Monday, October 28th 2013
AMD "Kaveri" Desktop APU Launch Date Revealed
A leaked AMD slide detailed key dates in the product launch cycle for the company's next-generation desktop APU, codenamed "Kaveri." The chip will be officially announced on December 5, 2013. This is when AMD will post press-releases about the chip, but lack of market availability will make it more of a soft-launch. The chips should begin to ship to OEM vendors by late-December, 2013. It won't be until mid-February, 2014, that you'll be able to buy one of these chips in the retail channel. Built in the new socket FM2+ package, supporting the company's new A88X chipset, "Kaveri" will feature CPU cores based on the next-generation "Steamroller" micro-architecture, which offers an incremental (conservatively, around 10 percent) performance upgrade over "Piledriver;" a new GPU based on the Graphics CoreNext micro-architecture, TrueAudio technology, support for faster DDR3 memory standards, and PCI-Express gen 3.0 bus interface.
Source:
VR-Zone
30 Comments on AMD "Kaveri" Desktop APU Launch Date Revealed
Dedicated audio core processor. More amd true audio?
I don't really believe that they could feed all of those with just the dual channel DDR3 interface that is supported on FM2+ motherboards, since that's even more stream cores than the HD 7770 has.
I wonder what trick they'll have up their sleeves. Stacked GDDR5? On chip cache? They surely have the tech for that last option, judging by the Xbox1 chip design(GCN core count is also very close to XB1). We'll see soon enough I suppose.
Nothing to get excited about then.
From a HPC standpoint, shared memory pointers between CPU and GPU is pretty awesome. It can enable tighter coupling of GPU and CPU components at both the hardware and software levels.
Looking more and more like they weren't able to manage it...:cry:
No leaks whatsoever regarding a potential AM3+ refresh though, and I've personally got the feeling that its just not gonna happen. For one, they seem to have switched to another way of power management in both new GPU's and APU, but the AM3+ socket doesn't support that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm skeptical as f**k, but that doesn't mean that I get things mixed up. There's only so much that multi-core and x86 in general can do to performance... that's why we need a damn computation paradigm shift so bad...
Also, 3423423-cores CPUs are dead, get over it. As much as I like performance that I can "see" (moar coarz/moar gigglehurtz!!!), HSA has the chance to be something truly revolutionary. Sadly tho, 8 out of 10 people I come across, real life or internet, have no clue what exactly that entails to begin with.
Truth is, x86 is getting pathetic (unless they switch manufacturing materials to something *cough* new... *cough* paradigm shifting stuff *cough*), it has no real long-term future...