14 DAY TRIAL // After making their appearance on the websites of several Stateside retailers, AMD's upcoming desktop Llano accelerated processing units also started to be listed in European e-tail, where the flagship A8-3850 APU carries a 135€ price tag.
Pricing was updated earlier today, but the chip still isn't available in stock and almost certainly won't begin shipping until AMD makes it official at the end of this month.
The AMD A8-3850 APU is the fastest desktop Llano APU to be introduced and it packs four processing cores, which operate at 2.9GHz, 4MB of Level 2 cache, a dual-channel DDR3-1866 memory controller and a Radeon HD 6550D graphics unit.
This includes no less than 400 shader units clocked at 600MHz and can work together with select discrete graphics cards in an Hybrid CrossFireX mode.
Apart from the A8-3850 APU, European retailers have also added the A6-3650 to their offer, and its pricing is set at 117€.
Just like its more powerful sibling, this APU also includes four processing cores and 4MB of Level 2 cache, but its operating frequency was lowered to 2.6GHz.
In addition, the integrated graphics core is also a bit slower since it packs only 320 stream processor that operate at 443MHz.
Outside of the on-die graphics core, Llano chips also feature an integrated dual-channel DDR3-1866MHz memory controller and a 16 lane PCI Express Gen 2.0 controller.
The accelerated processing units are compatible with socket FM1 motherboards. These can be powered by the A55 or A75 chipset, and both offer similar features, except for USB 3.0 support which is only found in the more advanced A75 FCH.
As noted earlier, AMD is expected to launch the desktop version of the Llano APUs at the end of this month, on June 30. (via HardwareLuxx)