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

AMD Carrizo To Deliver The Biggest Perf/Watt Leap Ever – Coming in Q2 2015

Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO, revealed that Carrizo will deliver the largest ever generational leap in performance-per-watt for mainstream APUs. In addition Su also confirmed that Carrizo will be launched in the second quarter of the year. Previously the company had stated that the new APU will be launched sometime in mid 2015 which includes Q2 and Q3. So the recent concise timing revelation indicates that testing, evaluation and qualification of the next generation part are going swimmingly.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-carrizo-performance-efficiency-leap/#ixzz3PU818MXs
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A whole lot of slides about Carizzo which were posted on Anandtech forums:

http://i.imgur.com/sT1nNVq.jpg?1

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http://i.imgur.com/4RQwUDB.jpg?1

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http://i.imgur.com/YWQeNBt.jpg?1

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It appears Excavator has 5% more IPC than Steamroller but the cores consume 40% less power and are 23% smaller on the same process node.

The whole Carrizo SOC is the same size as Kaveri but does not need a southbridge so will be cheaper to make it appears.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
A whole lot of slides about Carizzo which were posted on Anandtech forums:

http://i.imgur.com/sT1nNVq.jpg?1

sT1nNVq.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/4RQwUDB.jpg?1

4RQwUDB.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/YbP5NdK.jpg?1

YbP5NdK.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/xwdUf6T.jpg?1

xwdUf6T.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/YWQeNBt.jpg?1

YWQeNBt.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/iiFijOJ.jpg?1

iiFijOJ.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/6GFHGEd.jpg?1

6GFHGEd.jpg


It appears Excavator has 5% more IPC than Steamroller but the cores consume 40% less power and are 23% smaller on the same process node.

The whole Carrizo SOC is the same size as Kaveri but does not need a southbridge so will be cheaper to make it appears.
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Nice find, was hoping for a decent desktop APU. Hopefully next year.. Would love to have an all in one APU that was capable of some decent gaming settings...

Still AMD are on the right track. When you think back years ago to their plan of 'Fusion'. What they have achieved is commendable, as they run their own tweaked APU in both of the latest consoles. They def achieved Fusion.

If only there was a really powerful desktop version, maybe next year..
 
The Voltage Adaptive Operation thingy looks interesting, 10 to 20% power saving from it is not to be sniffed at, that alone would reduce the power consumption of the 290X by 25 to 50 Watts.
 
humbug said:
The Voltage Adaptive Operation thingy looks interesting, 10 to 20% power saving from it is not to be sniffed at, that alone would reduce the power consumption of the 290X by 25 to 50 Watts.
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But anti-AMD witch hunters only bang on about superior power saving features (not that this is the be all and end all of features you want in a processor). I think they have just been working on what they can control/afford and seem to be making progress on their products. This will become apparent with the next release of desktop CPU which we can then judge them on.
 
Deus Ex said:
Would love to see a competitive AMD processor to tempt my cash.
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They are competitive, just not at the high-end. They focus on low-power devices since that's where they think the money is going forward. Intel are also doing this but have the server market to worry about aswell, which is why the -E series exists - might as well flog those parts to enthusiasts too.
 
my musings
I think soon we will have these in tvs,no need for a dedicated pc/games console...just a tv with a game pad
ok may be a little while off but could happen imo
 
Boom; depending on the apu they are fairly decently in gaming.

2 years running I've built 6600k apu system for kids and this year 7700k apu system. 6600k I've finally OC to 4.2; it runs most things med settings at 1440 by 900....

7700k system is stock for now and runs everything at high to med settings 1440 by 900.....

Both done under 300 pounds each.......This Christmas; I'll most likely redo the systems with ssd drives and add a little ram; most likely replace the cpu coolers with something a little beefer and oc them :D *most likely replace the 6600k with 7700k or something faster*

I mean son plays WoT; more than 30 frames; roblox; plants vs zombies *he wants the new version of that lol* Diablo 3; source engine games.....handles them fine.

I'm not going to replace those monitors for alittle while longer and if I need more power I can always drop in a 265 or 270 :)


Most don't really know just how solid these apus are. Hell I built one 7600 for our meeting room; mini itx system; psu 120w; runs everything my users want *which includes Solidworks; photoshop etc* will run world of tanks at 30 solid frames med/high settings......while being set for 45w. I could run it as 65w if I wanted and still have no issues with psu. I built it for just over 300 pounds. I couldn't come close to what it can do with Intel side.......*goal was to make sure it could run solidworks without issue* :D
 
I am not clued up on DDR4 but general gossip suggests it is a bit lackluster compare to some of the DDR3 out there. Will these APUs see a benefit by going DDR4?

Glad the link mentions support for both DDR3 and DDR4. Not much point in going for an APU when building a budget machine, if you have to splash out its worth in cash to equip it with some serious memory.
 
The problem with DDR4 is that not many have really been clamouring for it. Since DDR3 came out, the benefits of increasing RAM speeds greatly reduced. Even games don't really care if you have 1333 MHz or 1866 MHz RAM, so there is little benefit moving to DDR4 speeds really, especially when latency tends to increase with speed.

At the same time, low-latency GDDR5 RAM is used where needed, i.e. on GPUs, so DDR4 isn't useful there either.
 
DragonQ said:
The problem with DDR4 is that not many have really been clamouring for it. Since DDR3 came out, the benefits of increasing RAM speeds greatly reduced. Even games don't really care if you have 1333 MHz or 1866 MHz RAM, so there is little benefit moving to DDR4 speeds really, especially when latency tends to increase with speed.

At the same time, low-latency GDDR5 RAM is used where needed, i.e. on GPUs, so DDR4 isn't useful there either.
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Please don't spread misinformation. There are quite a few games out there that do benefit from higher memory speeds, whether that be super high clocked ddr3, or ddr4.

The main benefit DDR4 has is density and power consumption. We're just starting to see the first 16GB DDR4 dimms release - they'll be expensive for a while though. DDR4 also runs at much lower voltages than DDR3 - producing less heat and consuming less electricity.

Just one example of how memory speed affects BF4:
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2013/october/battlefield-4-loves-high-speed-memory
 
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