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Kaveri APU Architecture Detailed

Unlikely, 28nm, lower power, bunch of upgrades to power usage we've seen for Jaguar and in part for Richland, likely refined/improved resonant clock mesh.

I would think a stock clock increase + IPC improvement, in some situations overall performance increase will be massive. I would expect 10% in almost anything, 15% in the majority of situations and up to 30-40% in certain situations. They are going from 4 instructions decoded per clock in a module, to 8, and undoubtedly in some situations with 2 cores loaded that was holding performance back hugely.
 
tbh said:
Looks like it has been "delayed", although it was never likely to ship this year anyway:

Rumours point to AMD Kaveri delay
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Yeah seen that :)

As Bit-tech cautioned

A, DigiTimes gave no reasoning for this.
B, They, apparently, are simply quoting an anonymous source from the "bank of Taiwanese industry" who also failed to give any context
C, DigiTimes source,- 'bank of Taiwanese industry' has been proven an unreliable source before.

D, my observation, what and why would the 'bank of Taiwanese industry' know about it or have to do with it?
E, my own spin on it; Rumor milling :cool:

F, anonymous sources tell me 'ARM v9' is delayed until march 2016!

December 2013 or Febuary 2014. its a bit here or there. but it helps with page hits.

meh....
 
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AMD seriously need to execute, they have all this great tech, but seem incapable of delivering on time, by the time they do deliver it, something better is always around the corner from the competitors..

Check yourself before you wreck yourself AMD :p
 
humbug said:
FM2+ (Kaveri) Motherboards starting to surface.
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Very cool.

I'll likely be building a Richland system in a month or so and would love to have the option of an easy upgrade to Kaveri, hopefully these will make their way into retail sooner rather than later!
 
tbh said:
Very cool.

I'll likely be building a Richland system in a month or so and would love to have the option of an easy upgrade to Kaveri, hopefully these will make their way into retail sooner rather than later!
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Yeah, there was some speculation about compatibility, as it turns out FM2+ is compatible with Trinity and Richland.

So you can get an FM2+ MOBO with Richland, and then just swap it out for Kaveri at a later date.

Sorted....:D
 
humbug said:
So you can get an FM2+ MOBO with Richland, and then just swap it out for Kaveri at a later date.

Sorted....:D
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That was my thinking.

Could even go for the bottom of the range dual core Richland since it is just a "placeholder" until Kaveri is released and put the money saved towards better memory and CPU heatsink.

I love it when a plan comes together... :cool:
 
tbh said:
Some news of Kaveri's successor, apparently it will be called "Carrizo":

http://wccftech.com/amd-carrizo-apu-feature-excavator-core-arrives-2015-gen-radeon-core-65w-tdp/

Expected to be Excavator based and may even be FM2+ compatible, although I would expect it to need DDR4 to get the most out of the integrated GPU.
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Thanks for the link :)

I'm somewhat sceptical about it, Excavator was on the cards and I think it still is, but that slide they are using is more than a year old..

AMD and GloFlow are working on 20nm SOI, the question is will it be ready for mass production before 2015.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-...-in-FD-SOI-for-the-20-nm-Process-267519.shtml
 
Any idea when the FM2+ boards will be available? I've got a 6800K without a board, and was going to sell it - but I might hold on if they're out soon.
 
teppic said:
Any idea when the FM2+ boards will be available?
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I'd like to know this too, going to be building a Richland system soon and would much rather go with a FM2+ socket to facilitate an easier upgrade path for the future.

I'm guessing that we'll get an estimated release date for the ASUS board shortly.
 
Boards with 512MB/1024MB GDDR5 chips tacked on wouldn't be all that far fetched IMO. The APUs probably won't benefit from the very fastest RAM as found on high end GPUs, so it would be a handy outlet for the RAM fabricators to get shot of low binning (read: cheap) chips. AMD have a history of slightly bonkers twisting of established technology, like Sideport
 
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