This morning DigiTimes is reporting on a unconfirmed rumour that AMD's new APU, Godavari, will be arriving towards the end of May of this year. This goes along with the leak that WCCFtech reported on this weekend, they have information that the chip will be a Kaveri design with up to four Steamroller cores, a GCN 1.1 base GPU with up to 512 stream processors and a dual-channel DDR3 memory in an FM2+ socket. If their information is accurate you can expect to see models with 65W or 95W TDPs and boost clocks in the 4GHz range depending on the model. Also worth noting is the rumour that AMD has placed orders with ASMedia Technology for USB 3.1 controller ICs for release in September.
"AMD will launch Godavari series APUs at the end of May to compete with Intel's Broadwell and Skylake platforms, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers."
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This is sad. There is nothing
This is sad. There is nothing exciting on the CPU front from AMD. Nothing at all.
NVidia and Intel fanboys bash
NVidia and Intel fanboys bash AMD because they have a herd mentality.
I bought a Dell XPS 8700 (with core i7-4770) and all USB2(4) and USB3(2) ports are meshed up. The ports disconnect and lock-up the whole system randomly.
I suspect that Intel’s chipset is responsible for this.
The solution is to replace the MB that uses a recent chipset.
No one even talks about Intel and NVidia screw up in these forums.
There are lots of trolls on all tech websites.
I’m painfully aware and have
I’m painfully aware and have been overly vocal about the way nvidia treats people who have to deal directly with them. They shafted Shield Tablet owners terribly hard. Also try selling silent computers and having half of your systems loudest component’s being the coil whine from the GPU. Quite embarrassing and annoying to deal with really.
I also lost a lot of respect for newegg during that time. (Steer very clear of their third party sellers…)
However I’m a huge HUGE fan of the new cherry-trail/X series intel processors. They are VERY cool chips and when tweaked right shockingly powerful.
With that being said, I’m also cursing right now because I want to build an APU powered gaming rig for fun this week.. I wish I could get this chip now. 16gb of 1600+ with tons of VRAM allocated, nice SSD.. Silent cooling. It needs to fit in the milk crate bike rack I use for LAN’s..
Maybe I’ll go with an i5.. We’ll see!
I’m pretty sure I
I’m pretty sure I miss-understand, but, ” 512 stream processor” does that imply that this APU will have the power of a 7750 on chip? If that’s true, that’s insane. That’s 720p with medium settings on most games. That’s a gaming APU that would truly never never need a video card. Most APU gamers plan add a discreet gpu, or do a crossfire apu gpu setup, but this guy, if I am understanding the video power corectly, this guy would be fine on it’s own.
if i remember correctly,
if i remember correctly, Kaveri’s A10 7850K could play BF4 at 720p high settings off of the integrated GPU.
not class leading or anything, but still more than reasonable for a budget system
I think you are right for
I think you are right for 30-40 fps, I was thinkin at 60fps, I tend to turn setting down to keep up my fps.
Like you said, not game-changing but very cool indeed.