according to GigaByte's support pages, two AMD Carrizo APUs incoming for FM2+ platform

[zMeul]

source: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5291#bios

& http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support.aspx

 

the APUs in question are Athlon X4 845 and 835

Carrizo APUs already "serve" the mobile platform and it was originally expected to get a desktop launch for the AM4 platform under the Bristol Ridge family

 

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update Jan 12:

according to CPU World , the part numbers of the said CPUs are AD835XACI43KA and AD845XACI43KA, found in AMD's own product listing

According to our sources the X4 835 will run at 3.1 GHz, and the X4 845 will run at 3.5 GHz. The processors are likely to support Turbo Core feature

[PlayStation 2]

This is gonna be interesting. Makes me wonder why they didn't push Jaguar farther since it obviously had and has potential.

[Oberon.Smite]

This is gonna be interesting. Makes me wonder why they didn't push Jaguar farther since it obviously had and has potential.

Well TBH Jaguar is kind of an old architecture intended for lighter loads. 

[Dabombinable]

28nm+CMT <_<

[That Norwegian Guy]

Whoooooooooooooo what a time to be aliveeee! 

[HalGameGuru]

Whoooooooooooooo what a time to be aliveeee! 

 

 

I think this is interesting, but I also find it a bit confusing... and I wonder if and when any further Carrizo developments may come along. Might they keep FM2+ going and overlap a bit with Zen? There is not a lot left for them to shunt to FM2 and I doubt Zen will start out with a ton of budget SKU's could FM2 keep AMD going with overlapping platforms for low end and low cost builds?

[Guest Kloaked]

Makes me wonder who's actually buying these things for AMD to make a profit. I'd wager not the American market.

[Prysin]

maybe we will finally see if Carrizo can deliver the promised 30% single core increase over Steamroller.

my 7870k can adjust its TDP to 65W, so i can just disable iGPU and force it to run CPU at 65W TDP...

gonna be fun to test it clock vs clock against the benchmarks that will come out. Or maybe ill just buy one for shits and giggles.

[Memories4K]

maybe we will finally see if Carrizo can deliver the promised 30% single core increase over Steamroller.

my 7870k can adjust its TDP to 65W, so i can just disable iGPU and force it to run CPU at 65W TDP...

gonna be fun to test it clock vs clock against the benchmarks that will come out. Or maybe ill just buy one for shits and giggles.

Zen, not Carrizo.

Don't all of you get your hopes up.

[Prysin]

Zen, not Carrizo.

Don't all of you get your hopes up.

did you read the OP?

also, Carrizo is valuable as a pointer, because so far we got zero benches outside of shitty laptop ones.

AMD promised that Excavator would be 20-30% faster then Steamroller in single core. And ZEN to be 40% faster then Excavator.

In all honesty, if Excavator is just 5% faster in single core, ZEN will be on par with haswell. if the 40% is true. if excavator really is 20-30% faster in single core, then ZEN. if the 40% is true, will match skylake in performance...

[Tomsen]

did you read the OP?

also, Carrizo is valuable as a pointer, because so far we got zero benches outside of shitty laptop ones.

AMD promised that Excavator would be 20-30% faster then Steamroller in single core. And ZEN to be 40% faster then Excavator.

In all honesty, if Excavator is just 5% faster in single core, ZEN will be on par with haswell. if the 40% is true. if excavator really is 20-30% faster in single core, then ZEN. if the 40% is true, will match skylake in performance...

Now, I don't remember exactly what marketing AMD did, but most certainly they weren't talking about raw performance.

Raw CPU performance might end up kinda where steamroller is, +/-. The performance increase promise was within a powerlimit (15w IIRC).

[cesrai]

I thought AMD said it was gonna only be mobile not desktop but I guess they changed their minds.

[zMeul]

according to CPU World , the part numbers of the said CPUs are AD835XACI43KA and AD845XACI43KA, found in AMD's own product listing

According to our sources the X4 835 will run at 3.1 GHz, and the X4 845 will run at 3.5 GHz. The processors are likely to support Turbo Core feature

[Nena Trinity]

Probably not top models il wait for 865K or 875K