Posted on 06/07/2013 9:28:42 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
AMD’s Kaveri APU platform would be the chip maker’s fourth generation of accelerated processing units which would feature the latest 28nm Steamroller core architecture that would be the first major architectural uplift in recent years over the Bulldozer and its refined successor “Piledriver”. Both Bulldozer and Piledriver came with up to 8 core SKUs but due to lackluster performance against Intel’s offerings failed to gain a huge market.
With Steamroller, AMD plans to step in the 28nm process design coupled with greater parallelism and around 15-20% IPC improvement over currently available CPU architecture by AMD. The CPU side looks great on Kaveri APU and so does the GPU side which would incorporate the Graphics core next architecture or simply GCN. AMD GCN architecture is currently available on discrete graphics solutions and the recently launched Temash and Kabini APUs. With Kaveri, AMD’s top to bottom platform lineup would feature their GCN core architecture which would deliver faster and improved performance over the much older VLIW4 architecture that has currently been reused on the Richland APUs that were launched at the event.
A major feature to be implemented in the Kaveri APUs is the HUMA memory architecture which is part of HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) which would allow PCs to make use of a unified memory architecture which would allow cross sharing of system ram between the GPU and CPU. This would enhance the way PCs access and communicate with their memory.
(Excerpt) Read more at wccftech.com ...
That is the info in earlier threads I have posted.
First FM2+ board I am aware of is a board from ECS....
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