, the Athlon 64 / P4 days.

But this just seems underwhelming still :(
 
I wonder if we will get any decent ITX board to go with this lower chip? APU's and ITX motherboards are a match made in heaven, what's the point of putting a lower power chip on an ATX board?
 
rtho782 said:
I really want AMD to do well to challenge Intel like in the Athlon XP / P4 days, or even better, the Athlon 64 / P4 days.

But this just seems underwhelming still :(
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Yeah but this is the all in one APU range, for what they are they are really really good. We've got a 5800K build and it does everything it needs to.

AMD's next gen CPU range is coming 2016, then AMD should be competitive against Intel again in the high end space.
 
rtho782 said:
I really want AMD to do well to challenge Intel like in the Athlon XP / P4 days, or even better, the Athlon 64 / P4 days.

But this just seems underwhelming still :(
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It's so strange to see those names now. What a fun era it was.
 
A million lonely little ITX cases just went "Yay !"

Slowly but surely the GPU side of these is becoming more and more beefy. Give it a couple of years and not only will you not need a decent CPU but you won't even need a GPU to build a capable gaming rig.

Not that you can't already using one of their already good APUs but settings are slowly raising :D

Very exciting stuff this.

rtho782 said:
I really want AMD to do well to challenge Intel like in the Athlon XP / P4 days, or even better, the Athlon 64 / P4 days.

But this just seems underwhelming still :(
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Have you ever been down the park and seen a dog jump on the wrong end of a female dog and start humping?

Obviously he's a little confused, just as you seem to be.

AMD are not taking on Intel. They are absolutely thrashing them hands down, but not in the way you realise. They are making CPUs with GPUs on that absolutely thrash the crap out of Intel's onboard GPU. This means they can make APUs for reasonable prices that can actually run games just from the one unit, meaning very cheap gaming PCs capable of running games from anywhere between low and high settings.

Due to their purchase of ATI's GPU division AMD now hold some very, very exciting and powerful technologies.

If you're after a Intel beating CPU then you've got at least two years to wait, but don't worry, the right man is on the job.

See me? I just see AMD throwing money at a competitive stand alone CPU as a waste. We just don't need the power any more, not where it counts.
 
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humbug said:
That looks like a sub 20 Watt SoC, possibly even 10 Watt, the 40 Watt one you posted in OP runs 4 cores @ 2.6Ghz and 512 SP's, they are Laptop.

These are 1.25Ghz, 384 SP's and by the looks of it "6 CU" dual core, the "2048-bit" thing suggest they are HBM.

I don't see why they would be fake, i have a felling they are real :cool:



I just ran my 290, got 3700 Mpix/s, compare that with 410 Mpix/s
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I shouldn't really have compared it to my 290, those things are Pixel Fill monsters, its like comparing a Bugatti Veyron to a VW Polo, silly really.

Sandra has a couple of GPU's in app to compare, there is GDDR5 HD 7770 with a 10% OC which scores 1100 Mpix/s, and a HD 6870 with an 8% OC, it scores 600 Mpix/s.
So @ 400 Mpix/s we are looking at a HD 6850 / HD 7750, this is the 384 SP iGPU with what looks like a ~20 Watt TDP.

Thats actually really good performance for an iGPU, especially for one that pulls very little power, a discrete HD 7750 on its own is a 40 Watt GPU.

The 40 Watt APU posted originally has more SP's, 512, that one might be as fast as a HD 7770, normally a 60 Watt GPU.

This looks like some serious performance per Watt improvement. as well as being iGPU's with proper performance, relatively.
 
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Hopefully the full desktop Carrizo chip will be a bit more beefy. I think 2016 is when we will see APU's really come into their own for proper gaming, new architecture for CPU and GPU plus die shrinks readily available.

Like I said we have this 5800K build that will likely do everything it needs to do forever it's used for web stuff, watching movies, school work, perfect for the budget. For serious gaming you need DGPU atm, but from 2016 onwards I can see this changing for the first time. APU's have a lot of potential. Would love to be able to ditch my huge desktop for a gaming APU build. They will get there eventually.
 
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