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AMD Launches 7th Gen APUs Bristol Ridge
After a pre-release mini launch earlier in the year, we are finally getting AMD’s 7th generation APUs. Codenamed Bristol Ridge, the new chip lineup bridges the gap between current offerings and the upcoming Zen CPUs and APUs. The big reveal is a new line of A9 APUs which supplements the…
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AMD Launches A10 7890K and Athlon X4 880K
AMD has been getting ever more cyclical with their releases after their latest organizational shuffle. Last month, we saw the launch of the A10 7860K & Athlon X4 845 APU and CPU and this month we’re 2 more chips. Today, we are getting the A10 7890K and Athlon X4 880K, both of…
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AMD Releases VR-Ready CPU List
With the arrival of the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and other VR headsets later this year, the talk has turned to the hardware necessary to drive these displays. Unlike regular gaming, VR gaming will require much higher framerates, meaning higher performing hardware. While Oculus has released their own system hardware checker,…
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AMD Launches A10 7860K & Athlon X4 845
Despite being stuck on the 28nm node for the past while, AMD has been working to bring more CPUs to consumers with better binning and performance as the process and technology matures. Case in point is the A10-7860K Godavari and Athlon X8 845 Carrizo chips launching today. Both chips are focused on…
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New AMD Zen Core Details Leaked
New information for AMD’s upcoming CPU architecture has been leaked ahead of the company’s annual Financial Analyst Day. The leak image appears to be an official slide details the block diagram for the next generation architecture. If this slide is legitimate, this will offer the first glimpse into the innards…
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AMD Preparing Round of APU Price Cuts
In the western market the “Back-To-School” shopping season is nearly upon us. It is that time of year where parents and students alike dump copious amounts of money into buying new desktop and laptop computers so what better time for AMD to drop some of their APU prices than now.…
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AMD Hints At Upcoming CPU/APU Release With “Core Is Back” Teaser Video
Quite a few days ago AMD posted up a teaser video bearing the slogan “Core is Back”. In the past AMD have used such a slogan before the launch of a new CPU or APU product. Of course we’ve already seen AMD re-launch its FX-9590 as a retail CPU with…
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Locked Kaveri A10-7800 Launched, Features 512 GCN Cores and 65W TDP
AMD has reportedly launched its locked Kaveri APU, the A10-7800, having it show similar specs as the A10-7850K. The only noticeable difference between the latter is that the A10-7800 has its cores locked, having its main advantage seen in the 65W TDP, 30W less than the A10-7850K and A10-7700K. The…
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New AMD FX-Series Processor Is Coming: Ships With A Liquid Cooling System
AMD’s Roy Taylor, the Vice President of Global Channel Sales, has revealed an upcoming AMD FX-Series processor on Twitter. He revealed a picture of a new product which is an FX-Series Processor with an integrated liquid cooling system. The packaging clearly indicates we will see a closed loop water cooler…
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AMD Kaveri A10-7850K Overclocking Analysis
Introduction AMD’s Kaveri K Series APUs have a wealth of untapped performance potential: out of the box they come with a modest 720MHz GPU core clock speed, yet anyone who has toyed with AMD APUs in the past knows there’s going to be a lot of overclocking headroom. Before we…
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Memory Scaling On The AMD Kaveri A10-7850K APU
Introduction – Memory Scaling on Kaveri AMD’s Kaveri APUs are dependent on system memory. The easiest way to explain this dependency is by thinking of the GPU on the Kaveri APU as a graphics card, but with one significant difference – on its own it has no video memory. The…
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AMD Kaveri Review: A10-7850K, A10-7700K and A8-7600
Introduction If you follow our website and the technology industry more broadly then you may have heard a lot about Kaveri since it was officially launched on January 14th 2014. Kaveri is the codename for AMD’s fourth generation of desktop APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) after Llano, Trinity and Richland. In…
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AMD Kaveri To Launch On January 14th As A10-7850K
AMD has announced at the developer conference APU13 that it will launch the new AMD Kaveri, also known as A10-7850K, next year on the 14th of January. The statement made by AMD at the conference also points to the CES 2014 where AMD will reveal more details about the Kaveri…
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AMD Carizo APU Will Replace Kaveri In 2015
According to a report by the Digitimes AMD’s Kaveri APU (Richland’s successor) is due to be replaced by Carizo in 2015. AMD’s Kaveri is due between Q4 of 2012 to Q2 of 2013 and Carizo is due 2015. “In the first half of 2014, AMD plans to release two more…
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AMD Could Delay Kaveri APUs to Q1 2014
According to a report by Digitimes AMD may delay the next series of APUs, codename Kaveri, until 2014 instead of releasing them in Q4 of this year. Apparently manufacturing is starting later than expected and so the Kaveri APUs will need some extra time to be developed. AMD’s Kaveri APUs…
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