AMD Announces Availability “Trinity” Desktop APUs

Author: Cássio Lima Date: October 2, 2012 - 8:34 AM PST Category: CPU More Info: http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/press-release-2012oct2.aspx Today, AMD announced retail availability of its second generation AMD A-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) for desktop, codename “Trinity.” Trinity APUs use a brand new type of socket, dubbed FM2, which is incompatible[l1]  with the FM1 socket used by Llano APUs. Trinity APUs feature up to four cores, an integrated AMD Radeon HD 7000 GPU, a dual-channel DDR3-1866 MHz integrated memory controller, and are built using 32 nm manufacturing processes. In the table below, we’ve listed the models available along with their main specs, including suggested retail price. Model A10-5800K A10-5700 A8-5600K A8-5500 A6-5400K A4-5300 GPU HD 7660D HD 7660D HD 7560D HD 7560D HD 7540D HD 7480D TDP 100 W 65 W 100 W 65 W 65 W 65 W GPU Processors 384 384 256 256 192 128 GPU Clock 800 MHz 800 MHz 760 MHz 760 MHz 760 MHz 723 MHz CPU Cores 4 4 4 4 2 2 CPU Clock (Max Turbo/Base) 4.2/3.8 GHz 4.0/3.4 GHz 3.9/3.6 GHz 3.7/3.2 GHz 3.8/3.6 GHz 3.6/3.4 GHz Total Cache 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 4 MB 1 MB 1 MB Max DDR3 1866 1866 1866 1866 1866 1600 AMD Turbo CORE 3.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unlocked Yes No Yes No Yes No Suggested Retail Price USD 122  USD 122  USD 101  USD 101  USD 67 USD 53  Three different chipset options are available on motherboards with the FM2 socket: AMD A55, A75 and A85X. Several manufacturers have launched motherboards developed to support the latest Trinity family of APUs from AMD, as you can see below. ASRock ASUS ECS Biostar Gigabyte MSI Sapphire Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark Article | Comments (0)

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