More than a nice pair of Bristols
A new leaked roadmap shows that AMD is adding more to its upcoming Bristol Ridge family of APUs
For those who came in late Bristol Ridge is set to replace the mobile Carrizo APUs and Godavari APUs on desktop.
Desdenboy has found more details about the new mobile Bristol Ridge OPNs and put a few things together about the mobile Carrizo OPNs has created a mapping which represents what AMD is going to release as mobile Bristol Ridge chips for the FP4 socket sometime this year.
Model numbers apparently jump by one thousand from Carrizo's, with an additional thirty points for the 35W variants. The TDP ranges are split into 15W and 35W while the CPU base clocks jumps rather a lot.
The new A-Series 9000 features clock speeds ranging from 2.5 to 3.6 GHz base and 2.8 to 4.0 GHz boost clocks.
AMD said that the performance improvement over Carrizo family was the result of AMD engineers "applying more aggressive power management to the 28nm design. The Bristol Ridge design was a study in using power management to overcome performance limits tied to heat, voltage and current."
The Bristol Ridge AM4 APU family will pack 8 SKUs, out of which seven SKUs are based on a quad core design while one chip retains a dual core design. The AM4 platform includes the x86 Excavator based Bristol Ridge APUs for mainstream desktop systems and the Zen based Summit Ridge processors for enthusiast grade desktop systems.
AMD is expected to launch Bristol Ridge APUs in the first half of 2016. By the time, users will have a range of AM4 motherboard options for their new processors.
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