Kaveri A10 spotted in the wild!

[jasonelmore]

Sooo, the desktop chip almost catches the ultra book chip? *sigh*

and it takes over double the frequency to match the ultrabook chip lol 1.7ghz (intel i5) vs 3.5ghz (kavari)

Legitimate question: why is amd so far behind intel on Chipsets?

[zalbard]

Legitimate question: why is amd so far behind intel on Chipsets?

One of the reasons would be because AMD doesn't update them nearly as often.

[Piledriver]

Title -> Kaveri presentation leaked, fails to impress

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In a series of gaming tests the A10-7850K was pitted against the Core i5-4670K with Intel HD 4000 graphics and it wiped the floor with it, ending up 35 percent to 91 percent faster in games like Tombraider, Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause and Battlefield 4.

IPC is about 20 percent higher, but that does not paint the full picture. Tests leaked by Chinese tech sites are showing a 10 to 33 percent performance improvement across the board. This is a good score, we rarely see such performance gains with new x86 architectures these days.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the presentation involved Mantle. AMD claims it will deliver a performance boost of up to 45 percent in Battlefield 4 and in some cases we could be looking at even more. For example in Starswarm by Oxide Games, the A8-7800 delivers less than 10FPS in DirectX mode, but on Mantle it churns out a relatively playable 30FPS

Kaveri looks like a good chip, with some impressive performance gains across the board

some tech site just confused me.

[Lightman]

Title -> Kaveri presentation leaked, fails to impress

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some tech site just confused me.

It's called NDA

No serious tech site will follow up that leak as they are under embargo.
Week to go for some official info if believing leaked slide Kaveri launch date - 14/01/14

[xVeinx]

The leaked data is informative, but gives an incomplete picture. Wait till Anandtech and others get a chance to play with them, and we might get a better picture. Or just give one to Flanker....

[paulbagz]

So keen to get MSIs two new boards.

-PB

[Kai Robinson]

Here's the latest AnandTech article on Kaveri:

http://anandtech.com/show/7643/amds-...ch-information

[fellix_bg]

Kaveri spots 256-bit quad-channel memory interface, according to this post, but only for the BGA version.

[informal]

Kaveri spots 256-bit quad-channel memory interface, according to this post, but only for the BGA version.

Hans is definitely correct wrt physical aspect of the chip but I doubt the BGA version will sport QC memory :/.

[Darakian]

Quad channel for the opteron variety then?

[[XC] Lead Head]

Sounds like the memory controller might be related (even carried over from?) The PS4/XBox One APU?

[FlanK3r]

unb= hsa controller in Kaveri?

[PedantOne]

UNB is "northbrige"

[Hans de Vries]

Hans is definitely correct wrt physical aspect of the chip but I doubt the BGA version will sport QC memory :/.

Yes, unlikely.....

[Dimitriman]

Quad channel for the opteron variety then?

Bingo.

[qcmadness]

Yes, unlikely.....

It could be the lower density of MC phy for higher frequency headroom

[Andrew LB]

It's called 28nm bulk process node...

The transition from GloFo 32nm to 28nm is a direct shrink with no additional changes to the process. It's not like they went from a high performance, low-k process to some generic "no frills" process which focuses on quantity not quality.

http://www.globalfoundries.com/techn...edge_tech.aspx

[qcmadness]

It's called 28nm bulk process node...

In GF's words, super high performance = SOI

[FlanK3r]

I heard its 28nm SHP for high density

[LordEC911]

I heard its 28nm SHP for high density

Slide said 28SHP.
I would assume it is the best balance of speed/density.

Edit- Kaveri almost doubles the transistor count and fits it into roughly the same die size.

[Heinz68]

Hope I remember it now Olivon (but Olivion seems as some hero from Greek mythology )

and not insult.

[ilkkahy]

I dont know if i break some kind of forum etiquette by posting quote from another forum which is written in finnish but ill do it anyway:

"Kaveri ei tue 256-bittist? muistiv?yl??.
V?yl? on joko 2x 64-bit tai 4x 32-bit (tai 8x 16-bit Clamshell), riippuen mit? muistityyppi? k?ytet??n. J?lkimm?inen vaihtoehto l?ytyy piirilt? fyysisesti, mutta se on disabloitu julkaistavissa tuotteissa.

Puutteellisella tuella (Kaveri) varustetun Sandran n?ytt?mien pilipalilukemien perusteella uutisien v??nt?minen on melko turhaa."

That was written by Stilt to muropaketti in december. He says there that Kaveri does not support 256bit memory bus.

[Piledriver]

So basically AMD already have the fastest piece of silicon on the world they just need developers to catch up.

[Kai Robinson]

Here you go ladles and jellybeans - pre-orders:

http://community.amd.com/community/a...tion-apu-today

[Particle]

Unfortunately, only system integrators are listed there instead of stores that sell individual CPUs.