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Kaveri APU Architecture Detailed
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Like Jaguar?
I think Jaguar is Steamroller, in the same way Richland / Trinity and Vishera are Piledriver, Kaveri being a beefed-up Jaguar core is not a bad thing.
Tho you could be right, I don't know, it just seems sensible to me given that Jaguar is a solid core, its fast per watt.
Trinity escaped into the wild 2/3 months before being "launched"
Dat slippery little Trinity
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Trinity Laptops were out for ages before the Desktop release, it seemed to "launch" but without any buzz/announcement.
AMD's problem with launching stuff in the mobile and embedded market is their size, or rather lack of. They often make up single digit percentages to OEMs, who would rather run their inventory of Trinity and Richland stuff to basically nothing before shipping Kaveri. On the desktop box CPU front, AMD can release when they feel like it, then it's up to distributors/retailers to shift them.
From a prototype Kaveri notebook I've seen up and running, I suspect OEMs have APUs either now or very soon.
From a prototype Kaveri notebook I've seen up and running, I suspect OEMs have APUs either now or very soon.
Agreed.
Tho I have seen a Kabini Laptop in an Orange flavoured supermarket, at the end of a row of Intel Laptops.... I think it was an A6-5200 HP or it could have been a Samsung, it was a nice little 14 something Inch Laptop, but a bit pricy at £500.
No, they're separate bloodlines. They share GCN tech on the IGP side, but the CPU cores are different architectures.
Jaguar is great, but it wouldn't efficiently scale up to full steamroller size. The top-end Kabini APUs will be an interesting comparison to the low-power Kaveris, when it all hit market, though. At stock, they will probably still be quite widely separated (2.0Ghz vs 3.0Ghz wouldn't be fair), but with a bit of tweaking, it would be worth a look.
The fact that Kabini got into the A series naming scheme is interesting. It either shows AMD are very confident that they deserve it performance wise or that AMD's naming scheme is even more bonkers than the competition
Ok.
The fact that Kabini got into the A series naming scheme is interesting. It either shows AMD are very confident that they deserve it performance wise or that AMD's naming scheme is even more bonkers than the competition
AMD with Bob the Builder bonkers naming schemes? no! never.... i'm not having that!!!!!
The fact that Kabini got into the A series naming scheme is interesting. It either shows AMD are very confident that they deserve it performance wise or that AMD's naming scheme is even more bonkers than the competition
True.
I suppose the A6 Kabini is 4-core, whereas the A6 Richland/Trinity is 2-core.
And, in auction-site-seller-speak:
4x2Ghz = 8Ghz (Kabini),
and
2x4ghz = 8Ghz (Richland),
so they are exactly equal
