AMD has been really silent about these product, yet the AMD A10-7870K Black Edition Godavari Flagship APU has now surfaced. Retailers are listing this APU which will cost around a 150 USD. Word on the street is that they might launch May 28th.
You will notice that this SKU is using the 7800 series naming, not 800 as earlier expected. Godvari architecture is in fact an update to what you guys have known and learned as Excavator architecture CPU cores combined with Graphics CoreNext 1.2 based stream processors seated into the integrated GPU inside the APU. The APU will make a bump upwards from PCI-Express 2.0 towards 3.0 and supports higher speed DDR3 controllers allowing 2133 MHz as default (but that one is speculative). There will be up to four x86 cores to be more specific, along with up to 512 stream processors per integrated graphics processing unit.
Website WccFtech was the first to report about this, here's their take on this:
There are also two SKUs coming which will form the flagship Godavari (for consumer side) – namely the A10-7870K and the A10-7670K. These can be called the ‘real’ Godavari since they will offer the newer JC stepping – a better revision of architecture for higher efficiency and clocks. Specs wise, they will be the same as Kaveri. Finally, you have the OEM Godavari offering which will be branded under the 8000 series nomenclature.
Now the stepping details are a tiny bit hazy about the 8000 series but here’s what we know for sure. It will have atleast one SKU with the newer stepping (the A10-8850B Godavari Flagship APU) while the rest will probably be ‘old’ Kaveri rebrands. The use of 8000 nomenclature here is unfortunate because the Carrizo-L lineup (which is architecturally superior to Kaveri and Godavari in every way) was branded as 7000 series mobility APUs – something that makes very little sense from a nomenclature standpoint. Anyways, with that out of the way here are some exclusive pictures of the ‘real’ Godavari flagship and the OEM only offering.
The part numbers of the APUs are AD787KXDI44JC and AD885BXBI44JC respectively. I have taken the liberty to scrub any identifying information to protect the identity of our source. The JC suffix at the end signifies the new stepping while as the ‘B’ following the ‘885’ signifies the OEM only nature of the SKU. Both APUs will support the FM2+ socket and are thought to have 95W TDP. Both APUs are the literal flagship Godavari and motherboard vendors have already listed support of these SKUs.
AMD Godavari Flagship Chips:
| Model | AMD A10-7870K ‘Godavari’ | AMD A10-8850K ‘Godavari’ OEM | AMD A10-7850K ‘Kaveri’ | AMD A10-6800K ‘Richland’ | AMD A10-5800K ‘Trinity’ |
| Cores | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 |
| Turbo Core 3.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Base Clock | 3.9 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 4.1 GHz | 3.8 GHz |
| Turbo Clock | 4. GHz | 4.1 GHz | 4.0 GHz | 4.4 GHz | 4.2 GHz |
| L2 Cache | 4 MB L2 | 4 MB L2 | 4 MB L2 | 4 MB L2 | 4 MB L2 |
| Unlocked Design | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graphics Core | GCN Radeon R7 Series | GCN Radeon R7 Series | GCN Radeon R7 Series | HD 8670D | HD 7660D |
| GPU Cores | 512 Cores | 512 Cores | 512 Cores | 384 Cores | 384 Cores |
| GPU Clock | 856 MHz | 856 MHz | 720 MHz | 844 MHz | 800 MHz |
| TDP | 95W | 95W | 95W | 100W | 100W |
| Launch Date | 28th May 2015 (Expected) | 28th May 2015 (Expected) | 14th January 2014 | 4th June 2013 | 2nd October 2012 |
AMD Godavari OEM Only APU Lineup:
| Godavari | CPU Cores | CPU Clock Base/Boost | L2 Cache | GPU / Cores | GPU Clock |
TDP | |
| AMD A10-8850K | 4 | 3.7/4.1 GHz | 4 MB | R7 / 512 | 856 MHz | 95W | |
| AMD A10-Pro 8850B | 4 | 3.7/4.1 GHz | 4 MB | R7 / 512 | 800 MHz | 95W | |
| AMD A8-8650 | 4 | 3.2/3.8 GHz | 4 MB | R7 / 384 | 760 MHz | 65W | |
| AMD A8-8650K | 4 | 3.2/3.5 GHz | 4 MB | R7 / 384 | 760 MHz | 95W | |
| AMD A10-8750 | 4 | 3.0/3.5 GHz | 4 MB | R7 / 512 | TBD | 65W | |
| AMD A6-8550K | 2 | 3.1/3.5 GHz | 2 MB | R5 / 256 | TBD | 65W | |
| AMD A10 PRO-8750B | 4 | 3.0/3.5 GHz | 4 MB | R7 / 512 | TBD | 65W | |
| AMD A8 PRO-8650B | 4 | 2.9/3.2 GHz | 4 MB | R7 / 384 | 760 MHz | 65W | |
| AMD A6 PRO-8550B | 2 | 3.1/3.5 GHz | 2 MB | R5 / 256 | TBD | 65W | |
| AMD A4 PRO-8350B | 2 | 3.0/3.5 GHz | 2 MB | R5 / 256 | 757 MHz | 65W | |
| AMD Athlon X4 870K | 4 | 3.5/3.7 GHz | 2 MB | N/A | N/A | 95W | |
| AMD Athlon X4 850 | 4 | 2.9/3.2 GHz | 2 MB | N/A | N/A | 65W | |
AMD A10-7870K Black Edition Godavari Flagship APU Spotted
