AMD Leaks Godavari A10-8850K and 11 Other APUs

AMD's accelerated processing units, or APUs for short, are currently in the Kaveri generation, but there is always a new range in the works, and we finally know what to call the next one other than Kaveri Refresh: Godavari.

That's not all that we can share, however. Thanks to a pretty blatant leak that happened through VR-Zone, we know what the full product line will look like.

There will be twelve processors in the Godavari collection, spread across the A10, A8, A1 and Athlon series.

We are operating on the assumption that AMD will perform some refinements or small changes to the architecture, but we have no details on that.

However, the chips will definitely carry a frequency advantage, since processor refresh lineups are all about speed bumps. To hold the fort until a new architecture arrives and all that.

The general traits of the Godavari APU/CPU series

The twelve processors will all use Steamroller x85 CPU cores and Radeon HD 7000 series graphics based on the GCN architecture (Graphics Core-Next).

There will be up to four x86 cores to be more specific, along with up to 512 stream processors per integrated graphics processing unit.

The socket compatible with them will continue to be FM2+, and current motherboards will handle the chips just fine. The memory controller is the same as well, 2,133 MHz DDR3-ready. Ten of the twelve APUs will be part of the A-Series, while the other two will be Athlon processors.

The table below has all the specs, but we took the liberty of listing some of the more relevant ones. We'll start at the bottom and work our way up.

AMD Athlon X4 870K

This chip (Athlon are actually CPUs, not APUs, so they lack GPUs) will replace the X4 860K as the flagship of the series and will feature 4 cores (3.5 GHz base, 3.7 GHz boost clock), 4 MB L2 cache, 95W TDP and a price of $80 / €70.51. Interestingly, it will have an unlocked multiplier, enabling overclocking despite the price.

AMD A6-8550K

A single-threaded dual-core, it runs at 3.1 GHz / 3.5 GHz, uses Radeon R5 graphics (256 Sea Islands cores), 2 MB L2 cache, and 45/65W Configurable TDP.

AMD A8-8650 APU

A quad-core, single-threaded chip, it will run at 3.2 GHz / 3.8 GHz on the same configurable TDP as above. It also gets 4 MB L2 cache and 760 MHz Radeon R7 GPU with 384 Sea Islands GCN cores.

AMD A10-8850K APU

As the best in the series, it uses 4 cores, 4 threads, 3.7 GHz / 4.1 GHz clocks, Radeon R7 Sea Islands graphics (512 streaming cores, 856 MHz), 4 MB L2 cache and 95W TDP. It will have a price of $149 / €132.