Richland, Trinity, Kaveri - what's the difference?

[Roffen]

I am very confused wrt all the different species of AMD APU's offered. If I had read all that's written about the processor market lately I don't think I'd have bought an AMD based motherboard, but now I have to get an APU for the motherboard that I already have or write it off as a complete loss.

With no gaming, overclocking or other special interests, would it matter to me whether I buy a Richland, Trinity or Kaveri APU (running WIN XP(Sp3) for the FM2+ compatible motherboard that I already have?

When chosing whether to go for Intel or AMD, i was a litle fascinated with the integrated solutions offered by AMD's APU's.

 

[The Darkeye]

Hello,

Trinity supports FP2
Lynx supports FM1
Virgo supports FM2
Kabini supports FS1b 2/4 cores atleast
Kaveri supports FM2+ 2/4 cores atleast
Richland supports FM2+ 2/4 cores atleast

William

 

[Roffen]

Trinity won't work an ASUS A88XM-Plus motherboard?

Both Trinity and Richland worked on a Gigagbyte mobo but that just was not XP compatible and I thought any of them would work on the ASUS board so I just ordered a Trinity. Must I switch to Richland?

 

[madmatt30]

All 3 will work on that board no problem at all.

To be honest mate if you're not massively bothered about gaming then go for the best deal quad which tends to be the 5800k nowadays - its weaker on the graphics front but not massively on on the CPU side.

 

[Roffen]

Thank you, looks like a straight and to the point reply. Already ordered the A4-5300 , a dual only but hope it'll do for my kind of use. Already wasted more time & bucks than I ought to😉 but we always do, don't we?