Three new chips with slightly improved operating clocks

Sep 7, 2011 06:41 GMT  ·  By

Launched in June of this year, AMD's notebook APU family will soon receive three new members that improve upon the specs of the first generation of these accelerated processing units by offering faster operating speeds.

The three new chips were uncovered by the CPU-World website in an HP maintenance and service guide for the Pavilion dv7 line of laptops and are known as the A4-3320M, A6-3420M and A8-3520M.

According to the document, all the three accelerated processing units have a TDP of 35W as well as improved base and Turbo frequencies.

Making our way from top to bottom, the first chip that we encounter is the A8-3520M, which offers four processing cores backed by 4MB of Level 2 cache, while its base and Turbo clock speeds are set at 1.6GHz and 2.4GHz, respectively.

These operating speeds make it 100MHz faster than the A8-3500M it is meant to replace.

Moving our way down, we find the A6-3420M, which features almost the same specs as its predecessor, but comes with a 100MHz improved Turbo frequency.

The base clock speed hasn't received any improvement, making us wonder if HP's document is actually correct about the specifications of this APU.

Finally, the third A-Series chips to be spotted goes by the name of A4-3320M and is a dual-core processor with just 2MB of Level 2 cache memory.

Compared to the A4-3300 it's meant to replace, AMD's new chip comes clocked 100MHz higher, raising the base frequency to 2GHz, while the maximum Turbo speed that can be achieved is set at 2.6GHz.

No information regarding the integrated graphics cores used by these chips are available at this time, but we suspect these to remain unchanged from their predecessors. The release date of the APUs is also unknown, but it shouldn't take too long for them to appear in the retail channel.