First plate am4 and apu bristol ridge a12

An HP employee has leaked what appears to be the first photo of an AMD socket motherboard with a mounted Bristol Ridge A12-9800 APU. Recall that AM4 will be responsible for hosting Zen-based processors.

First AM4 socket motherboard leaked for Bristol Ridge and Summit Ridge

The board in question seems to be an HP model designed for an OEM team, so it is not a unit that we will be able to buy in the market. The most striking feature of the board is the AM4 socket that includes an A12-9800 APU belonging to the seventh generation.

Recall that the seventh generation of AMD APUs corresponds to the new AMD Bristol Ridge processors that consist of up to two modules based on the Excavator microarchitecture for a maximum of four cores with great energy efficiency and remarkable processing power. These two modules are accompanied by an integrated GPU based on GCN 1.2, the same architecture used in Tonga and Fiji. The main novelty at Bristol Ridge is the integration of a dual-channel DDR4 memory controller that will allow its integrated GPU to offer up to 50% higher performance than Kaveri.

We focus on the details of the board and we see a 5 phase VRM power that takes power through a 4-pin connector together with two 8 + 8 pins, HP has decided to do without the classic 24-pin ATX connector for this board base. We also note that the AM4 heatsink mounts are different from the AM3 heatsinks so we will need adapters to be able to use the same heatsinks, Noctua has already announced its upgrade kit to AM4.

Source: wccftech