AMD Launches Three Kaveri APU SKUs in February 2014 – Feature Set For A10 and A8 APUs Detailed

ALXAndy · 18 Dec 2013 at 11:42

I get around bang on 547 with my 8320 at stock. But then that's 8 cores, not 4.

adriancal · 22 Dec 2013 at 18:21

Will there be NUC sized mini pc's with this CPU?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 25 Dec 2013 at 17:10

I am getting the gist from forums that the 28NM bulk process AMD might be a bit of a fail. However,one could argue the warning signs were there with the lower than expected clockspeeds for Kaveri(if you look at earlier AMD estimations of the amount of GFLOPs it was meant to have). Lets hope,that at least power consumption has dropped.

I saw this on SA forums:

http://insidehpc.com/2013/12/22/hsas-clusters/

It seems the 2015 AMD server APU,aka,"Toronto" will integrate the FCH and will be compatible with DDR4(look at around the 8 minute mark). It seems Excavator will happen and it is DDR3/DDR4 compatible too. It looks like PD will still live on in the older server sockets.

tbh · 25 Dec 2013 at 17:49

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It seems Excavator will happen and it is DDR3/DDR4 compatible too.

Hopefully the recent reports that Carrizo won't feature DDR4 support are false then, seems like it would be a huge wasted opportunity if it didn't.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 30 Dec 2013 at 00:09

This was posted on SA forums:

http://www.gdm.or.jp/voices/2013/1230/56219

The CB R15 score is around 4GHZ to 4.2GHZ Trinity level(the Kaveri CPU is running at around 3.7GHZ).

Boomstick777 · 30 Dec 2013 at 00:20

Looks like a nice upgrade from Piledriver APU's, prob gonna pick up a 7850K at launch just to have a play with on Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H. Time to put the old 5800K out to pasture..

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 30 Dec 2013 at 00:23

Score is the same as the A10 6790K:

http://blackholetec.com/drupal7/sites/default/files/cinebench 15.jpg

So that is a 4.0GHZ to 4.30GHZ PD part.

humbug · 30 Dec 2013 at 00:41

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
This was posted on SA forums:

http://www.gdm.or.jp/voices/2013/1230/56219

The CB R15 score is around 4GHZ to 4.2GHZ Trinity level(the Kaveri CPU is running at around 3.7GHZ).

5% or so, meh... not even worth bothering with.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 30 Dec 2013 at 11:10

humbug said:
5% or so, meh... not even worth bothering with.

More like 10% to 15% in IPC MT improvements although the ST seems closer to around 5% or thereabouts. However,the improved compute performance of the GCN IGP is what is going to make Kaveri more interesting IMHO. VLIW4 and VLIW5 are quite weak in comparison.

Edit!!

CB is FPU heavy BTW,and AFAIK most of the improvements of the SR core are not in the FPU.

JonSmith · 30 Dec 2013 at 12:35

It'll probably get fixed in the revision 2 silicon. The old C2 Phenoms clocked no where near as well as the C3 revisions.

nniitt · 3 Jan 2014 at 18:05

well done! AMD

Emlyn_Dewar · 3 Jan 2014 at 22:29

Are these still due mid-January? NEED low power ITX gaming set-up.

Boomstick777 · 4 Jan 2014 at 01:16

Kaveri review by some shady source..

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2795083406

Google translate..

humbug · 4 Jan 2014 at 01:53

Boomstick777 said:
Kaveri review by some shady source..

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2795083406

Google translate..

Wow... hang on. wPrime, Sandra and Supper PI are Floating Point performance, its what AMD have always been weak at. (Gaming)

Are those slides telling me Floating Point performance is up 25% clock for clock? its impressive if it is, and much much more acceptable performance full stop.

CineBench is integer performance, thats up a solid 10%, not bad. not bad at all.

Martini1991 · 4 Jan 2014 at 01:58

humbug said:
Wow... hang on. wPrime, Sandra and Supper PI are Floating Point performance, its what AMD have always been weak at. (Gaming)

Are those slides telling me Floating Point performance is up 25% clock for clock? its impressive if it is, and much much more acceptable performance full stop.

CineBench is integer performance, thats up a solid 10%, not bad. not bad at all.

I believe I talked about this optimism in 2012

Also, I think you have it the other way round, Cinebench is Floating point as far as I'm aware.

d_brennen · 4 Jan 2014 at 02:02

One thing AMD is good at is getting silicon to market before any "leaks". You'd need a bulldozer scoop of salt to go with those benchmarks

humbug · 4 Jan 2014 at 02:10

Martini1991 said:
I believe I talked about this optimism in 2012

Also, I think you have it the other way round, Cinebench is Floating point as far as I'm aware.

What optimism are you talking about?

wPrime, sandra and Supper PI work in memory operations, Floating Point

Martini1991 · 4 Jan 2014 at 02:11

"PD's clock for clock 25% better than Bulldozer"
Is what you were saying back in 2012.

humbug · 4 Jan 2014 at 02:12

Martini1991 said:
"PD's clock for clock 25% better than Bulldozer"

Well its not, and how does that relate to this? your not making any sense.

Martini1991 · 4 Jan 2014 at 02:14

Nvm, you're obviously tired.