Wednesday, October 7th 2015
AMD Pro A12 "Carrizo" Chip Offers TDP as Low as 12W
AMD's "Excavator" module could fetch big power dividends for the company, with the top of the line Pro A12 "Carrizo" APU for mobile platforms offering TDP as low as 12W (normal usage), going up to 35W (maximum stress). AMD allows users to set the TDP for their processors. Built on the existing 28 nm process, these chips offer TDPs as low as the ones offered by Intel, built on 22 nm and even 14 nm nodes.
This is made possible because "Excavator" features heavily compacted registers and decode engines, and AMD spent a lot of R&D kicking out redundant or useless components from the silicon. The recently launched A-Series Pro "Carrizo" APUs feature two "Excavator" modules (four CPU cores), a GPU with eight GCN 1.2 compute units (512 stream processors), 2 MB of total cache, dual-channel DDR3-2133 integrated memory controllers.
This is made possible because "Excavator" features heavily compacted registers and decode engines, and AMD spent a lot of R&D kicking out redundant or useless components from the silicon. The recently launched A-Series Pro "Carrizo" APUs feature two "Excavator" modules (four CPU cores), a GPU with eight GCN 1.2 compute units (512 stream processors), 2 MB of total cache, dual-channel DDR3-2133 integrated memory controllers.
39 Comments on AMD Pro A12 "Carrizo" Chip Offers TDP as Low as 12W
As far as I am concerned I will consider the base frequnecy performance as final because I do not know to which frequency it was locked to but base frequency performance is guaranteed.
FX-8800p beats Intel Core i5-5200U in gaming/graphics.
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15 watts FX-8800p (score of ~2000 points) vs 35 watts FX-8800p in 3DMarks 11.
www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10071051
Intel HD Graphics 5300 Mobile IGP and Intel Core M-5Y10c Processor in 3DMarks 11 with P807 score.
It's mostly IGP benchmark test that can be replicated. LOL.
My desktop Intel Haswells has IGP LOL.
www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5955215
P2216 score with Intel HD Graphics 4000 Mobile(1x) and Intel Core i7-3635QM.
Also, you are forgetting
1. FX-8800p's 8 CU IGP would be a good solution to crossfire with 8 or 10 CU GPU. Surface Book form factor would be nice and AMD has problems with 2-in-1 form factors. AMD doesn't have a solution with 13 inch tablet with 15 watt APU/SoC and docking keyboard case's GPU. MS Surface Book with NVIDIA GPU would be a candidate for my next 2-in-1 tablet/laptop.
2. My 8870M is from year 2013 and has been overclock to 850Mhz via MSI Afterburner tool, hence beating year 2015 MacBook Pro's Radeon R9 M370X's 10 CU at 800Mhz.
Honestly way off topic, but if AMD wants to gain momentum in the CPU market all they need to do is start stuffing AMD stickers on the wii u, xbox one and PS4. People need the brand recognition and those are all components that work and work well.
In my case, lid hinge is usually the first to go (break down, I mean).
I wonder what is the "standard" CPU frequency.