AMD has announced its 2013 Elite A-series accelerated processing unit (APU) for desktops, codenamed Richland at Computex 2013.

Since its introduction in 2011, the APU quickly became the fastest growing category of processors for AMD, powering everything from the Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 to new generations of notebooks, tablets, desktops, low-power servers and embedded devices.

The new 2013 Elite A-series APUs combine the AMD Piledriver CPU architecture with AMD Radeon HD 8000 series graphics on the FM2 motherboard infrastructure. The ability to support existing A85X, A75 and A55 platforms as well as forward compatibility with FM2+ motherboards provides users the ability to buy now with the flexibility to upgrade as new platforms come to market. In addition, these APUs feature maximum clock speeds over 4GHz for next-generation compute workloads.

Utilizing the latest AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics, the Elite A-series combines the CPU and up to 384 Radeon parallel processing cores to offer up to 15% increased graphics performance over its predecessor, the AMD second-generation APU (Trinity), AMD noted.

By: DocMemory
Copyright © 2023 CST, Inc. All Rights Reserved