AMD 7th Generation APU Lineup And Specifications Leaked - Flagship SKU Features 4 x86 Excavator Based Cores and 8 GCN 3.0 CUs

AMD is getting ready to unveil its 7th Generation APU lineup at Computex in a few weeks, but since our readers tin can't wait that long, nosotros thought we would post the specifications of AMD's upcoming lineup of AM4 APUs anyways. The brand new processors will be landing in June along with the AM4 motherboards and will exist the first to feature Excavator on the mainstream desktop platform. They will offer significant performance increases over the previous iterations of Kaveri and Carrizo (Mobility).

AMD's 7th Generation APU specifications leaked - 50% faster than Kaveri

All vi SKUs fall into the full power (65W) or low power (35W) variants. All SKUs use the AM4 socket and back up DDR4-2400 memory. Information technology is worth noting that the boards supporting the AM4 socket volition be landing next month in June. AMD will be revealing the platform at Computex in a few days and nosotros expect to see the entire lineup of AMD's 7^thursday Generation APUs present at that place as well. Raven Ridge volition exist succeeding Bristol Ridge and will be based on the 14nm process with Zen cores.

The flagship SKUs will have a total of 12 compute cores present on the bundle. Out of these, 4 will belong to the Compute side while the remaining 8 volition form the Graphics side. The superlative end SKU will have iv x86 Excavator based cores clocked at iii.7 Ghz (Turbo upwards to four.ii Ghz) with 2 MB L2 Enshroud. This will be complimented by 8 GCN three.0 CUs for a total of 512 Streaming Processors. The low ability (35W) variant will be clocked at 2.9 Ghz (boost up to three.8 Ghz).
The functioning tier SKUs in the lineup volition have a total of x compute cores – divided into iv for compute and 6 for graphics respectively. The x86 Excavator based cores will exist clocked at 3.5 Ghz (Boost upwards to 3.8 Ghz) with ii MB of L2 cache. The half-dozen graphics CUs firm 384 GCN 3.0 cores. Clock rate of the GPU side of things is not known to us at the moment. The low ability variant (35W) will be clocked at 2.8 Ghz (Heave upwardly to 3.v Ghz).
The upkeep SKUs in the lineup will take a total of 6 Compute Cores. The ii x86 Excavator based cores will be clocked at 3.5 Ghz (Heave upward to 3.8 Ghz) and will share 1 MB of L2 cache. The graphics side of things will house 4 CUs with 256 GCN iii.0 stream processors. The low ability variant (35 Westward) will be clocked at 3.0 Ghz (boost up to 3.four Ghz).

AMD'southward new Excavator based APUs offering l% more performance than their predecssor.

AMD'southward 7th Generation APUs on paper appear to be very Carrizo-similar in their specifications apart from the fact that they are full fledged desktop fries. The amount of GCN cores featured maxes out at 512. As mentioned to a higher place the processor compages will be Excavator while the GPU architecture should exist a revised iteration of GCN (dubbed GCN iii.0). Bristol Ridge APUs are going to accept ane very interesting feature: support for DDR4 memory, specifically dual aqueduct DDR4 2400 Mhz. You might call back how APUs are very dependent on memory, then this is going to exist a very nice feature for AMD'south shiny new APUs.

AMD'due south adjacent generation Bristol Ridge's Excavator cores will accept high clock rates which means that performance gains will be architectural in nature likewise as the usual clock reward. Clock for clock comparing with Kaveri should exist very interesting. Gaming performance increase is stated to be around 20% of Carrizo Mobility and over 50% of Kaveri! The APU will have full HSA support and OpenCL ii.0. Information technology volition also have the AZ/I2S Sound Co-processor on board for audio processing (duh). The chipset is ofcourse Promontory. Its worth mentioning that Summit Ridge is at the 14nm node while equally Bristol Ridge is still at 28nm. So all that while remaining on the one-time and trusty 28nm process is quite a feat. Full specifications of the AMD'southward seventh Generation 'Bristol Ridge' platform:

AMD seventh Generation APU 'Bristol Ridge' APU Lineup and Specifications

WCCFTech	Radeon	TDP	Compute Cores	CPU Cores	CPU Clock (Max/Base)	L2 Cache	CU/Radeon Cores
TBD	R7	65W	12	4	four.2 Ghz / 3.7 Ghz	2 MB	viii / 512
TBD	R7	35W	12	4	3.8 Ghz / 2.9 Ghz	2 MB	8 / 512
TBD	R7	65W	10	four	3.8 Ghz / 3.v Ghz	2 Mb	vi / 384
TBD	R7	35W	10	four	3.5 Ghz / 2.8 Ghz	2 MB	six / 384
TBD	R5	65W	half-dozen	two	3.8 Ghz / three.5 Ghz	1 MB	4 / 256
TBD	R5	35W	half dozen	2	3.iv Ghz / 3.0 Ghz	1 MB	4 / 256