AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known as Fusion, is a series of 64-bit
microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit, or a small number of integrated circuits. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circu ...
s from
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), combining a general-purpose
AMD64 central processing unit (
CPU
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
) and
integrated graphics processing unit
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory (computing), memory to accelerate the creation of Digital image, images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs ...
(IGPU) on a single
die
Die, as a verb, refers to death, the cessation of life.
Die may also refer to:
Games
* Die, singular of dice, small throwable objects used for producing random numbers
Manufacturing
* Die (integrated circuit), a rectangular piece of a semicondu ...
.
AMD announced the first generation APUs, ''Llano'' for high-performance and ''Brazos'' for low-power devices, in January 2011. The second generation ''Trinity'' for high-performance and ''Brazos-2'' for low-power devices were announced in June 2012. The third generation ''Kaveri'' for high performance devices were launched in January 2014, while ''Kabini'' and ''Temash'' for low-power devices were announced in the summer of 2013. Since the launch of the
Zen microarchitecture, Ryzen and Athlon APUs have released to the global market as Raven Ridge on the DDR4 platform, after Bristol Ridge a year prior.
AMD has also supplied semi-custom APUs for consoles starting with the release of
Sony PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013 in ...
and
Microsoft Xbox One
The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Announced in May 2013, it is the successor to Xbox 360 and the third base console in the Xbox series of video game consoles. It was first released in North America, parts of ...
eighth generation video game consoles.
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
CPUs with integrated
Intel Graphics Technology also have a CPU and GPU on a single die, but they do not offer
HSA support.
History
The AMD Fusion project started in 2006 with the aim of developing a
system on a chip
A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC ; pl. ''SoCs'' ) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. These components almost always include a central processing unit (CPU), memory ...
that combined a CPU with a GPU on a single
die
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Die may also refer to:
Games
* Die, singular of dice, small throwable objects used for producing random numbers
Manufacturing
* Die (integrated circuit), a rectangular piece of a semicondu ...
. This effort was moved forward by AMD's acquisition of graphics chipset manufacturer
ATI
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**Ati language (Philippines), the language spoken by this people group
** Ati-Atihan festival, an annual celebration held in the Philippines
*Ati language (China), a ...
in 2006. The project reportedly required three internal iterations of the Fusion concept to create a product deemed worthy of release.
Reasons contributing to the delay of the project include the technical difficulties of combining a CPU and GPU on the same die at a 45 nm process, and conflicting views on what the role of the CPU and GPU should be within the project.
The first generation desktop and laptop APU, codenamed ''Llano'', was announced on 4 January 2011 at the 2011
CES show in Las Vegas and released shortly thereafter.
It featured
K10 CPU cores and a
Radeon HD 6000 series GPU on the same die on the
FM1 socket. An APU for low-power devices was announced as the ''Brazos'' platform, based on the
Bobcat microarchitecture and a Radeon HD 6000 series GPU on the same die.
At a conference in January 2012, corporate fellow Phil Rogers announced that AMD would re-brand the Fusion platform as the
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA), stating that "it's only fitting that the name of this evolving architecture and platform be representative of the entire, technical community that is leading the way in this very important area of technology and programming development."
However, it was later revealed that AMD had been the subject of a
trademark infringement
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lawsuit by the Swiss company
Arctic
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, who used the name "Fusion" for a line of
power supply products.
The second generation desktop and laptop APU, codenamed ''Trinity'' was announced at AMD's 2010 Financial Analyst Day and released in October 2012. It featured
Piledriver CPU cores and
Radeon HD 7000 series GPU cores on the
FM2 socket. AMD released a new APU based on the Piledriver microarchitecture on 12 March 2013 for Laptops/Mobile and on 4 June 2013 for desktops under the codename ''Richland''.
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The second generation APU for low-power devices, ''Brazos 2.0'', used exactly the same APU chip, but ran at higher clock speed and
rebranded
Rebranding is a marketing strategy in which a new name, term, symbol, design, concept or combination thereof is created for an established brand with the intention of developing a new, differentiated identity in the minds of consumers, investors ...
the GPU as Radeon HD 7000 series and used a new I/O controller chip.
