Trinity
AMD officially announced price cuts on their current APU product stack yesterday, which means the cost of a "mainstream" AMD system is now $20-$30 lower than before. Here's the quick rundown of features and pricing for the affected APUs, which include both the new Kaveri APUs as well as previous generation Richland APUs: AMD APU Pricing, October 2014 Kaveri APUs A-series APU Model CPU/GPU Cores CPU Clock Graphics GPU Clock TDP (cTDP) MSRP (USD) A10-7850K 4CPU + 512GPU 3.7-4.0 R7 720 95 (65/45) $143 A10-7800 4CPU + 512GPU 3.5-3.9 R7 720 65 (45) $133 A10-7700K 4CPU + 384GPU 3.4-3.8 R7 720 95 (65/45) $123 A8-7600 4CPU + 384GPU 3.1-3.8 R7 720 65 (45) $92 A6-7400K 2CPU + 256GPU 3.5-3.9 R5 756 65 (45) $58 Richland/Trinity APUs A10-6800K 4CPU + 384GPU 4.1-4.4 8670D 844 100 $112 A8-6600K 4CPU + 256GPU 3.9-4.2 8570D 844 100 $92 A4-6300 2CPU + 128GPU 3.7-3.9 8370D 760 65 $34 A4-5300 2CPU + 128GPU 3.4-3.7 7480D 723 65 $31 A4-4000 2CPU + 128GPU 3.0-3.2 7480D 720 65 $27 Obviously there are differences between the Kaveri and Richland/Trinity platforms and APUs, so keep in mind that Kaveri requires a socket FM2+ motherboard while Richland/Trinity uses socket FM2 (though there are boards that support...
Best Budget Laptops, April 2013
Last week we launched a new sort of buyer’s guide for AnandTech with our Best Budget Ultrabook recommendation. We’ll be fleshing out the “best XYZ” recommendations for other components...
39 by Jarred Walton on 4/5/2013Addendum Regarding AMD’s Mobility Catalyst 13.1 Drivers
Late last week AMD release their first drivers for 2013, the Catalyst 13.1 drivers. The drivers as noted already are available for both desktops and laptops, but I did...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/22/2013AMD's Radeon HD 7970M: Ivy Bridge vs. Trinity Video
In one of the most "interesting" moves I've seen in the mobile market, MSI has equipped their GX60 gaming notebook with an HD 7970M...paired with an AMD A10-4600M APU...
85 by Jarred Walton on 12/14/2012ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 Review
The answer to the question ‘What makes a good motherboard?’ can generate an alarming number of responses. When a manufacturer starts with a new chipset, the idealized view...
19 by Ian Cutress on 12/3/2012Holiday 2012 AMD Trinity Buyer's Guide
While AMD's second generation "Trinity" APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) have been available in pre-built desktops and laptops for many months now, the chips and accompanying motherboards themselves have only...
72 by Zach Throckmorton on 11/29/2012ASUS F2A85-V Pro Review: A Look at FM2 with A85X
The new release of Trinity processors on the desktop opens up a cascade of issues when it comes to choosing a new motherboard for your Trinity system. The...
66 by Ian Cutress on 10/10/2012AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 2
Last week we took a look at the GPU side of the desktop Trinity APUs. We looked at the top end 384-core Radeon HD 7660D configuration as well as...
178 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/2/2012The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 7
We're back with another podcast. This time we start out with a discussion of Borderlands 2 and philosophies on sidequests in games. We briefly talk about TI defocusing its...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/1/2012AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 1
After years of waiting, AMD finally unveiled its Llano APU platform fifteen months ago. The APU promise was a new world where CPUs and GPUs would live in harmony...
139 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/27/2012AMD Introduces FirePro A300 & A320 APUs: Trinity for Graphics Workstations
At its Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, AMD laid out its vision for the future of the company. For the most part the strategy sounded a lot like...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/7/2012Computex 2012: MSI and Trinity
At the MSI booth, we were treated to several interesting FM2 motherboards for upcoming Trinity desktop processors. In a variety of form factors (including miniITX!), MSI hope to...
8 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2012Gigabyte meets Trinity - A Computex Look At FM2 and A85
One of the meetings today was with Gigabyte, up on the 36F of the Taipei 101. We got a chance to see close up their FM2 prototype design...
10 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2012What We've Been Waiting For: Testing OpenCL Accelerated Handbrake with AMD's Trinity
AMD, and NVIDIA before it, has been trying to convince us of the usefulness of its GPUs for general purpose applications for years now. For a while it seemed...
60 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/15/2012The AMD Trinity Review (A10-4600M): A New Hope
AMD’s microprocessor history goes way back, predating even the now venerable x86 architecture. Their first foray into x86 territory came as a subcontractor to Intel, and from there AMD...
272 by Jarred Walton on 5/15/2012Toshiba Teases New Notebooks, Tablets
We recently had a chance to take a meeting with Toshiba representatives in San Francisco, California, where we were previewed their upcoming releases for 3Q12. Toshiba is essentially targeting...
21 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/11/2012AMD Clarifies 7000M Strategy
CES has wrapped up now and we’re all back home, but we’ve still got a few items to cover. While Anand was meeting with AMD on Thursday to go...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/14/2012AMD's Trinity APU at CES, Shipping in Mid-2012
AMD has a bunch of cool stuff to show off at this year's CES. The first is the most expected: a demo of its upcoming Trinity APU. The demo...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/12/2012Details on Trinity - AMD's Next Gen APU
DonahimHaber has leaked a slide concerning AMD's next generation APU, called Trinity. The slide does not reveal any detailed specifications, it's merely an overview of Trinity. Lets begin with...
44 by Kristian Vättö on 10/25/2011Look Out Bulldozer, Here Comes Trinity: AMD's 2012 Demo on Video at IDF
AMD's Bulldozer CPU is on the verge of being released. Sever markets will see the CPU soon, while desktop customers will have to wait until Q4 (which is only...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/14/2011