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Intel Debuts New 5th Generation Mobile Processors

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015 Ronnie Bulaong Leave a comment

Along with the official announcement of Thunderbolt 3, Intel also debuted the last batch of mobile processors under the Broadwell lineup which consists of three new Intel Core i7 processors and a dual-core Intel Core i5 chip.

The announcement of these new Broadwell-H processors came five months after Intel announced the Broadwell-U earlier this year.

There are actually five (5) processors that were launched during the event, but we excluded the Intel Core i7-5700HQ from our list because it had already made its way to some high-end notebooks prior to the announcement.

Broadwell lineup

All of the newly-launched Broadwell mobile processors are equipped with an Intel Iris Pro 6200 iGPU, albeit with varying base frequency. These new 5th Gen SKUs also share the same TDP which is rated at 47W, noticeably higher than any of the mobile processor that Intel launched back in January.

Lastly, all of these new chips (excluding the i7-5700HQ) are also embedded with an Intel Crystal Well (Crystalwell), a 128MB embedded RAM (eDRAM) that is referred to by the chipmaker as L4 Cache that is accessible by both the CPU and the GPU.

Intel expects notebook PCs with the new 5th Generation Intel Core mobile processors to start popping out in the next month or two.

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AMD Intros New Carrizo APUs

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015 Ronnie Bulaong Leave a comment

Following the announcement of its new flagship desktop APU, AMD has launched three (3) processors under the Carrizo family namely the FX-8800P, A10-7800P and A8-8600P.

amd carrizo

AMD has improved on all aspects of their new Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) from the previous generation, which is, in large part, credited to the use of new “Excavator” processing cores and 3rd Generation Graphics Next Core 1.2 (GCN 1.2) architecture.

The Excavator cores and GCN 1.2, along with other new improvements, allow the AMD 6th Generation A-series processors to deliver smoother gaming experience which is claimed to be at par with the A10 Kaveri desktop APUs, but with significantly power consumption.

avfs

Speaking of power consumption, AMD boasts that the each of the 4 Excavator cores found on the new Carrizo APUs are features ten (10) Automatic Voltage/Frequency Sensors (AVFS) that monitor the core’s temperature and the amount of instructions being handled at a certain time. It then regulates the amount of power that needs to be fed to the processor to handle the instruction set which, in theory, should result to better battery life without sacrificing performance.

In addition to ten (10) AVFS, the processing cores of the new Carrizo APUs are equipped with ten (10) power planes. Together with the S0i3 power state, these power planes can achieve the same power level of “Standby” mode, but with the benefit of being able to wake the system in under a second like in Sleep mode.

uvd 6

AMD has also made notable strides in the video decoding and playback departments which allow Carrizo APUs to handle videos with better efficiency and lesser power draw. This is credited to the integration of Unified Video Decoder 6 (UVD 6) which also enables the new laptop APUs to handle 4K contents along with other formats listed above.

carrizo apus

The company is eyeing the mainstream laptop market with the new Carrizo APUs, particularly notebook PCs in the $400 – $700 range. During the launch, AMD named OEM partners like Asus, Dell and HP that are expected to launch the first wave of Carrizo-powered notebooks starting this month.

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AMD A10-7870K Now Official

June 1, 2015June 1, 2015 Ronnie Bulaong Leave a comment

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has launched the latest addition to its Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) lineup – the AMD A10-7870K.

The new processor is slated to be the refresh of the company’s previous APU flagship, the A10-7850K which we reviewed last year. It boasts the same 12 compute core setup (4 CPU + 8 GPU) of its predecessor but receives nominal increase in clock speed on both the CPU (from 3.8GHz base to 3.9 / from 4.0GHz boost to 4.1GHz) and GPU (up by 20% from 720MHz to 866MHz).

AMD A10-7870K specs:
Microarchitecture: Steamroller
Processor Family: Godavari
FM2+ Socket
A88X, A78 & A55 Chipset
3.9GHz Base Core Clock, 4.1GHz Turbo Frequency
Quad-core processor with four (4) threads
L1 Cache:
* 2 x 96 KB 3-way set associative shared instruction caches
* 4 x 16 KB 4-way set associative data caches
L2 Cache: 2 x 2 MB 16-way set associative shared caches
Support for dual-channel 2133MHz memory modules
Up to 2400MHz w/ AMP
Integrated R7 Series GPU, 866MHz Base Frequency
512 Shader Cores, supports up to 4 displays
95W TDP
Support for DirectX 11.2, DirectX 12 and Mantle APIs
HAS, AMD TrueAudio, VCE 2.0 & UVD 4.0

The new AMD A10-7870K is now available and currently retails for USD137.

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Mediatek intros deca-core Helio X20 chip

May 13, 2015May 13, 2015 Abe Olandres Leave a comment

Yes, you read that right. Meditek has a 10-core processor called the Helio X20.

The Helio X20 is composed of four (4) ARM Cortex A53 running at 1.4GHz (for power efficiency), another set of four ARM Cortex A53 running at 2.0GHz (for balance of power and performance) and two (2) ARM Cortex A72 (for extreme performance).