Sunday, November 23rd 2014
AMD Mobile "Carrizo" Family of APUs Arrive in 2015
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today at its Future of Compute event announced the addition of its first high performance system-on-a-chip (SoC), codenamed "Carrizo", and a mainstream SoC codenamed "Carrizo-L" as part of the company's 2015 AMD Mobile APU family roadmap. In collaboration with hardware and software partners, these new 2015 AMD Mobile APUs are designed as complete solutions for gaming, productivity applications, and ultra high-definition 4K experiences. With support for Microsoft DirectX 12, OpenCL 2.0, AMD's Mantle API, AMD FreeSync and support for Microsoft's upcoming Windows 10 operating system, the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family enables the experiences consumers expect.
"We continue to innovate and build upon our existing IP to deliver great products for our customers," said John Byrne, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics business group, AMD. "AMD's commitment to graphics and compute performance, as expressed by our goal to improve APU energy efficiency 25x by 2020, combines with the latest industry standards and fresh innovation to drive the design of the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family. We are excited about the experiences these new APUs will bring and look forward to sharing more details in the first half of next year."
The flagship "Carrizo" processor will integrate the new x86 CPU core codenamed "Excavator" with next generation AMD Radeon graphics in the world's first Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) 1.0 compliant SoC. The "Carrizo-L" SoC integrates the CPU codenamed "Puma+" with AMD Radeon R-Series GCN GPUs and is intended for mainstream configurations. In addition, an AMD Secure Processor will be integrated into the "Carrizo" and "Carrizo-L" APUs, enabling ARM TrustZone across the entire family for the security commercial customers and consumers expect. Utilizing a single package infrastructure for "Carrizo" and "Carrizo-L," the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family simplifies partner designs across a broad range of commercial and consumer mobile systems.
"Carrizo" and "Carrizo-L," are scheduled to ship in 1H 2015, with laptop and All-in-One systems based on the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family expected in market by mid-year 2015.
"We continue to innovate and build upon our existing IP to deliver great products for our customers," said John Byrne, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics business group, AMD. "AMD's commitment to graphics and compute performance, as expressed by our goal to improve APU energy efficiency 25x by 2020, combines with the latest industry standards and fresh innovation to drive the design of the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family. We are excited about the experiences these new APUs will bring and look forward to sharing more details in the first half of next year."
The flagship "Carrizo" processor will integrate the new x86 CPU core codenamed "Excavator" with next generation AMD Radeon graphics in the world's first Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) 1.0 compliant SoC. The "Carrizo-L" SoC integrates the CPU codenamed "Puma+" with AMD Radeon R-Series GCN GPUs and is intended for mainstream configurations. In addition, an AMD Secure Processor will be integrated into the "Carrizo" and "Carrizo-L" APUs, enabling ARM TrustZone across the entire family for the security commercial customers and consumers expect. Utilizing a single package infrastructure for "Carrizo" and "Carrizo-L," the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family simplifies partner designs across a broad range of commercial and consumer mobile systems.
"Carrizo" and "Carrizo-L," are scheduled to ship in 1H 2015, with laptop and All-in-One systems based on the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family expected in market by mid-year 2015.
40 Comments on AMD Mobile "Carrizo" Family of APUs Arrive in 2015
If both dies can be in the same package on mobile devices, then why would there be a need for two sockets on desktops?
Anyway Carrizo looks promising even without the HBM. Excavator and color compression will help both cpu and gpu performance. The pin compatibility between Carrizo and Carrizo-L is also a big plus and it looks like this is the future way of AMD building new SOCs. Remembering that the ARM SOC and the x86 equivalent will also be pin compatibles, maybe in a couple of years AMD will have one socket where someone will be able to insert anything from 2W TDP to 150W, ARM or x86 based.
If anybody today in 2014 thinks that AMD can compete with Intel over power and effiecency - he is being completely delusional.
I really hate seeing things go that way, but intel is so far ahead, with the sounds of the construction workers here building the world's first 10nm facility.
Yes - you can offer decent power, decent price and a fairly good platform. Just don't expect it to survive much longer with a sad technological infiriority. Intel is marching so fast forward that today you have science-fiction tier of power\effiecency ratio chips like the M5Y70. I am somewhat concerned about AMD's future in this category.
Regardless, looking forward to see what it brings to the table!
Carrizo uses Excavator cores which have up to 30% greater IPC over Steamroller cores in addition to a host of other architectural changes and improvements. Smaller node size primarily buys you lower power consumption yet AMD has drastically lowered the power consumption on Carrizo even at 28nm. As we will see Carrizo is a significant step forward in APU performance.
wccftech.com/amd-launching-carrizo-apus-december-features-gen-gcn-excavator-cores/
I'll leave this at: I'm glad AMD is rolling out something new but we should all wait and reserve judgement for how it actually turns out instead of running on the expectations we already have.
Lithography is irrelevant, now. We're not going to receive any performance boost from it. They sell you fancy lower numbers b/c finfet is cheap to produce and every time they can go a little smaller it makes them more cash. High performance is actually dead (see power consumption when OCing).
All in all. The real point is that we want to see what this sucker can do. :p