Semi-custom chips were introduced in the Microsoft Xbox One and
Sony PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013 in ...
video game consoles,
and subsequently in the Microsoft
Xbox Series X, S and Sony
PlayStation 5
The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 4 in April 2019, it was launched on November 12, 2020, in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North Ame ...
consoles.
A third generation of the technology was released on 14 January 2014, featuring greater integration between CPU and GPU. The desktop and laptop variant is codenamed ''Kaveri'', based on the
Steamroller architecture, while the low-power variants, codenamed ''Kabini'' and ''Temash'', are based on the
Jaguar architecture.
Since the introduction of
Zen-based processors, AMD renamed their APUs as the Ryzen with Radeon Graphics and Athlon with Radeon Graphics, with desktop units assigned with G suffix on their model numbers to distinguish itself with regular processors (e.g. Ryzen 5 3400G & Athlon 3000G) and also to differentiate away from their former
Bulldozer
A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous track ...
era ''A-series'' APUs. The mobile counterparts were always paired with Radeon Graphics regardless of suffixes.
In November 2017, HP released the Envy x360, featuring the Ryzen 5 2500U APU, the first 4th generation APU, based on the Zen CPU architecture and the Vega graphics architecture.
Features
Heterogeneous System Architecture
AMD is a founding member of the
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation and is consequently actively working on developing
HSA in cooperation with other members. The following hardware and software implementations are available in AMD's APU-branded products:
Feature overview
APU-branded platforms
AMD APUs have a unique architecture: they have AMD CPU modules, cache, and a discrete-class graphics processor, all on the same die using the same bus. This architecture allows for the use of graphics accelerators, such as OpenCL, with the integrated graphics processor. The goal is to create a "fully integrated" APU, which, according to AMD, will eventually feature 'heterogeneous cores' capable of processing both CPU and GPU work automatically, depending on the workload requirement.
TeraScale-based GPU
K10 architecture (2011): Llano
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* "Stars"
AMD K10-cores
* Integrated
Evergreen/VLIW5-based GPU (branded
Radeon HD 6000 Series)
*
Northbridge
*
PCIe
*
DDR3
Double Data Rate 3 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR3 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) with a high bandwidth ("double data rate") interface, and has been in use since 2007. It is the higher-speed ...
memory controller to arbitrate between
coherent
Coherence, coherency, or coherent may refer to the following:
Physics
* Coherence (physics), an ideal property of waves that enables stationary (i.e. temporally and spatially constant) interference
* Coherence (units of measurement), a deri ...
and non-coherent memory requests.
The
physical memory is partitioned between the GPU (up to 512
MB) and the CPU (the remainder).
*
Unified Video Decoder
*
AMD Eyefinity multi-monitor-support
The first generation APU, released in June 2011, was used in both desktops and laptops. It was based on the K10 architecture and built on a 32 nm process featuring two to four CPU cores on a
thermal design power (TDP) of 65-100 W, and integrated graphics based on the Radeon HD6000 Series with support for
DirectX 11
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", ...
,
OpenGL
OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardwa ...
4.2 and
OpenCL
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-progra ...
1.2. In performance comparisons against the similarly priced
Intel Core i3-2105, the Llano APU was criticised for its poor CPU performance and praised for its better GPU performance. AMD was later criticised for abandoning Socket FM1 after one generation.
Bobcat architecture (2011): Ontario, Zacate, Desna, Hondo
*
Bobcat
The bobcat (''Lynx rufus''), also known as the red lynx, is a medium-sized cat native to North America. It ranges from southern Canada through most of the contiguous United States to Oaxaca in Mexico. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUC ...
-based CPU
*
Evergreen/VLIW5-based GPU (branded
Radeon HD 6000 Series and
Radeon HD 7000 Series)
*
Northbridge
*
PCIe support.
