[WCCFTech] possible 12-core APU

[carolkarine]

http://wccftech.com/amd-12-core-aseries-apu-inbound/

 

they're getting this information from the side of a truck, and it just looks photoshopped.

 

I also don't see AMD doing this. their high-core count processors remain in the FX series, and I don't see how they could fit those cores on a die with a gpu of any size.

[Unhelpful]

It's WCCFTECH. Take anything/everything they say with a continent-sized grain of salt.

[dragoon20005]

lolz

 

i say it fake

[Admiaczking]

you can tell this is photoshopped

[Misanthrope]

I've seen better photoshops of Linus' face here in the forums.

[wpirobotbuilder]

Dude, they even say in the article that it's speculation. Of course we should take it with a grain of salt; not because it's WCCFTech, but because it's speculation.

[flibberdipper]

WCCFTech is fucking electronic cancer. And even then, all of the APU's for the foreseeable future seem to be quad cores.

[Kamina]

https://twitter.com/SasaMarinkovic/status/491925280475205632

 

12 Compute cores, I bet.

[Akolyte]

So fake...  

 

Whoever did that photoshop didn't do a good enough job to fool me or anyone else... 

[Enderman]

Its WFCCT, so its fake.

Also if its anything like the 'half cores' AMD is currently using it will probably continue to be a piece of shit.

[CtW]

Server APU??? If not, then this is definitely fake. Why the hell would they jump from 4 to 12 cores? Maybe they want something that can rival the theoretical performance of a top tier intel part in terms of stacked core performance but as we know from the 8350, that wont change the face that, core for core, APUs are on par with i3s.

[mr moose]

can we stop posting wccf shit here?  90% of their articles are clickbait, and I don't want to support that.

[pixeldensity]

Most likely a good amount of the cores are gpu cores

[Admire]

AMD "cores"

[Notional]

You do understand, by linking this horrible piece of linkbait, that they actually make money off of youm and will continue to make shit up, because it makes them money, right?

[Opcode]

Its WFCCT, so its fake.

Also if its anything like the 'half cores' AMD is currently using it will probably continue to be a piece of shit.

It's on an official AMD employee's twitter so it has to be real (clearly the design on the truck itself isn't real). The number 12 more than likely represents 4 CPU and 8 GPU compute units. Tho with a new video at this point in time (paste Kaveri release), I wonder what it is for exactly. The first "be invincible" video debuted on Jun 3, two days later desktop Richland was released. Maybe a Kaveri refresh is inbound (seems about the right time to do so).

[Levent]

inb4 they release a screenshot of 12 cores running at 5ghz with 0.9v

[jmaster299]

First it's not an actual photo of a truck, and they clearly point that out. It's an advertisement posted directly by AMD's PR department, so there's nothing "fake" about it. WCCFTech does nothing more than speculate as to what the "12" actually means, and they are very upfront about it being speculation. They are also not the original source. That original source even provides a link to AMD's official Youtube page that has a video for the exact same advertising campaign.

It might be a better idea to actually take a look and read an article before dismissing out of hand.

[IPCharger]

Reminds me of this

[ajoy39]

The A10 kaveri APUS are 12 cores....12 compute cores. 4 CPU cores, 8 GPU cores. 

[BobbyG2]

Maybe 6cpu 6gpu cores?

[carolkarine]

The A10 kaveri APUS are 12 cores....12 compute cores. 4 CPU cores, 8 GPU cores. 

which is a load of marketing bullshit. calling them the same thing is simply wrong.

[Misanthrope]

which is a load of marketing bullshit. calling them the same thing is simply wrong.

 

Sort of reminds me of a local vendor saying he's selling a computer with a 32Ghz processor! He was just selling an 8350 system but decided to just add up each core to the Ghz count and use it to sell his average system for like 2 grand  :lol:

[Opcode]

which is a load of marketing bullshit. calling them the same thing is simply wrong.

The term "core" is not derived directly from microprocessors. My peach has a single core and my apple has multiple cores, or am I just wrong for saying so? You do understand GPU's and CPU's are nearly the same thing. Very much so that the GPU cores are manufactured on the same die as the CPU cores while using the same fabrication process. Anyone with a half brain would understand the concept that AMD is implying here. In the world of microprocessors a single compute unit is considered as a "core". The GCN architecture already uses the same compute unit terminology. So at the end of the day you really could say there are 12 "cores" or essentially 12 compute units inside an APU. It's foolish to think that a "core" automatically consists of a microprocessor that solely runs x86 instructions. Sure they all don't execute the same exact instructions nor were they originally built with the same intention in mind. Nobody has refereed to them as "cores" until now, and AMD has good reason to. Sure it might confuse people into thinking that there are 12 CPU cores inside. Tho them people are usually to dumb to know what a core is even if you explain it to them. In this case, WCCFTech.

[jmaster299]

The term "core" is not derived directly from microprocessors. My peach has a single core and my apple has multiple cores, or am I just wrong for saying so? You do understand GPU's and CPU's are nearly the same thing. Very much so that the GPU cores are manufactured on the same die as the CPU cores while using the same fabrication process. Anyone with a half brain would understand the concept that AMD is implying here. In the world of microprocessors a single compute unit is considered as a "core". The GCN architecture already uses the same compute unit terminology. So at the end of the day you really could say there are 12 "cores" or essentially 12 compute units inside an APU. It's foolish to think that a "core" automatically consists of a microprocessor that solely runs x86 instructions. Sure they all don't execute the same exact instructions nor were they originally built with the same intention in mind. Nobody has refereed to them as "cores" until now, and AMD has good reason to. Sure it might confuse people into thinking that there are 12 CPU cores inside. Tho them people are usually to dumb to know what a core is even if you explain it to them. In this case, WCCFTech.

I actually get what you are saying, it's a little bit more detailed than how was considering it, but I agree with the point you are trying to get across. I look at it like this, these APUs are being designed to take a CPU and GPU and put them together on a single chip in a way the increases their performance across the board. Their main use, in things like mobile devices, will allow those devices to be better able to run their various apps, UI elements and games. Things that can utilize both the CPU and GPU cores in a unified way to boost their performance.

The entire fact that these are APUs means that the CPU definition of a "core" does not and should not apply. Windows doesn't using the processing power of my GPU to run it's UI elements, but on a mobile device using an APU, it will be able to use either the CPU cores, the GPU cores, or both, in what ever way will more efficiently handle the load that is being asked of them.