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AMD Launches 7th Gen APUs Bristol Ridge
After a pre-release mini launch earlier in the year, we are finally getting AMD’s 7th generation APUs. Codenamed Bristol Ridge, the new chip lineup bridges the gap between current offerings and the upcoming Zen CPUs and APUs. The big reveal is a new line of A9 APUs which supplements the…
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AMD Launches A10 7890K and Athlon X4 880K
AMD has been getting ever more cyclical with their releases after their latest organizational shuffle. Last month, we saw the launch of the A10 7860K & Athlon X4 845 APU and CPU and this month we’re 2 more chips. Today, we are getting the A10 7890K and Athlon X4 880K, both of…
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AMD Launches A10 7860K & Athlon X4 845
Despite being stuck on the 28nm node for the past while, AMD has been working to bring more CPUs to consumers with better binning and performance as the process and technology matures. Case in point is the A10-7860K Godavari and Athlon X8 845 Carrizo chips launching today. Both chips are focused on…
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AMD Releases Mobile Carrizo APUs and Cuts Desktop Kaveri Pricing
AMD is busy releasing the OEM models and mobile solutions in order to get that part out of the way early as well as prevent anything from stealing news space from their highly anticipated next generation of CPUs, APUs and not to forget GPUs such as the R9 390x liquid cooled…
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AMD Could Release a New Kaveri APU Soon
AMD are forever in the back seat of the CPU market, but in recent years they have dominated the low price point gaming sector with their line up of Accelerated Processor Units (APU). This is basically a hybrid CPU with real GPU cores crammed in. The newest version, Kaveri has…
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AMD Release Details of Carrizo APU at ISSCC
AMD revealed at the prestigious International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) that its upcoming A-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), codenamed “Carrizo”, will deliver new, advanced power management technologies while achieving substantial performance through new “Excavator” x86 CPU cores and a new generation of AMD Radeon™ GPU cores. Using a…
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ASUS Crossblade Ranger (FM2+) Motherboard Review
Introduction and Closer Look The last time ASUS released a Republic of Gamers series motherboard for an AMD platform was way back in late 2011. The motherboard in question was the ASUS Crosshair V Formula which ASUS have since refurbished and re-released as the Crosshair V Formula-Z. The key theme…
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AMD APUs Get a Significant Price Cut
The only thing better than technology is technology at a reduced price. In what is likely a move to combat Intels G3258 budget CPU, AMD has cut the MSRP on a lot of APUs and you can save up to 30 percent on some models. The current flagship Kaveri A10-7850K…
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New AMD FM2+ CPU Spotted
A new AMD CPU has been spotted in the support manual for the FM2A88X Pro+ motherboard from AsRock. The new CPU has a model number of 450 and the Athlon branding, so it probably won’t have an integrated GPU. With the Athlon X4 860K being released next week, it’s logical…
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AMD Preparing Round of APU Price Cuts
In the western market the “Back-To-School” shopping season is nearly upon us. It is that time of year where parents and students alike dump copious amounts of money into buying new desktop and laptop computers so what better time for AMD to drop some of their APU prices than now.…
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AMD APU: How Much Progress Has Been Made?
Introduction Cast your mind back to mid-2011 when AMD released its first “APU”. Back then “APU” (Accelerated Processing Unit) was a term not many of us were familiar with, although the concept wasn’t alien as we’ve had it for quite some time: a CPU that also provides a GPU. Up until the…
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Rumour: AMD “Carrizo” Desktop APUs Delayed, Kaveri Refresh To Fill The Gap
We’ve heard a lot about AMD’s Next-Generation desktop APU platform, codename Carrizo. Last year we heard that the expected arrival date was to be 2015, and up until now we thought this was still on-track especially when details about the A10-8890K APU were released that showed support for a new FM3…
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AMD A10-7800 “Kaveri” APU Review
Introduction & What’s New? In January 2014 AMD unveiled its latest generation of accelerated processing units dubbed “Kaveri”. The range was formed of the A10-7850K flagship, the A10-7700K mid-range part and the entry level & low power A8-7600. Back in February I conducted a comprehensive performance analysis of all the…
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AMD Hints At Upcoming CPU/APU Release With “Core Is Back” Teaser Video
Quite a few days ago AMD posted up a teaser video bearing the slogan “Core is Back”. In the past AMD have used such a slogan before the launch of a new CPU or APU product. Of course we’ve already seen AMD re-launch its FX-9590 as a retail CPU with…
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AMD Announces the Specifications for its Upcoming Kaveri Mobility APUs
It appears that AMD has just revealed the specifications of their upcoming Mobility Kaveri APU lineup via AMD’s website, indicating that the company is planning to launch the lineup as soon as possible, having Computex 2014 in June as possible date of launch. The AMD Mobility Kaveri APU lineup is…
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