*
DDR3 SDRAM
Double Data Rate 3 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR3 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) with a high bandwidth (" double data rate") interface, and has been in use since 2007. It is the higher-speed ...
memory controller to arbitrate between
coherent
Coherence, coherency, or coherent may refer to the following:
Physics
* Coherence (physics), an ideal property of waves that enables stationary (i.e. temporally and spatially constant) interference
* Coherence (units of measurement), a deri ...
and non-coherent memory requests.
The
physical memory is partitioned between the GPU (up to 512 MB) and the CPU (the remainder).
*
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
The AMD Brazos platform was introduced on 4 January 2011, targeting the
subnotebook,
netbook
Netbook was a commonly used term that identified a product class of small and inexpensive laptops which were sold from 2007 to around 2013. These machines were designed primarily as cost-effective tools for consumers to access the Inte ...
and low power
small form factor markets.
It features the 9-watt AMD C-Series APU (codename: Ontario) for netbooks and low power devices as well as the 18-watt AMD E-Series APU (codename: Zacate) for mainstream and value notebooks,
all-in-ones and small form factor desktops. Both APUs feature one or two Bobcat x86 cores and a Radeon
Evergreen
In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional through more than one growing season. This also pertains to plants that retain their foliage only in warm climates, and contrasts with deciduous plants, which ...
Series GPU with full DirectX11,
DirectCompute Microsoft DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that supports running compute kernels on general-purpose computing on graphics processing units on Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7 and later versions. DirectCompute is part ...
and OpenCL support including
UVD3 video acceleration for HD video including
1080p
1080p (1920×1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen vert ...
.
AMD expanded the Brazos platform on 5 June 2011 with the announcement of the 5.9-watt AMD Z-Series APU (codename: Desna) designed for the
Tablet
Tablet may refer to:
Medicine
* Tablet (pharmacy), a mixture of pharmacological substances pressed into a small cake or bar, colloquially called a "pill"
Computing
* Tablet computer, a mobile computer that is primarily operated by touching the s ...
market.
The Desna APU is based on the 9-watt Ontario APU. Energy savings were achieved by lowering the CPU, GPU and northbridge voltages, reducing the idle clocks of the CPU and GPU as well as introducing a hardware thermal control mode.
A bidirectional
turbo core mode was also introduced.
AMD announced the Brazos-T platform on 9 October 2012. It comprised the 4.5-watt AMD Z-Series APU (codenamed ''Hondo'') and the A55T Fusion Controller Hub (FCH), designed for the tablet computer market. The Hondo APU is a redesign of the Desna APU. AMD lowered energy use by optimizing the APU and FCH for tablet computers.
The Deccan platform including Krishna and Wichita APUs were cancelled in 2011. AMD had originally planned to release them in the second half 2012.
Piledriver architecture (2012): Trinity and Richland
*
Piledriver-based CPU
*
Northern Islands/VLIW4-based GPU (branded
Radeon HD 7000 and
8000 Series)
* Unified
Northbridge – includes AMD Turbo Core 3.0, which enables automatic bidirectional power management between
CPU
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
modules and
GPU. Power to the
CPU
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
and
GPU is controlled automatically by changing the
clock rate depending on the
load
Load or LOAD may refer to:
Aeronautics and transportation
*Load factor (aeronautics), the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weight
*Passenger load factor, the ratio of revenue passenger miles to available seat miles of a particular transpo ...
. For example, for a non-
overclocked A10-5800K APU the
CPU
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
frequency can change from 1.4 GHz to 4.2 GHz, and the
GPU frequency can change from 304 MHz to 800 MHz. In addition, CC6 mode is capable of powering down individual CPU cores, while PC6 mode is able to lower the power on the entire rail.
* AMD HD Media Accelerator
– includes AMD Perfect Picture HD, AMD Quick Stream technology, and AMD Steady Video technology.
*
Display controllers:
AMD Eyefinity-support for
multi-monitor set-ups,
HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, ...
,
DisplayPort
DisplayPort (DP) is a digital display interface developed by a consortium of PC and chip manufacturers and standardized by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is primarily used to connect a video source to a display device su ...
