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.

Wonder how this new stepping will overclock. The 7850 overclocks pretty decently.

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.

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.

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?

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.)

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.