AMD officially debuts Carrizo-L laptop APUs, cuts A-series pricing

Posted on Thursday, May 07 2015 @ 14:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
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AMD announced it's rolling out its Carrizo-L APUs for the laptop market. To be marketed as the AMD 7000 series APUs, these chips are available immediately in Greater China and will soon be available in the rest of the world.
New AMD 7000 Series APUs: Formerly codenamed “Carrizo-L” and part of the “Carrizo” platform in the 2015 AMD Mobile APU family roadmap, the mainstream system-on-a-chip (SoC) 7000 Series APUs deliver innovative computing to improve how you work, play and relax, all at an unbelievable value. Now available in Greater China and rolling out globally, these APUs combine a power-efficient CPU, an advanced GPU, an AMD Secure Processor and system I/O on a single energy efficient chip to prolong battery life and enable uninterrupted video streaming. Notebooks and All-in-Ones featuring new AMD 7000 Series processors enable best-in-class gaming and great entertainment. With support for Microsoft® DirectX® 12 and Microsoft’s upcoming Windows® 10 operating system, AMD 7000 Series APUs deliver the experiences consumers expect plus security protection built into the processor.
Model TDP Max DDR3 CPU Cores CPU Clock (Max/Base) L2 Cache
AMD A8-7410 Quad-Core APU with AMD Radeon™ R5 Graphics 12-25W 1866 MHz 4 Up to 2.5GHz 2MB
AMD A6-7310 Quad-Core APU with AMD Radeon™ R4 Graphics 12-25W 1600 MHz 4 Up to 2.4 GHz 2MB
AMD A4-7210 Quad-Core APU with AMD Radeon™ R3 Graphics 12-25W 1600 MHz 4 Up to 2.2 GHz 2MB
AMD E2-7110 APU with AMD Radeon™ Graphics 12-15W 1600 MHz 4 Up to 1.8 GHz 2MB
AMD E1-7010 APU with AMD Radeon™ Graphics 10W 1333 MHz 2 Up to 1.5 GHz 1MB


AMD also announced its current A-series desktop APUs will receive a price cut on May 10. Some of the price cuts are pretty steep, the A10-7850K for instance currently retails for $149.99 but will drop to $127 on May 10.
AMD A-Series Desktop APU update – Starting May 10, AMD’s A-Series desktop APU products will be available at new price points and deliver new features and benefits to end users than ever before. The AMD A-Series Desktop APUs now offer Windows® 10 readiness including DirectX® 12 Multiengine and Multiadapter features. Combined with existing support for AMD FreeSync™, AMD Mantle, HSA features heterogeneous queuing (hQ) and heterogeneous uniform memory access (hUMA) as enabled by OpenCL™ 2.0 applications, and OpenGL 4.4, AMD A-Series APUs stand ready to increase value to end users for popular gaming titles and mainstream productivity applications today and tomorrow.
A-Series APU Model Processor Turbo Frequency Processor Graphics Compute Cores TDP/ Configurable TDP Supported Features Suggested Etail Price ($USD)
A10-7850K 4.0GHz RADEON™ R7

12

(4CPU + 8GPU)

95W / 65W / 45W FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features $127
A10-7800 3.9GHz RADEON™ R7

12

(4CPU + 8GPU)

65W / 45W Optimized FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features $127
A10-7700K 3.8GHz RADEON™ R7

10

(4CPU + 6GPU)

95W FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features $117
A8-7650K 3.8GHz RADEON™ R7

10

(4CPU + 6GPU)

95W FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features $95
A8-7600 3.8GHz RADEON™ R7

10

(4CPU + 6GPU)

65W/ 45W Optimized FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features $85
A6-7400K 3.9GHz RADEON™ R5

6

(2CPU + 4GPU)

65W/ 45W Optimized FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features $60
A4-7300 4.0GHz RADEON™ HD-8470D N/A 65W Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 1.2 $42


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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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