AMD Trinity FM2 APU Preview Review

Item: AMD Trinity FM2 APU Preview
Author: TPU Staff

cadaveca

on Sep 26th, 2012,

in Processors.

Manufacturer: AMD

AMD FM2 Chipsets »

Introduction

You've seen the leaks and read the speculation, but that is all about to change. Yes, the new AMD FM2 APUs have landed at TechPowerUp. Today, we only have a preview of the AMD APUs, but you can definitely expect to see a whole lot of APU reviews in the coming days as they get reviewed by TechPowerUp and other sites.
Of course, I posted pictures of my first test chip back in July. I have since then had the pleasure of using an AMD FM2 APU for daily tasks with my main rig, and I have been using that AMD A10-5800K on the sly for the last three months. Let's just say, yes, I am very familiar with them. A short time before today, as I was prepping the actual review by doing all the needed benchmarks, AMD let us know that we could go ahead and post a preview to show you guys not only what is coming by also including some game performance numbers. A lot of people are asking whether this is "Just another AMD Launch?" and "Why do I even care?", so let's see if we can't clear the air a bit and get some of those questions answered. Let's take a look without any further ado. A list of detailed specifications, and the models that should be launching in just a short time, are shown below:

Specifications

Specifications
MANUFACTURER:	AMD
MODEL:	AMD A-Series APU
TECH/PACKAGE:	32 nm, FM2 socket
TDP:	CPU Power: 65W and 100W configurations
PROCESSOR:	“Piledriver” 32nm HKMG process core (up to 4 cores), up to 128 KB L1 Cache (64 KB Instruction, 64 KB Data) Up to 4 MB L2, 2 x 128-bit FPUs / compute module
MEMORY:	Up to DDR3 1866 @ 1.5V
GRAPHICS:	Up to 384 Radeon Cores 2.0, DirectX 11 capable, UVD3, VCE
DISPLAYS:	3x Digital Display: each supporting Display Port, HDMI or DVI 1x Additional digital display supported using DP 1.2 daisy-chain connection -VGA on FCH
POWER MANAGEMENT:	Multiple low-power states 32-nm process for decreased power consumption System Management Mode (SMM) ACPI-compliant, including support for processor performance states (P-states), processor power states (C-states), and sleep states including S0, S3, S4, and S5 Per compute module power gating (CC6) PCIe core power gating PCIe speed power policy GPU power gating of Radeon Cores and video decode (UVD3) AMD Turbo Core 3.0 technology

Models

APU Model	A10-5800K	A10-5700	A8-5600K	A8-5500	A6-5400K	A4-5300
AMD Radeon Brand	HD 7660D	HD 7660D	HD 7560D	HD 7560D	HD 7540D	HD 7480D
TDP	100W	65W	100W	65W	65W	65W
AMD Radeon Cores	384	384	256	256	192	128
GPU Clockspeed	800 MHz	800 MHz	760 MHz	760 MHz	760 MHz	723 MHz
CPU Cores	4	4	4	4	2	2
CPU Clock (Turbo/Base) GHz	4.2/ 3.8	4.0/ 3.4	3.9/ 3.6	3.7/ 3.2	3.8/ 3.6	3.6/ 3.4
Total Cache	4 MB	4 MB	4 MB	4 MB	1 MB	1 MB
Max DDR3	1866 MHz	1866 MHz	1866 MHz	1866 MHz	1866 MHz	1600 MHz
AMD Turbo CORE 3.0	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Unlocked	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No