AMD Richland Desktop APU Lineup Details
AMD’s APU platform has matured over the years, no matter intuitive it was on paper the chips failed to beat their competition. AMD’s current APU department is based on the Trinity platform, not for long though. AMD will transition to the Richland lineup come Q2 2013. AMD’s Richland APU lineup consists of quad-core and dual-core offerings with a TDP of 100W and 65W respectively.
AMD’s Richland APU will be based off a 32nm manufacturing process featuring enhanced version of the x86 Piledriver architecture. The Richland APU’s would be compatible with FM2 socket motherboards fused with the A85X ‘Bolton D3′ chipset reports gamingio.com
The Richland APU’s feature compatibility with DDR3 DIMMs rated at 1866 MHz + O.C, the chipset is set to feature 4 USB 3.0 ports, 14 USB 2.0 ports and eight SATA 6GB/s devices. The leak also names the entire Richland APU lineup. The list consists of the following:
- A10-6800K Radeon HD 8670D/ Quad Core 100W
- A8-6600K Radeon HD 8570D/ Quad Core 100W
- A10-6700 Radeon HD 8670D/ Quad Core 65W
- A8-6500 Radeon HD 8570D/ Quad Core 65W
- A6-6400K Radeon HD 8470D/ Dual Core 65W
- A4-6300 Radeon HD 8370D/ Dual Core 65W