Gallery: AMD's new high-performance, energy-efficient 'Carrizo' APU
AMD's next-generation A-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) for laptops and low-power desktops, codenamed "Carrizo", will simultaneously ramp up energy efficiency and boost performance.
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"Carrizo" will be an x86 APU built using 28-nanometer architecture and will, according to AMD, be optimized for both power and area efficiency. It is expected to make an appearance inside notebooks and all-in-one PCs towards mid-year, but AMD has unveiled some details about the new chip at International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
- 29 percent more transistors in nearly the same die size as its predecessor, the "Kaveri"
- New "Excavator" x86 cores provide an uplift in instructions-per-clock at 40 percent less power
- New Radeon GPU cores with dedicated power supply
- Dedicated, on-chip H.265 video decode
- Double digit percentage increases in both performance and battery life
- Integrated Southbridge for the first time on an AMD high-performance APU
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