1.2,
DVI
Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video display interface developed by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG). The digital interface is used to connect a video source, such as a video display controller, to a display device, such as a comp ...
;Trinity
The first iteration of the second generation platform, released in October 2012, brought improvements to CPU and GPU performance to both desktops and laptops. The platform features 2 to 4 Piledriver CPU cores built on a 32 nm process with a TDP between 65 W and 100 W, and a GPU based on the Radeon HD7000 Series with support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.2, and OpenCL 1.2. The Trinity APU was praised for the improvements to CPU performance compared to the Llano APU.
;Richland
* "Enhanced
Piledriver" CPU cores
* Temperature Smart Turbo Core technology. An advancement of the existing Turbo Core technology, which allows internal software to adjust the CPU and GPU clock speed to maximise performance within the constraints of the
Thermal design power of the APU.
* New low-power consumption CPUs with only 45 W TDP
The release of this second iteration of this generation was 12 March 2013 fo
mobile partsand 5 June 2013 fo
desktop parts
Graphics Core Next-based GPU
Jaguar architecture (2013): Kabini and Temash
*
Jaguar
The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus '' Panthera'' native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the th ...
-based CPU
*
Graphics Core Next 2nd Gen-based GPU
*
Socket AM1
Socket FS1b (rebranded as Socket AM1 ) is a socket designed by AMD, launched in April 2014 for desktop SoCs in the value segment. Socket AM1 is intended for a class of CPUs that contain both an integrated GPU and a chipset, essentially forming a ...
and
Socket FT3
AMD's Socket FT3 or BGA-769 targets mobile devices and was designed for APUs codenamed ''Kabini'' and ''Temash'', ''Beema'' and ''Mullins'' (Socket FT3b).
''"Kabini"''- and ''"Temash"''-branded products combine Jaguar with Islands (GCN), UVD 3 ...
support
* Target segment desktop and mobile
In January 2013 the Jaguar-based Kabini and Temash APUs were unveiled as the successors of the Bobcat-based Ontario, Zacate and Hondo APUs.
The Kabini APU is aimed at the low-power, subnotebook, netbook, ultra-thin and small form factor markets, while the Temash APU is aimed at the tablet, ultra-low power and small form factor markets.
The two to four Jaguar cores of the Kabini and Temash APUs feature numerous architectural improvements regarding power requirement and performance, such as support for newer x86-instructions, a higher
IPC
IPC may refer to:
Computing
* Infrastructure protection centre or information security operations center
* Instructions per cycle or instructions per clock, an aspect of central-processing performance
* Inter-process communication, the sharin ...
count, a CC6 power state mode and
clock gating.
Kabini and Temash are AMD's first, and also the first ever quad-core x86 based
SoCs
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Genes
* CISH
* SOCS1
* SOCS2
* SOCS3
* SOCS4
* SOCS5
* SOCS6
* SOCS7
Suppressor of cytokine signaling 7 is a pro ...
. The integrated
Fusion Controller Hubs (FCH) for Kabini and Temash are codenamed "Yangtze" and "Salton", respectively.
The Yangtze FCH features support for two USB 3.0 ports, two SATA 6 Gbit/s ports, as well as the xHCI 1.0 and SD/SDIO 3.0 protocols for SD-card support.
Both chips feature DirectX 11.1-compliant
GCN-based graphics as well as numerous HSA improvements.
They were fabricated at a 28 nm process in an FT3
ball grid array package by
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company, the world' ...
(TSMC), and were released on 23 May 2013.
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were revealed to both be powered by 8-core semi-custom Jaguar-derived APUs.
Steamroller architecture (2014): Kaveri
![AMD A8-7650K 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/AMD_A8-7650K_01.jpg)
*
Steamroller
A steamroller (or steam roller) is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for leveling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine. The leveling/flattening action is achieved through ...
