Posted on Monday, September 16 2013 @ 18:06 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
CPU World
reports AMD's 45W Richland desktop APUs have shown up for pre-order in the US. Based on the Piledriver architecture, these quad-core chips feature 4MB L2 cache and Radeon HD 8000 series integrated graphic. The 3.1GHz A7-6500T costs $108.59 while the 3.5GHz A10-6700T goes for $155.91.
AMD A8-6500T and A10-6700T Accelerated Units have 4 CPU cores, 4 MB L2 cache, along with HD 8550D and HD 8650D graphics. The 6500T operates at 2.1 GHz, and up to 3.1 GHz when the Turbo feature is active. The 6700T runs at 2.5 GHz, and has the maximum Turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. Both chips have GPUs clocked at 720 MHz. The A8-6500T and A10-6700T processors are expected to support all Piledriver technologies, including AES, AVX and FMA3 instructions. The APUs have 45 Watt TDP, and they are compatible with socket FM2.
