AMD has officially launched their new APUs for the mobile segment. AMD Richland is the successor to AMD's Trinity which was launched late in 2012. Richland isn't a huge update to Trinity but it does bring some interesting features, basically unlocking the full potential of the Trinity die and architecture. Richland is the stop product between Trinity and AMD's truly next generation APU, Kaveri which is set for Q4 2013 complete with Steamroller Cores and Graphics Core Next 2.0 based GPU, along with support for GDDR5 memory and integration of HSA elements.
AMD Richland APU
AMD's new Richland APU is based on the exact same die as AMD Trinity. What AMD did is integrate some handy tweaks that allowed them to clock their products higher (as high as 2.5 GHz base and 3.5 GHz Turbo for the flagship quad core part while maintaining a 35 W TDP, that is with a 533/720 MHz GPU on board). Clock speed boost naturally brings a performance boost, but AMD's prime focus with Richland is power consumption optimization.
The fastest AMD part has 384 Radeon Cores, albeit with much higher clock speeds. We are waiting to see benchmarks, but performance can be anywhere between 10-20% ahead of Trinity thanks to optimized drivers as well.
There is a chart shows you a comparison between power consumption in various scenarios between Richland and Trinity, and it certainly is in favor of Richland. You can find all of the officially released slides below:
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AMD has made an interesting new chip for mobile systems. Are you game?
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AMD Richland APU
AMD's new Richland APU is based on the exact same die as AMD Trinity. What AMD did is integrate some handy tweaks that allowed them to clock their products higher (as high as 2.5 GHz base and 3.5 GHz Turbo for the flagship quad core part while maintaining a 35 W TDP, that is with a 533/720 MHz GPU on board). Clock speed boost naturally brings a performance boost, but AMD's prime focus with Richland is power consumption optimization.
The fastest AMD part has 384 Radeon Cores, albeit with much higher clock speeds. We are waiting to see benchmarks, but performance can be anywhere between 10-20% ahead of Trinity thanks to optimized drivers as well.
There is a chart shows you a comparison between power consumption in various scenarios between Richland and Trinity, and it certainly is in favor of Richland. You can find all of the officially released slides below:
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AMD has made an interesting new chip for mobile systems. Are you game?
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