-based CPU with 2–4 cores
*
Graphics Core Next 2nd Gen-based GPU with 192–512 shader processors
* 15–95 W thermal design power
* Fastest mobile processor of this series: AMD FX-7600P (35 W)
* Fastest desktop processor of this series: AMD A10-7850K (95 W)
*
Socket FM2+
Socket FM2+ (FM2b, FM2r2) is a zero insertion force CPU socket designed by AMD for their desktop "Kaveri" APUs (Steamroller-based) and Godavari APUs (Steamroller-based) to connect to the motherboard. The FM2+ has a slightly different pin configur ...
and
Socket FP3
* Target segment desktop and mobile
*
Heterogeneous System Architecture-enabled
zero-copy
"Zero-copy" describes computer operations in which the CPU does not perform the task of copying data from one memory area to another or in which unnecessary data copies are avoided. This is frequently used to save CPU cycles and memory bandwid ...
ing through
pointer passing
The third generation of the platform, codenamed Kaveri, was partly released on 14 January 2014. Kaveri contains up to four Steamroller CPU cores clocked to 3.9 GHz with a turbo mode of 4.1 GHz, up to a 512-core Graphics Core Next GPU, two decode units per module instead of one (which allows each core to decode four instructions per cycle instead of two), AMD TrueAudio,
Mantle API, an on-chip ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore, and will release with a new socket, FM2+. Ian Cutress and Rahul Garg of
Anandtech
''AnandTech'' is an online computer hardware magazine owned by Future plc. It was founded in 1997 by then-14-year-old Anand Lal Shimpi, who served as CEO and editor-in-chief until August 30, 2014, with Ryan Smith replacing him as editor-in-chief ...
asserted that Kaveri represented the unified system-on-a-chip realization of AMD's acquisition of ATI. The performance of the 45 W A8-7600 Kaveri APU was found to be similar to that of the 100 W Richland part, leading to the claim that AMD made significant improvements in on-die graphics performance per watt;
however, CPU performance was found to lag behind similarly specified Intel processors, a lag that was unlikely to be resolved in the Bulldozer family APUs.
The A8-7600 component was delayed from a Q1 launch to an H1 launch because the Steamroller architecture components allegedly did not scale well at higher clock speeds.
AMD announced the release of the Kaveri APU for the mobile market on 4 June 2014 at
Computex
COMPUTEX Taipei, or Taipei International Information Technology Show (), is a computer expo held annually in Taipei, Taiwan. Since the early 2000s, it is one of the largest computer and technology trade shows in the world.
The last COMPUTEX was ...
2014,
shortly after the accidental announcement on the AMD website on 26 May 2014. The announcement included components targeted at the standard voltage, low-voltage, and ultra-low voltage segments of the market. In early-access performance testing of a Kaveri prototype laptop, AnandTech found that the 35 W FX-7600P was competitive with the similarly priced 17 W Intel i7-4500U in synthetic CPU-focused benchmarks, and was significantly better than previous integrated GPU systems on GPU-focused benchmarks.
Tom's Hardware
''Tom's Hardware'' is an online publication owned by Future plc and focused on technology. It was founded in 1996 by Thomas Pabst. It provides articles, news, price comparisons, videos and reviews on computer hardware and high technology. The si ...
reported the performance of the Kaveri FX-7600P against the 35 W
Intel i7-4702MQ, finding that the i7-4702MQ was significantly better than the FX-7600P in synthetic CPU-focused benchmarks, whereas the FX-7600P was significantly better than the i7-4702MQ's
Intel HD 4600 iGPU in the four games that could be tested in the time available to the team.
Puma architecture (2014): Beema and Mullins
*
Puma
Puma or PUMA may refer to:
Animals
* ''Puma'' (genus), a genus in the family Felidae
** Puma (species) or cougar, a large cat
Businesses and organisations
* Puma (brand), a multinational shoe and sportswear company
* Puma Energy, a mid- and d ...
-based CPU
*
Graphics Core Next 2nd Gen-based GPU with 128 shader processors
*
Socket FT3
AMD's Socket FT3 or BGA-769 targets mobile devices and was designed for APUs codenamed ''Kabini'' and ''Temash'', ''Beema'' and ''Mullins'' (Socket FT3b).
