Kaveri APU on it's way

[Johan45]

Just found this floating around Kaveri APU Launch

Home>CPUsAMD Kaveri APU Launch Details: Desktop, January 14th
by Ryan Smith on November 11, 2013 9:33 PM EST
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Kicking off today is AMD’s annual developer conference, which now goes by the name APU13. There will be several APU/CPU related announcements coming out of the show this week, but we’ll start with what’s likely to be the most interesting for our regular readers: the launch date for AMD’s Kaveri APU.



First and foremost, AMD has confirmed that Kaveri will be shipping in Q4’13, with a launch/availability date of January 14th, 2014. For those of you keeping track of your calendars, this is the week after CES 2014, with AMD promising further details on the Kaveri launch for CES.





Second of all, we have confirmation on what the highest shipping APU configuration will be. Kaveri will have up to 4 CPU core (2 modules), which will be based on AMD’s latest revision of their desktop CPU architecture, Steamroller. Meanwhile the GPU will be composed of 8 GCN 1.1 CUs, which would put the SP count at 512 SPs (this would be equivalent to today's desktop Radeon HD 7750). Furthermore AMD is throwing around a floating point performance number – 856 GFLOPS – which thanks to some details found in AMD's footnotes by PCWorld gives us specific clockspeeds and even a product name. A10-7850K CPU clockspeed 3.7GHz, GPU clockspeed 720MHz.

 

[bassnut]

Yes seen that yesterday as well. Also have you noticed the price drops on the FX 9XXX series chips with the 9590 topping out at $399 and the 9370 at $299. Probably why we have seen so many inquiries about them lately.

 

[Johan45]

Yes seen that yesterday as well. Also have you noticed the price drops on the FX 9XXX series chips with the 9590 topping out at $399 and the 9370 at $299. Probably why we have seen so many inquiries about them lately.

Ya that was my thought as well Bassnut. They're a bit more reasonable. Hell the 9370 ( at $250) was only $20 more than what I paid for my original 8350.

 

[telep_man]

Any word on the high end chips? Be that FM2+ or AM3+ just give us SOMETHING!

 

[RGone]

Any word on the high end chips? Be that FM2+ or AM3+ just give us SOMETHING!

Kaveri APU << May be the highest chipset to come from APU in the near future. Seems they may not do the Steamroller in AM3+. So the Kaveri APU chip, being Steamroller, maybe it.

 

[Johan45]

Kaveri APU << May be the highest chipset to come from APU in the near future. Seems they may not do the Steamroller in AM3+. So the Kaveri APU chip, being Steamroller, maybe it.

Seen a roadmap today and there's nothing in the FX line-up for 2014.

 

[telep_man]

Seen a roadmap today and there's nothing in the FX line-up for 2014.

If the rumors about the performance jump are true (of Steamroller being a bigger jump than Piledriver) then why give up on 8 core CPUs? They would make more sense than the first 2 generations.

 

[Johan45]

If the rumors about the performance jump are true (of Steamroller being a bigger jump than Piledriver) then why give up on 8 core CPUs? They would make more sense than the first 2 generations.

They're concentrating on their APU's and the new architecture. The money isn't to be had in the performance desktop segment. They will find room for us eventually but it won't be AM3+ and will in all likely hood include a gpu on die. They'll need to refine their process a lot if they want to squeeze 8 cores and gpu into the same die.

 

[TeknoBug]

Yeah I can see AMD going with FM2 socket for the future chips, AM3+ is kinda hitting a wall now and they just may as well move onto the other socket platform they already have out.

They can already squeeze 8 cores into an APU, aka Jaguar (XBone/PS4), my new laptop has a Jaguar APU (A4 5000) and it's not bad for a low TDP chip.