Amd announces its apus carrizo

AMD has taken advantage of the event the Future of Compute event that took place yesterday in Singapore to announce their new Carrizo APUs for portable devices that will arrive in 2015 to offer good performance across the board.

The new AMD Carrizo and Carrizo-L APUs will hit the market sometime in the first quarter of 2015. They are the first APUs with full HSA support so harnessing the power of the GPU may be maximal to deliver great overall chip performance.

The most powerful versions will belong to Carrizo and will consist of up to four x86 cores with Excavator microarchitecture and up to 512 Shader Processors with GCN 1.2 architecture first introduced in AMD's Tonga GPU. For its part, the low-consumption chips will belong to Carrizo-L and will consist of up to 4 Puma + cores and graphics with lower performance and energy consumption.

Carrizo comes under a high-performance 28nm manufacturing process from Global Foundries and is primarily focused on increasing energy efficiency over Kaveri, AMD's previous generation of APUs with Steamrroller microarchitecture.

The new AMD Carrizo APUs arrive with support for the new Microsoft DirectX 12 API and OpenCL 2.0, the Mantle API, FreeSync and Microsoft's upcoming Windows 10 operating system.

For now, details of the Carrizo versions for desktop have not been announced, so it seems that AMD will give priority to the mobility sector.

Source: anandtech