AMD's Carrizo APU With Excavator Cores Significantly Improves Efficiency

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AMD significantly boosts efficiency with its new "Carrizo-L" APUs, first presenting the mobile version at ISSCC 2015, offering either higher performance at normal power consumption or significantly decreased power consumption at normal performance.

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[TechyInAZ]

Nice! And if they offer the most powerful A10 desktop for only $150, that will defiantly be faster than a i3.

 

[shafe88]

Now if they could bring this to desktops.

 

[killerchickens]

I can't even focus enough to read the entire article.

 

[TechyInAZ]

I can't even focus enough to read the entire article.

Yeah a little complicated, but once you do some research on the basics of CPUs, then you'll get the hang of it.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Good for AMD, this seems like it'll be a success in laptops. Well-written article, very thorough. However IPC only increased 5% I was hoping for more.

 

[Alec Mowat]

Oh, AMD. Yawn... More slow CPU's? Ok.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

Nice! And if they offer the most powerful A10 desktop for only $150, that will defiantly be faster than a i3.

Apparently Carrizo is mobile BGA only. Desktop FM2+ is getting a refresh of Kaveri this year called Godavari.

 

[Rayson Viswas]

kind of glad since it seems like this is worse of for cpus over 25 w

 

[digitaldoc]

AMD often has good theoreticals, but I will wait to see some benchmarks to see how this thing can really perform.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Nice! And if they offer the most powerful A10 desktop for only $150, that will defiantly be faster than a i3.

Apparently Carrizo is mobile BGA only. Desktop FM2+ is getting a refresh of Kaveri this year called Godavari.

Lol, the names that intel and AMD come up with (Devils canyon, Godavari) are so goofy sometimes.

 

[skurtov]

This is extremely impressive for AMD. Props to them, I'm excited to see what Carrizo brings to the table. I can see a high end Carrizo possibly making it into my notebook.

 

[Robert Ostrowski]

wow more articles about amd apus that are meant for laptops, tablets, and convertibles. now if any company actually uses them.....

 

[ykki]

AMD please update your 7700k/7850k with the carrizo apu.
Not like 65w models but 95w ones so we can see how much potential they really have. Also you(AMD) need a cpu to combat the i3's.

 

[wolverine96]

I'm looking forward to AMD's next desktop line of processors. I'm sure they've got something up their sleeve!

 

[guner451]

No impressed, 5% IPC? give me a break! This is just more AMD marketing hype and not much more. They already moved the south bridge onto the chip for the small cores last year (which they are now calling carrizo-L or some such nonsense) so doing this for the big core while may save a few bucks for the manufacturers is nothing to crow about.

I don't see this as being competitive unless AMD really drops the price so that their top end chip undercuts the Intel i3. Hopefully AMD can stay in business long enough to get their new K12 chips out there on 14nm process or you can stick a fork in AMD as they well be toast at that time. May be toast anyway looking at their level of debt, any pop up interest rates will kill them.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

hope they can walk the walk as well as they talk the talk, we remember all the promoses of bulldozer right?

On a side note, an add pops up on your site Toms, "security center alert, virus alert, click to block the attack". I bet that add leads to malware. Why is this on your site Toms?

 

[wolverine96]

Lol, the names that intel and AMD come up with (Devils canyon, Godavari) are so goofy sometimes.

That would make a fun thread. "Make up a name for a processor!"

 

[ykki]

Lol, the names that intel and AMD come up with (Devils canyon, Godavari) are so goofy sometimes.

That would make a fun thread. "Make up a name for a processor!"

Yes! YES! YES!!!

 

[Calculatron]

If they really are ditching steamroller cores for the desktop, I hope that the Kaveri refresh has some real balls to it. Preferably something that allows your average user to pass that 4.5ghz threshold that often is an issue, even for people using higher-end motherboards.

If not, my A10-5800K paired with a GTX 670 (The horror!) is still more than good enough to hold out until Zen arrives. *shrugs*

 

[kenjitamura]

If they release some low cost NON-ULV parts for the notebook segment then I'm interested. But if they only release ULV's for the low segment count me out. Sick of all the cheap notebooks only having crappy low performance/low voltage parts.

 

[bit_user]

If they really are ditching steamroller cores for the desktop, I hope that the Kaveri refresh has some real balls to it.

Don't get your hopes up. Specs on the refresh have already been leaked. You can find them with a web search.

 

[AK B]

Lol, the names that intel and AMD come up with (Devils canyon, Godavari) are so goofy sometimes.

Actually, both Kaveri and Godavari are Indian rivers.

 

[beoza]

Hmm a "Pick our next CPU name." could be a cool promotional stunt. Lucky winner gets a free CPU and some other goodies. I mean why not soda and snack makers have done this recently with "pick our next flavor" contests.

 

[Hotthuizen]

Verry nice !