14 DAY TRIAL // We know that most Trinity-based processors will be A-Series APUs (accelerated processing units), but AMD was said to be preparing some Athlon chips as well. Now we have a shade of a confirmation.
We say this is a “shade” of a confirmation because the original list of microprocessors supported by Gigabyte's GA-F2A75M-D3H motherboard has been taken down. Google cache is the only reason we can still view the information.
You will notice three Athlon II X4 central processing units with their integrated graphics disabled. They are called Athlon II X4 730, Athlon II X4 740 and Athlon II X4 750K.
The first of them works at a clock speed of 2.8 GHz, features a L2 cache memory of 4 MB and has a TDP of 65 Watts.
The second unit is identical as far as core number, cache and TDP go, but it is faster, with a core frequency of 3.2 GHz.
The Athlon II X4 750K is the best of the lot. Though it, too, is a quad-core with 4 MB cache, it runs at 3.4 GHz and is rated at 100 W.
All in all, the data supports, for the most part, the report made back in August (2012), even though it makes no mention of Sempron models.
It is possible that Advanced Micro Devices will not sell Trinity Athlons directly to consumers, as there aren't any box numbers to be found.
It is also unclear when shipments will start. While the Sunnyvale, California-based company might ship them when the A-Series come to market, it might decide to hold off for a while too.
We still think it strange that AMD is actually making Trinity products without the GPU, since better graphics is one of the main benefits of the architecture, but at least it serves as a strong assurance that the x86 side of the technology has been improved as well.