AMD Launches Kaveri APU with Radeon R7 Graphics

AMD Launches Kaveri APU with Radeon R7 Graphics. AMD fans are getting a great start in 2014 as AMD has already announced a new product to fuel their A-series fire. By now most fans have heard about the codename “Kaveri” that AMD says will be a major improvement in both performance and power consumption something, which will most assuredly get the attention of enthusiasts and gamers alike. What we know so far is this: Kaveri will have completely redesigned cores; a new Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) features, new accelerators, and enhanced power management on a redesigned 28nm manufacturing process.

It seems AMD really wants their APU series to take back market share from Intel in the mid range and entry level PC game and it looks like they are going in the right direction to accomplish this. The new Kaveri will contain 12 compute cores that is made up of 4 “Steamroller” CPU cores and 8 GCN GPU cores all on a die that measures in at 245mm2 with 2.41 billion transistors.

Onboard graphics is something that AMD needed to really improve on to get attention back to their APU platform. AMD went all-out in an effort to make Kaveri have thee best graphics available. Using the technology found on their Hawaii including Graphics Core Next (GCN), TrueAudio, Eyefinity, UVD, and VCE technologies.

This could be a great year for AMD and this statement made by AMD’s corporate VP/GM Bernd Lienhard gets the ball rolling: “AMD maintains our technology leadership with the 2014 AMD A-Series APUs, a revolutionary next generation APU that marks a new era of computing, “With world-class graphics and compute technology on a single chip, the AMD A-Series APU is an effective and efficient solution for our customers and enable industry-leading computing experiences.” AMD will begin this launch with the A10-7700K and 7850K SKUs and both come bundled with Battlefield 4 so you can instantly get up and start gaming.  Other lower-end SKUs like the A8-7600 will be released later in Q2 2014with no gaming bundle included. Overall I feel this is an amazing start of the year for AMD and I hope the APUs really rock in a gaming system, but for the moment we just have to wait a week or so to get our hands on one. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow.

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