14 DAY TRIAL // AMD's Kaveri line of accelerated processing units is almost upon us, but that doesn't mean that Richland is disappearing. The two will actually coexist for a time, as a certain shop has just shown.
Anyone dropping by the ShopBLT website may lay their eyes on certain new accelerated processing units from the A-Series.
It is those chips that we are going to take a closer look at. Normally, they wouldn't even be available for perusal, but ShopBLT has them up for pre-order, so we won't miss the chance to examine them.
Besides, AMD intends for them to start shipping in January anyway, which is just a month or so from now, so pre-orders are bound to start on other retailers by then.
There are two dual-core and two quad-core units listed there. The former pair is part of the Richland generation, the latter of the Kaveri (next generation). Thus, Piledriver and Steamroller architecture, respectively.
The A4-6320 is a dual-core unit with HD 8000 graphics, 1 MB cache memory, 3.9 GHz Turbo clock (no clue what the base clock is), and a price of $57.30 / €57.30.
The other dual-core, A6-6420K, is also a 1 MB chip with HD 8000 graphics, but with a TDP of 65W and clocks of 4 GHz and 4.2 GHz, base/boost. The price is of $75.85 / €75.85.
The A10-7700K, based on Kaveri, is a quad-core with 4 MB cache, R7 series graphics (720 MHz clock), 3.5 GHz / 3.8 GHz CPU frequency, and TDP of 95W. The price is of $167 / €167.
Finally, the A10-7850 is similar to the one above but with 3.7 GHz / 4 GHz clock and a price of $189.24 / €189.24. Also, the GPU has 512 Radeon stream processors instead of 384 cores. All the new APUs will work on socket FM2+ motherboards.