A10-8850K | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:39:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png A10-8850K | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Asrock adds support of AMD ‘Godavari’ processors to FM2+ mainboards https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/asrock-adds-support-for-amd-godavari-processors-to-fm2-mainboards/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/asrock-adds-support-for-amd-godavari-processors-to-fm2-mainboards/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:24:50 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=240624 Advanced Micro Devices plans to release its code-named “Godavari” accelerated processing units (also known as “Kaveri Refresh”) sometimes in June, but manufacturers of mainboards already add their support to their platforms. Asrock recently enabled operation of AMD “Godavari” hybrid microprocessors on its FM2A78M-HD+ R2.0 mainboard with a new BIOS release. The company will soon add …

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Advanced Micro Devices plans to release its code-named “Godavari” accelerated processing units (also known as “Kaveri Refresh”) sometimes in June, but manufacturers of mainboards already add their support to their platforms.

Asrock recently enabled operation of AMD “Godavari” hybrid microprocessors on its FM2A78M-HD+ R2.0 mainboard with a new BIOS release. The company will soon add support for the chips to its other FM2+ motherboards. Keeping in mind minimal difference between the original “Kaveri” and “Kaveri Refresh”, it is nearly guaranteed that the latter will be compatible with all FM+2 platforms. Other makers of mainboards will follow Asrock in the coming weeks and months.

The “Godavari” accelerated processing units will belong to the A-series 8000-sequence family, although there are no architectural difference between them and presently available A-series 7000-sequence APUs.

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The upcoming “Kaveri Refresh” accelerated processing units will feature two or four “Steamroller” cores, AMD Radeon R7 or R5 graphics processing units (based on the GCN 1.1 architecture), heterogeneous system architecture capabilities, dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, FM2+ form-factor and so on. The main difference between “Kaveri” and “Godavari” chips is slightly higher CPU and GPU clock-rates of the latter.

The family of “Godavari” processors will include four chips with unlocked multiplier – the A10-8850K, the A8-8650K, the A6-8550K as well as the Athlon X4 870K – designed for overclockers. It is unknown whether overclocking potential of the new APUs and CPUs will be any better than that of presently available offerings featuring similar design and made using the same 28nm SHP fabrication process at GlobalFoundries.

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KitGuru Says: Keeping in mind that the only difference between the “Kaveri” and “Kaveri Refresh” chips are names, it is highly likely that even without BIOS updates everything will work just fine…

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Specs of AMD ‘Kaveri Refresh’ revealed: no performance boost coming https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/specs-of-amd-kaveri-refresh-revealed-no-performance-boost-coming/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/specs-of-amd-kaveri-refresh-revealed-no-performance-boost-coming/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:08:26 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=233242 Advanced Micro Devices is expected to introduce new versions of code-named “Kaveri” accelerated processing units (APUs) with a bit higher performance in the first half of the year. In fact, the company is already shipping samples of its “Kaveri Refresh” products also known as “Godovari” to clients, which is why their specifications inevitably leak. Chinese …

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Advanced Micro Devices is expected to introduce new versions of code-named “Kaveri” accelerated processing units (APUs) with a bit higher performance in the first half of the year. In fact, the company is already shipping samples of its “Kaveri Refresh” products also known as “Godovari” to clients, which is why their specifications inevitably leak.

Chinese VR-Zone has published specs of twelve processors that belong to the “Kaveri Refresh” family. Just like existing “Kaveri” chips, the new accelerated processing units will feature two or four “Steamroller” cores, AMD Radeon R7 or R5 graphics engines (powered by the GCN 1.1 architecture), heterogeneous system architecture capabilities, FM2+ form-factor and all the other features.

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The “Godovari” products will belong to the A-series 8000-sequence family, even despite of the fact that there will be no architectural difference between them and currently available A-series 7000-sequence APUs. The only difference between “Kaveri” and “Godovari” chips is slightly higher CPU and GPU clock-rates of the latter. However, the difference will be so negligible that performance advantage will be barely noticeable in real-world applications.

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AMD will offer four “Kaveri Refresh” chips with unlocked multiplier – the A10-8850K, the A8-8650K, the A6-8550K as well as the Athlon X4 870K. The new processors should enable easy overclocking, but it is unclear whether their overclocking potential is any better than that of the current-gen APUs/CPUs. Keeping in mind that AMD produces “Kaveri” chips using super-high-performance 28nm (28SHP) process technology at GlobalFoundries, the chips can operate at high frequencies, but their overclocking potential is very limited.

It remains to be seen when exactly AMD intends to release its “Kaveri Refresh”/”Godovari” products commercially. It is logical to expect the new chips to arrive in May or June.

AMD did not comment on the news-story.

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KitGuru Says: Specifications of the refreshed family of APUs do not look exactly impressive, especially keeping in mind not very high performance of AMD’s existing hybrid processors. But to make the matters worse, AMD’s next-generation APU’s code-named “Bristol Ridge” APUs are over 1.5 years away.

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