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Advanced Micro Devices is working on two new A8 and A10 accelerated processing units for desktop systems. The new chips will be based on the code-named “Kaveri” design and will not bring tangible performance improvements compared to existing APUs. Nonetheless, the new processors will help AMD to maintain average selling prices of its highly-integrated offerings for desktops.
The new quad-core AMD A8-7690K and AMD A10-7890K will feature slightly higher clock-rates than existing A8 and A10 accelerated processing units. For example, the A10-7890K accelerated processing unit will have default frequency of 4.10GHz, which is 200MHz higher compared to existing flagship APU. The A8-7690K will be around 100MHz faster than its predecessor, reports CPU-World. Unfortunately, it is unknown whether the new chips will also sport higher GPU frequency.
From micro-architecture point of view, the new APUs from AMD are similar to their predecessors: they feature four “Steamroller” cores, DirectX 12-class integrated graphics processor featuring GCN 1.1 architecture, second-generation video coding engine (VCE) and fourth-generation unified video decoder (VCE) units that ensure high quality video playback and support all modern encoding formats (MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, VC-1, etc.) except H.265/HEVC, VC-9 and some other.
AMD’s latest accelerated processing units that belong to the “Kaveri Refresh” family feature a reworked power supply circuitry, which gives cleaner and higher volume power delivery to the die. This lets AMD to increase “official” frequencies of its highly-integrated desktop chips and which also provides overclockers a significantly better headroom for further tweaking. In addition, AMD is able to bolster clock-rates of its chips thanks to the fact that GlobalFoundries’ 28nm super high performance (SHP) process technology has got significantly better than it was early in its lifecycle.
In addition to high-performance AMD A8-7690K and AMD A10-7890K, Advanced Micro Devices is also working on AMD A6-7470K as well as Athlon X4 850 and Athlon X4 870K.
The new microprocessors are expected to hit the market in the coming weeks and months.
AMD did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: While it is nice to see that AMD is gradually increasing performance of its APUs, the chips are still behind their competitors from Intel Corp. when it comes to general-purpose computing performance. Moreover, relatively high thermal design power of 95W does not allow to build ultra-small systems based on the new AMD A8 and A10 “Kaveri” accelerated processing units.
nope, not interested, Unless it is Zen….
Is it just me or the 7700K has become irrelevant? I mean, than new 7690K is just faster… it should have been something like A10-7750K..
not just the 7700k, AMD in general has become irrelevant. Refreshes and rehashes of the same old for years.
Looking at that table, it was already irrelevant – the A8-7670K was also faster.
Unless amd improved the memory controller these things arent that useful for igpu performance.
They should make it 4 ghz base, 4,4 ghz turbo with 900 mhz gpu.
That would give it the 1050 Gflops which they said will be availible 1H2013 (they said this in 2012)
4.1GHz base is useless unless the OC headroom has increased. 4.1 should be obtainable on any current desktop Kaveri.
I was lucky to have a 860K that ran 4.7GHz stable but majority had problems with 4.5GHz.
Is it just me or are they trying to confuse naming schemes with Intel?
i5-4690k | A8-7690K
i7-4790k| A10-7890K
For this reason alone, I sort of doubt the naming scheme is accurate (not to mention the other post about lower model numbers having faster performance). I guess we’ll see.
Why can’t they just give us Carizzo on FM2+ already? To hear AMD tell it, Kaveri is totally weak versus Carizzo; who would buy Kaveri after seeing AMD’s PR on how awesome carizzo is?
I also wonder why we can’t have a real “swan song” chip for Bulldozer, one that uses Excavator, on AM3+? AMD has been leaving us desktop users in the lurch for 3 years now, probably 4 by the time Zen rolls out.
Another reason that Kaveri should be put out to pasture and Carrizo rolled out to FM2+.
IIRC, Kaveri-speaking of memory-has quad-channel support that, due to what must have been an FM2+ design oversight, has gone unrealized 🙁
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Shame that carrizo cant be put on desktop because of scaling issues beyond something like 40watts.
And damn, that would have made the APU’s somewhat better.
One can see this from many points! A10-7890 is in no way a gamechanger, but then again, if AMD had nothing coming out before ZEN in Q3 or Q4 2016, then they are really out on thin ice for a year ahead. 8800p for laptops is a good midclass APU, but laptop makers are not focusing on that in any noticeable way. I fear we will end up with low quality laptops, and AMD won´t sell many laptop processors. FX 8350 & 8370 for desktops are still ok in MID performance, but I think the price for a new PC is too high 8370 vs 4790 is about 150€ more affordable, but 8370 looses in every comparison by a distance. Add 150€+ to the 4790, and you sit with a top skylake + ddr4 ram. The only thing AMD is up to fight with is Fury X, and the new coming NANO seems to be very interesting if the price is ok, only 175W but much graphics power.
The thing is that the 7690K and 7670k should’ve been called 86x0K. It is like saying that the 5800K has become irrelevant after the 6600K lauch.