''"Kabini"''- and ''"Temash"''-branded products combine Jaguar with Islands (GCN), UVD 3 ...
* Target segment ultra-mobile
Puma+ architecture (2015): Carrizo-L
*
Puma+-based CPU with 2–4 cores
*
Graphics Core Next 2nd Gen-based GPU with 128 shader processors
* 12–25 W configurable TDP
*
Socket FP4 support; pin-compatible with Carrizo
* Target segment mobile and ultra-mobile
Excavator architecture (2015): Carrizo
*
Excavator
Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. They are a natural progression fro ...
-based CPU with 4 cores
*
Graphics Core Next 3rd Gen-based GPU
*
Memory controller supports DDR3 SDRAM at 2133 MHz and DDR4 SDRAM at 1866 MHz
* 15–35 W configurable TDP (with the 15 W cTDP unit having reduced performance)
* Integrated
southbridge
*
Socket FP4
* Target segment mobile
* Announced by AMD on
YouTube
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(19 November 2014)
Steamroller architecture (Q2–Q3 2015): Godavari
* Update of the desktop Kaveri series with higher clock frequencies or smaller power envelope
* Steamroller-based CPU with 4 cores
*
Graphics Core Next 2nd Gen-based GPU
* Memory controller supports DDR3 SDRAM at 2133 MHz
* 65/95 W TDP with support for configurable TDP
*
Socket FM2+
Socket FM2+ (FM2b, FM2r2) is a zero insertion force CPU socket designed by AMD for their desktop "Kaveri" APUs (Steamroller-based) and Godavari APUs (Steamroller-based) to connect to the motherboard. The FM2+ has a slightly different pin configur ...
* Target segment desktop
* Listed since Q2 2015
Excavator architecture (2016): Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge
![AMD A12-9800](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/AMD_A12-9800.jpg)
* Excavator-based CPU with 2–4 cores
* 1 MB L2 cache per module
*
Graphics Core Next 3rd Gen-based GPU
* Memory controller supports DDR4 SDRAM
* 15/35/45/65 W TDP with support for configurable TDP
* 28 nm
*
Socket AM4
Socket AM4 is a PGA microprocessor socket used by AMD's central processing units (CPUs) built on the Zen (including Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3) and Excavator microarchitectures.
''AM4'' was launched in September 2016 and was designed to replace the ...
for desktop
* Target segment desktop, mobile and ultra-mobile
Zen architecture (2017): Raven Ridge
*
Zen-based CPU cores with
simultaneous multithreading
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is a technique for improving the overall efficiency of superscalar CPUs with hardware multithreading. SMT permits multiple independent threads of execution to better use the resources provided by modern process ...
(SMT)
* 512 KB
L2 cache per core
* 4 MB L3 cache
* Precision Boost 2
*
Graphics Core Next 5th Gen "Vega"-based GPU
*
Memory controller supports
DDR4 SDRAM
*
Video Core Next as successor of
UVD
Unified Video Decoder (UVD, previously called Universal Video Decoder) is the name given to AMD's dedicated video decoding ASIC. There are multiple versions implementing a multitude of video codecs, such as H.264 and VC-1.
UVD was introduced with ...
+
VCE
* 14 nm at
GlobalFoundries
*
Socket FP5
Socket may refer to:
Mechanics
* Socket wrench, a type of wrench that uses separate, removable sockets to fit different sizes of nuts and bolts
* Socket head screw, a screw (or bolt) with a cylindrical head containing a socket into which the hexag ...
for mobile
and
AM4 for desktop
* Target segment desktop and mobile
* Listed since Q4 2017
Zen+ architecture (2019): Picasso
*
Zen+-based CPU microarchitecture
* Refresh of Raven Ridge on 12 nm with improved latency and efficiency/clock frequency. Features similar to Raven Ridge
* Launched January 2019
Zen 2 architecture (2020): Renoir
*
Zen 2
Zen 2 is a computer processor microarchitecture by AMD. It is the successor of AMD's Zen and Zen+ microarchitectures, and is fabricated on the 7 nanometer MOSFET node from TSMC. The microarchitecture powers the third generation of Ryzen proces ...
