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AMD Launches GodAvari FreeSync compatible A10-7870K APU
AMD announces its FreeSync compatible A10-7870K APU, also known under project codename Godavari. The A10-7870K APU, a quad-core CPUs with eight activated Radeon cores totaling towards 512 shader processors. The APU memory controller these days supports up to DDR3-2133 and 2400 MHz with selected memory MHz memory speeds.
So with Godavari people had silent hopes that this would be a new APU architecture, nope. It was merely a project name that got blown our of proportions on the web, by the usual websites. The AMD A10-7870K Black Edition (Godavari) Flagship APU now is released. Retailers are listing this APU which will cost around a 140 USD and 129 USD for OEMs. You will have noticed that this SKU is using the 7800 series naming, not 8000 as earlier expected and rumored.
Godvari architecture is in fact an update to what you guys have known and learned as the Kaveri / Excavator architecture CPU cores combined with Graphics CoreNext 1.2 based stream processors seated into the integrated GPU inside the APU.It will support higher speed DDR3 controllers allowing 2133 MHz as default using up-to 2400 MHz with AMD affiliated memory. There will be up to four x86 cores to be more specific, along with up to 512 stream processors per integrated graphics processing unit. The sheer difference for the 7870K will be that is is tweaked to be faster, the APU with a newer stepping will have a 3.9 GHz baseclock and can turbo on its dynamic boost clock frequency towards 4.1 GHz. The integrated graphics is a notch faster as well, coming from 720 MHz it is now clocked at 866 MHz.
The latest iteration will be compatible with FreeSync monitors.
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#5082885 Posted on: 05/28/2015 05:11 PM
Wonder how this new stepping will overclock. The 7850 overclocks pretty decently.
Wonder how this new stepping will overclock. The 7850 overclocks pretty decently.
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#5083072 Posted on: 05/28/2015 09:15 PM
If even a thing like this gets GCN 1.2, there's no way the 300 series video cards wouldn't. I guess I can consider them after all. As old as they are, rebranded, they would still be newer than my current ancient card.
If even a thing like this gets GCN 1.2, there's no way the 300 series video cards wouldn't. I guess I can consider them after all. As old as they are, rebranded, they would still be newer than my current ancient card.
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#5083135 Posted on: 05/28/2015 10:48 PM
Has overclocking on these apu's been fixed since Richland? I had some weird throttling issues on the 5800k. Very fun platform to mess with tho.
Has overclocking on these apu's been fixed since Richland? I had some weird throttling issues on the 5800k. Very fun platform to mess with tho.
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#5083139 Posted on: 05/28/2015 10:51 PM
I would love to see benchmarks on this apu + difference in fps when RAM is overclocked or not.
Will you do a review on this one HH?
I would love to see benchmarks on this apu + difference in fps when RAM is overclocked or not.
Will you do a review on this one HH?
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#5083406 Posted on: 05/29/2015 05:25 AM
Most of a10-7850k had trouble keeping CPU cores at full speed in case you used GPU, but considering all those efficiency things AMD is pulling and increased GPU clocks here, it may be more stable.
But I do not think it will keep OC if you put load on GPU as all their slides show quite a lot of TDP being shared between CPU and GPU part.
It will be same with mobile carrizo. 35W very good CPU performance at that, very good GPU performance too. But once both used one will not be fully fed (or both since they have that balanced TDP slide).
I would prefer to have special 45W turbo where both CPU and GPU would perform at peak performance. (No OC, just no degradation.)
Has overclocking on these apu's been fixed since Richland? I had some weird throttling issues on the 5800k. Very fun platform to mess with tho.
Most of a10-7850k had trouble keeping CPU cores at full speed in case you used GPU, but considering all those efficiency things AMD is pulling and increased GPU clocks here, it may be more stable.
But I do not think it will keep OC if you put load on GPU as all their slides show quite a lot of TDP being shared between CPU and GPU part.
It will be same with mobile carrizo. 35W very good CPU performance at that, very good GPU performance too. But once both used one will not be fully fed (or both since they have that balanced TDP slide).
I would prefer to have special 45W turbo where both CPU and GPU would perform at peak performance. (No OC, just no degradation.)
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#5084244 Posted on: 05/29/2015 11:16 PM
That's too bad you would think they'd allow power limit adjustments on the k series desktop models just think 1 chip doing both cpu and graphics under water could be fun.
That's too bad you would think they'd allow power limit adjustments on the k series desktop models just think 1 chip doing both cpu and graphics under water could be fun.
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The CPU core frequency boost isn't much to get excited about however the 20% increase to the GPU core frequency sounds fairly significant especially when paired with the improved DDR3 bandwidth.
It will be interesting how this affects dual graphics benchmarks now that the frequency difference between the integrated and discreet graphics cores has been reduced.