A little better performance, much better energy savings. AMD’s presentation slides for its Carrizo APU to be shown as the upcoming ISSCC 2015 event surgfaced on the web. The leaked slides tell us everything about the new APU. The new design features a total 3.1 billion transistors.

This means that the new Excavator based Carrizo is significantly smaller than the Kaveri APUs and comes with a more general purpose GPU-oriented stack that enabled greater density. This helps reduce the power consumption as well and AMD claims that the new Excavator cores use 40% less power. What also helps with efficiency are the AVFS modules that AMD has included in order to optimize performance per Watt on the new APU.

As far as performance improvements go, the leaked slide points to 3.5 times the transcode performance of Kaveri with H.265 support and a general double digit increase in performance overall. The integrated Radeon graphics with the Carizzo APU is expected to include support for Mantle as well as DirectX12.

The Carrizo APU is expected to be available to notebook manufacturers by the second half of this year and we should see more details being revealed at the AMD ISSCC presentation on 23rd. Story via VR-Zone - screenshots VideoCardz.