-based CPU microarchitecture
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Graphics Core Next 5th Gen "Vega"-based GPU
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VCN 2.1
* Memory controller supports DDR4 and
LPDDR4X SDRAM up to 4266 MHz
* 15 and 45 W TDP for mobile and 35 and 65 W TDP for desktop
* 7 nm at
TSMC
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational corporation, multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semicon ...
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Socket FP6 for mobile and
socket AM4
Socket AM4 is a PGA microprocessor socket used by AMD's central processing units (CPUs) built on the Zen (including Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3) and Excavator microarchitectures.
''AM4'' was launched in September 2016 and was designed to replace the ...
for desktop
* Release early 2020
Zen 3 architecture (2021): Cezanne
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Zen 3
Zen 3 is the codename for a CPU microarchitecture by AMD, released on November 5, 2020. It is the successor to Zen 2 and uses TSMC's 7 nm process, 7 nm process for the chiplets and GlobalFoundries's 14 nm process, 14 nm process for the I/O die on ...
-based CPU microarchitecture
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Graphics Core Next 5th Gen "Vega"-based GPU
* Memory controller supports DDR4 and LPDDR4X SDRAM up to 4266 MHz
* Up to 45 W TDP for mobile;
35W to 65W TDP for desktop.
* 7 nm at
TSMC
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational corporation, multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semicon ...
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Socket AM4
Socket AM4 is a PGA microprocessor socket used by AMD's central processing units (CPUs) built on the Zen (including Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3) and Excavator microarchitectures.
''AM4'' was launched in September 2016 and was designed to replace the ...
for desktop
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Socket FP6 for mobile
* Released for mobiles early 2021
with desktop counterparts released in April 2021.
RDNA-based GPU
Zen 3+ architecture (2022): Rembrandt
* Zen 3+ based CPU microarchitecture
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RDNA 2
RDNA ( Radeon DNA) is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture and accompanying instruction set architecture developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It is the successor to their Graphics Core Next (GCN) microarchitecture/instructi ...
-based GPU
* Memory controller supports DDR5-4800 and LPDDR5-6400
* Up to 45 W TDP for mobile
* Node:
TSMC
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational corporation, multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semicon ...
N6
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Socket FP7
Socket may refer to:
Mechanics
* Socket wrench, a type of wrench that uses separate, removable sockets to fit different sizes of nuts and bolts
* Socket head screw, a screw (or bolt) with a cylindrical head containing a socket into which the hexag ...
for mobile
* Released for mobiles early 2022
See also
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List of AMD accelerated processing units
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Ryzen
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AMD mobile platform
The AMD mobile platform is an open platform for laptops from AMD. Though little marketing was done on this platform, it has been competing with the Centrino platform in the segment to gain more marketshare. Each platform has its own specification, ...
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List of AMD mobile microprocessors Features overview CPUs
CPU features table APUs
APU features table
Initial platform (2003)
Launched in 2003, the initial platform for mobile AMD processors consists of:
Mobile Sempron "Dublin" (Socket 754, CG, 130 nm, Desktop replacement)
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Radeon
Radeon () is a brand of computer products, including graphics processing units, random-access memory, RAM disk software, and solid-state drives, produced by Radeon Technologies Group, a division of AMD. The brand was launched in 2000 by ATI Tech ...
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Intel Graphics Technology
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List of Nvidia graphics processing units
This list contains general information about graphics processing units (GPUs) and video cards from Nvidia, based on official specifications. In addition some Comparison of Nvidia nForce chipsets, Nvidia motherboards come with integrated onboard GPU ...
References
External links
* by Vinod Tipparaju at
SC13 in November 2013
HSA and the software ecosystemHSA
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AMD x86 microprocessors
System on a chip
Heterogeneous System Architecture