AMD's Kaveri Arrives WIth Full Support For HSA, Faster Graphics, and Improved CPU Cores
Both Intel and AMD have quite successfully combined CPU and GPU engines onto single chips, but up to this point they have tended to work as autonomous islands. The CPU and GPU share some resources, but not a single memory pool. That changes today though, with the official launch of AMD’s Kaveri-based APUs, the first APUs to truly support heterogeneous computing.
Kaveri combines AMD’s latest Steamroller CPU microarchitecture with a GCN-based graphics engine, with up to 512 stream processors. Peak CPU clocks will vary depending on model, but the graphics clock maxes out at 720MHz. These AMD desktop-targeted APUs will carry TDPs of 45W – 95W.
The GCN-based graphics engine in Kaveri is a major step-up over the previous-gen, and much more powerful than Intel’s mainstream offerings but how does AMD's new CPU core measure up to Intel and what does the total Kaveri package bring to the table for mainstream consumers?
Read on and we'll step through AMD's new Kaveri APU in detail along with the benchmarks.
Kaveri combines AMD’s latest Steamroller CPU microarchitecture with a GCN-based graphics engine, with up to 512 stream processors. Peak CPU clocks will vary depending on model, but the graphics clock maxes out at 720MHz. These AMD desktop-targeted APUs will carry TDPs of 45W – 95W.
The GCN-based graphics engine in Kaveri is a major step-up over the previous-gen, and much more powerful than Intel’s mainstream offerings but how does AMD's new CPU core measure up to Intel and what does the total Kaveri package bring to the table for mainstream consumers?
Read on and we'll step through AMD's new Kaveri APU in detail along with the benchmarks.
