AMD Richland APU processor range key specs are listed

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http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/51145-amd-richland-apu-processor-range-key-specs-listed/

AMD’s upcoming Richland APUs will share a lot of the characteristics of the current Trinity APU range. Some commentators even refer to it as Trinity 2.0. The processors are both fabricated using the 32nm process and use the Piledriver CPU architecture. However AMD has managed to get more MHz out of these new APUs while maintaining the power-envelope. Also to sweeten the deal Richland APUs will feature updated Radeon HD 8000 series GPUs and faster DDR3-2133MHz dual-channel memory controllers.

Looking at the current top of the range Trinity APU compared to the Richland APU waiting in the wings; the Trinity A10-5800K has a base speed of 3.8GHz and CPU Turbo speed of 4.2GHz, the Richland A10-6800K will have a base speed of 4.1GHz and a CPU Turbo speed of 4.4GHz. Furthermore the 800MHz HD 7660D GPU in the A10-5800K is to be upgraded to an 844MHz HD 8670 GPU in the Richland APU. The TDPs remain the same; we might assume that AMD has improved power management and a made few architectural refinements over its predecessor.

Below is a good comparison chart courtesy of XBit labs. I’ve shaded the Richland APUs in Blue to highlight them.

 

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Looking forward to these

Wonder how much they'll cost though...

It looks like these are a replacement for Trinity, so probably about the same.

 

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They failed to market Llano too, ddr3 is never going to provide the bandwidth for those resolutions,
We will have to wait for their hsa with Kaveri. by then intel will probably catch up lol,

Kaveri will be out late this year, 28nm, Steamroller, GCN GPU and probable integrated on chip vRAM.

That will be the 1080P entry gaming chip.

 

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Let me put it this way...when the APUs got enough grunt for 1920 res for desktop/HTPC, and 1600 res for laptops...I can honestly see Trinity CPU and laptops flying off the shelfs (so long as the pricing is right). But graphic aside, they step up on the grunt on CPU side of things as well, especially for laptop as I think people are more likely play light-threaded games or older games, mmos etc than the latest AAA FPS games that would use all 4 cores fully.

You may be right, but think of this also, go to Indian Food's, PCland and Aggro's (no competitor naming) and look for Tinity Laptop's / Desktop's, or even ask one of the staff about them.

They will look at you with a blank expression thinking "what are you talking about?"

That actually is the biggest problem, they have no shelves to fly off.....