AMD Carrizo Based Mobility APU Lineup Revealed - FX-8800P Leads The Pack In The "Stoney Ridge" Family

AMD has detailed their upcoming APU codenamed Carrizo which will be featured within mobility platforms. The Carrizo APU family comes in two series, one powered by the powerful x86 Excavator cores while the other APU codenamed Carrizo-L is powered past their x86 PUMA+ core architecture. Yesterday, along with the ISSCC details, we besides covered a leak from 3DMark which was related to the flagship bit of the lineup, known as FX-8800P. Now, it tin can be confirmed that the FX-8800P is indeed the flagship APU of AMD'due south Carrizo lineup along with the other models that volition exist available at launch in mid-2015.

AMD Carrizo APU "Stoney Ridge" Family Unveiled - A-Series, FX-Series, R-Series APUs Detailed

The upcoming APU lineup is interesting since information technology'south but mobile/embedded based with the new A-Series, FX-Series and R-Series fries. Then far, we know of x chips that will be making their way to mobility/embedded platforms in mid-2015 even so there can be fifty-fifty more models planned for launch later. One matter is confirmed that the chips volition be based on a mix of Carrizo and Carrizo-50 specifications and since we have no showtime hand information on that available at the moment, we can't tell what exact core configuration can be found on each model. The FX-8800P will be the flagship of the lineup which is currently the simply APU which nosotros know some specifications about. So the lineup includes the following models:

• AMD FX-8800P
• AMD PRO FX-8800B
• AMD A10-8700P
• AMD A8-8600P
• AMD A6-8500P
• AMD PRO A10-8700B
• AMD PRO A8-8600B
• AMD PRO A6-8500B
• AMD RX-418GD
• AMD RX-216GD

As detailed yesterday, the concluding flagship APU that was part of AMD'south Kaveri family was codenamed FX-7600P and the FX-8800P seems to be its successor from the Carrizo APU family. The 3DMark benchmark is vague on specs and details but it does listing the FX-8800P as a 12 Compute Cores enabled function which confirms that the Carrizo APU on mobility volition feature a maximum of 4 x86 Excavator cores and eight GCN Compute units forming into the 12 Compute Cores which AMD has been branding since the launch of Kaveri (because the can be used equally GPGPU). The testing was performed on the AMD Gardenia platform which is an internal codename for the test board that is used to run Carrizo samples. Rest of the specifications include the Radeon R7 graphics branding for the 512 SPs iGPU and a preliminary clock speed of 1.7 GHz base and two.i GHz boost. The chip scores around 2645 points in 3DMark xi operation mode which can be compared to the 2150 (average performance) score of the Kaveri based FX-7600P APU.

And so what else is in the lineup? AMD has two FX-Series APUs which are the elevation models. These include the FX-8800P and PRO FX-8800B for professional use. On the A-Series forepart, nosotros have 6 new chips, the AMD A10-8700P, AMD A8-8600P, AMD A6-8500P, PRO A10-8700B, PRO A8-8600B and PRO A6-8500B. Surprisingly, we are likewise looking at some R-Series APUs based on the Excavator core architecture which might be part of the "Merlin Falcon" family. The ii APUs codenamed RX-418GD and RX-216GD might feature the x86 Excavator core compages equally anticipated. For full details on Carrizo, you can visit the briefly detailed commodity here.

AMD R-Series "Merlin Falcon" SOC

The Merlin Falcon SOC will be based off AMD's adjacent generation Excavator core architecture and will characteristic upwards to 4 x86 Excavator cores with 4 MB shared L2 cache. This series will target the high performance SOC segment and can be idea of as the embedded version of AMD'southward upcoming "Carrizo" APU. Merlin Falcon SOC volition feature second generation HSA support (HSA 1.0) along with Dual aqueduct 64-chip DDR3 aqueduct (ECC). The college functioning SOC will characteristic the PCH on the same die that will allow PCI-due east Gen three and Gen 2 forth with SATA, USB 3.0/ 2.0, SPI, LPC support. The next generation graphics chip will allow for DirectX eleven.1 graphics and a UVD 6 decoder. Some of the key features of Merlin Falcon SOC are highlighted below:

• AMD Radeon HD 10000 Graphics architecture.
• four Excavator CPU cores with 4mb of shared L2 cache.
• second generation HSA.
• ARM security processor. Similar to the ane featured in AMD'due south latest Beema/Mullins APUs.
• Dual channel DDR3 memory controller.
• UVD (Universal Video Decode) half-dozen and VCE (Video Compression Engine) 3.

AMD FX-8800P 3DMark 11 Score:

AMD Carrizo APU Comparing Chart:

	AMD Trinity APU	AMD Richland APU	AMD Kaveri APU	AMD Carrizo-Fifty	AMD Carrizo APU
Cadre	x86 Piledriver	x86 Piledriver	x86 Steamroller	x86 PUMA+	x86 Excavator
Cores	2-4	ii-4	2-4	2-4	2-4
GPU	HD 7000 VLIW4	Hard disk 8000 VLIW4	2d GCN Ocean Islands	2nd GCN Body of water Islands	third GCN Volcanic Islands
GCN Cores	384 SPs	384 SPs	512 SPs	128 SPs?	512 SPs
Chipset	A85X/A75/FCH	A88X/A78/FCH	A88X/A78/Bolton	SOC	SOC
Socket	FM2/FM2+/BGA	FM2/FM2+/BGA	FM2+/BGA	BGA	BGA
Memory	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3
TDP	17/25/35W	17/25/35W	17/19/35W	10/25W	xv-35W
HSA Support	No	No	Yes	No	Full HSA one.0

Source: https://wccftech.com/amd-carrizo-based-mobility-apu-lineup-revealed-fx8800p-leads-pack-stoney-ridge-family/

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