THREE NEW ACCELERATED PROCESSING UNITS HIT THE MARKET FOR POWER-CONSCIOUS BUILDERS
AMD is sounding very bullish – as well it should – about its new A-series accelerated processing units. Packed with ‘Kaveri’ Radeon R7 graphics, the new APUs “deliver superior compute and heartpounding gaming performance”.
Other features in the A-series FM2+ form factor include up to 12 cores total (4 CPU and 8 GPU – ZOMG!), and Heterogeneous System Architecture to help deliver the right tasks to the appropriate processing element. Also onboard is Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture with DirectX 11.2 support, the much awaited/debated Mantle API, and AMD TrueAudio and support for UltraHD resolutions – so you can watch the handful of limited and rather poor 4K content on the market. Here’s the full specs of the three new APUs.
The A10-7850K and A10-7700K are available now and cost an impressive $219 and $199 respectively, while the lowerspecced A8-7600 is coming this quarter with no pricing details. All APUs will also be bundled with Battlefield 4.
