{"id":89149,"date":"2016-04-13T09:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T07:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=89149"},"modified":"2016-04-13T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:20:46","slug":"amd-announce-next-generation-of-apus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89149-amd-announce-next-generation-of-apus","title":{"rendered":"AMD announce next-generation of APUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/en-us\/products\/processors\/laptop-processors#\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;pre-announced&#8221;<\/a> its new line of laptop APU&#8217;s &#8211; Bristol Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>The previous Carrizo APU&#8217;s were launched in June 2015. Carrizo was based on the Bulldozer module design and focused on notebooks in a 15-35W power range.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol Ridge&#8217;s main advantage over Carrizo is the introduction of a new DDR4 memory controller, allowing for the use of DDR4 RAM and equating to a 10% increase in CPU performance. This will equate to a 50% increase in 2014&#8217;s popular Kaveri architecture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We know that consumers want more for their money than ever before \u2013 sharper graphics, faster performance, and longer battery life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have focused on working with key OEM partners to develop outstanding computing platforms that will fully take advantage of the powerful 7th generation AMD APUs,&#8221; said Jim Anderson, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics Business Group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/show\/10223\/amd-bristol-ridge-in-notebooks\" target=\"_blank\">AMD<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bristol Ridge APUs are comprised of four Bulldozer CPU cores and as many as eight GPU cores.<\/p>\n<p>AMD is waiting for HP to officially debut the new architecture in its <a href=\"http:\/\/store.hp.com\/us\/en\/pdp\/Laptops\/hp-envy-x360---15t-touch-laptop-l8s90av-1\" target=\"_blank\">HP Envy x360<\/a> notebook in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>AMD is also expected to launch its new <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/49085-AMD-said-to-be-working-on-Zen-APU-with-HBM\" target=\"_blank\">Zen<\/a> desktop CPUs later this year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/88885-the-biggest-movie-releases-this-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Quantum Break on PC is broken\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88851-quantum-break-on-pc-is-broken.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Quantum Break on PC is broken<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Black villain in Uncharted 4 speaks in a terrible Afrikaans accent\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88933-black-villain-in-uncharted-4-speaks-in-a-terrible-afrikaans-accent.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Black villain in Uncharted 4 speaks in a terrible Afrikaans accent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has &#8220;pre-announced&#8221; its new line of laptop APU&#8217;s &#8211; Bristol Ridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":89155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[31,1051,9911,18017,18015],"class_list":["post-89149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-active","tag-amd","tag-apu","tag-bristol-ridge","tag-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89223,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89149\/revisions\/89223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}