New AMD Kaveri APUs

[Virssagòn]

Hey guys,

AMD finally showed some details of the new Kaveri APU, especially the A10-7850K.
And I found something interesting in their slides. In one of the slides they mention that it will support up to four multithreaded steamroller cores! That could mean that it has some kind of hyperthreading, so it has more then 1 thread on 1 core like on an i7.

I'm talking about this slide:

What do you think guys?

I wrote a little article on my little site about the new details and some other things.
www.blackholetec.com

 

[PCunicorn]

Thanks for sharing this. I have been waiting to see what Kaveri offers. The fact it has 7750 level graphics is awesome. Kinda sucks there is no real benches though, I want to see how it compares to a i5 :/

 

[Virssagòn]

Thanks for sharing this. I have been waiting to see what Kaveri offers. The fact it has 7750 level graphics is awesome. Kinda sucks there is no real benches though, I want to see how it compares to a i5 :/

I think early benchmark leaks will be available in mid-December. Trying to get one for a review, but that will be for January.

 

[StrangleHold]

Don't think Hyperthreading. Pretty sure it just means it can be up to 4 modules. Bet the APU will just have 2, I just don't see a APU with onboard video and northbridge and 4 modules, would be massive at 28nm. My hunch is that there is going to be a FX later in 2014 with up to 4 modules.

 

[Agent Smith]

Isn't the term APU meant for a graphics processor or GPU?

 

[TrainTrackHack]

It won't be hyperthreading, it'll be similar to what they have now (2 integer cores in 1 module) - they're finally giving each integer core a dedicated decoder, though.

Isn't the term APU meant for a graphics processor or GPU?

It's CPU+GPU on the same chip.

 

[Virssagòn]

It won't be hyperthreading, it'll be similar to what they have now (2 integer cores in 1 module) - they're finally giving each integer core a dedicated decoder, though.

It's CPU+GPU on the same chip.

Yea, I just gave hyperthreading as example, because most people don't know how the FX '8'-core is build. AMD also gave it out as true 8-core while that wasn't true.

 

[Virssagòn]

Don't think Hyperthreading. Pretty sure it just means it can be up to 4 modules. Bet the APU will just have 2, I just don't see a APU with onboard video and northbridge and 4 modules, would be massive at 28nm. My hunch is that there is going to be a FX later in 2014 with up to 4 modules.

Yes, I just read some other articles and in one it says 4 steamroller cores ranked in 2 modules. So I think it will be only 4 threads guys! I'm sorry, I was wrong...

The slide is pretty confusing saying up to 4 multithreaded cores, but like you said, it could be meaning the possible FX-line. (weird on a conference about kaveri APUs)

But looking at this slide, you can clearly see 2 times 2 cores in 1 module with 2MB shared L2 cache => in total 2 modules, 4 cores and 4MB L2 cache.

 

[PCunicorn]

If it's just 30 percent better than the 6800K it will be nearly 3570K level so that would be awesome. If I saw some benches I would think about getting a 6800K and FM2+ board than selling the 6800K and buying Kaveri when it comes out.

 

[spirit]

If I saw some benches I would think about getting a 6800K and FM2+ board than selling the 6800K and buying Kaveri when it comes out.

You'd spend less money by just getting the Kaveri or whatever it's called when it comes out.