AMD - Piledriver chitchat

[HalloweenJack]

they could go the MS route with eSRAM and DDR3

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The PS4 uses stacked GDDR5,although the costs fo stacking might be high for a budget chip like the A10,and I think using eSRAM might not be cheap either.

OTH,with the unified memory architecture of Kaveri,I wonder if AMD CPUs will be able to use DDR3 RAM more efficiently and have less issues mixing and matching RAM types.

Edit!!

http://blogs.nvidia.com/2013/05/qa-w...-with-haswell/

Interestingly according to Nvidia,OEMs find GT3e expensive and power hungry. The former was already confirmed by CD at SA. I wonder if the TR power consumption results,are actually closer to the truth,as CPU only power consumption does not appear to be that low compared to desktop Haswell Core i7 CPUs.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

That AMD trailer had HSA mentioned in it!!

It also says 4.4GHZ??

Richland is HSA enabled??

Is this what CD was talking about:

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/05/31/a...-a-big-secret/

Edit!!

High end AIO with HD8970M pictured:

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/pcs/1...gaming-monster

[inf64]

CD's mysterious article (we can't read ) is about something related to power consumption
Check his title of the article:

AMD’s Richland is hiding a big secret
The mystery behind the power savings is finally solved

As can be seen he is talking about either more advanced power management vs Trinity or the RCM which is finally enabled in these parts .

[HalloweenJack]

ooooh a baby ARM core??

[watercooled]

I was thinking along those lines, but I believe AMD CPUs have had (possibly unused) ARM cores (A5 IIRC) on-die since Llano/Trinity. Maybe some better performing ARM-based power controller?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Still HSA mentioned in an AMD marketing video for Richland?

[inf64]

Sure HSA works on Richland and Trinity. HSA is not requiring all the abilities of Kaveri (unified address space) in order to work. Kaveri will just be better at it, that's all. Excavator will bring even tighter integration and more features so HSA will work seamlessly on software/hardware that has full feature set.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Kabini mini-ITX motherboards spotted:

http://www.techpowerup.com/live/imag...13/ecs_031.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/live/imag...13/ecs_032.jpg

Edit!!

Some performance numbers for the Haswell Ultrabook IGPs:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7021/i...e-haswell-skus

[watercooled]

I've just realised why 'Unified System Architecture' might have been a poor choice of branding, the acronym could cause some confusion.

Edit: I'm hoping PC Engines come out with that rumoured ALIX upgrade some time soon! Last I heard it's meant to use some embedded Bobcat CPU, but maybe they were waiting on Jaguar for a SoC solution?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I've just realised why 'Unified System Architecture' might have been a poor choice of branding, the acronym could cause some confusion.

AMD going for the patriotic angle in the US??

Edit!!

Bus powered HD7850 2GB is shown:

http://www.techpowerup.com/185003/tr...n-hd-7850.html

[DanceswithUnix]

Kabini mini-ITX motherboards spotted:

http://www.techpowerup.com/live/imag...13/ecs_031.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/live/imag...13/ecs_032.jpg

Edit!!

Some performance numbers for the Haswell Ultrabook IGPs:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7021/i...e-haswell-skus

The card next to that Kabini motherboard says dual channel DDR3. Have they dropped the old single channel layout?

[watercooled]

Also, just spotted a reference to dual-channel memory in those pictures?

SNAP!

[watercooled]

Interesting video about Haswell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdLpzwSDFo

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Unless the A6-5200 uses dual channel memory unlike the A6-5000 which might explain the larger TDP increase relative to the clockspeed increase?? OTH,it is more likely a typo I suspect.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Interesting video about Haswell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdLpzwSDFo

So,basically it will be hard to determine what actual stable overclocks you get with Haswell??