AMD Godavari APU Lineup Leaked – A10-8850K To Lead The Pack, 12 APUs Planned For Summer 2015

AMD’s upcoming Godavari APU lineup has been leaked by VR-Zone ahead of its launch in summer, this year. The new Godavari APU which are also known to be part of the Kaveri-Refresh platform which is aimed to re-fresh the current Kaveri APUs with the new 8000 series branding will be featured across 12 new processors utilizing the x86 Steamroller core and GCN graphics architecture.

AMD Godavari APU “Kaveri-Refresh” Lineup Leaked – A10-8850K Flagship APU

First of all, being simply known as the Kaveri-Refresh platform, Godavari will feature the same architectural enhancements as Kaveri with the same CPU and GPU cores. We are talking about x86 Steamroller and GCN here which have already been fused on the current AMD A-7000 Series offerings. Godavari will retain the maximum four x86 core and 512 stream processor design and will be available in several variants as a part to refresh the current A-Series lineup. AMD is going to use the latest 8000 series branding for the new chips and will stick to the FM2+ platform supporting DDR3 memory at 2133 MHz. The current motherboards will be able to support the new chips without any problems with new BIOS updates rolling out prior to launch.

As for performance and clock speeds, the clock speeds will obviously get a slight bump since that is what’s the refresh is all about. The chips will retain their TDPs. As for the performance, it will be anywhere from 5-15% better than the current Kaveri APUs due to better driver support and improved clock speeds. Other details are not known at the moment but AMD will have an official announcement made during the same time as 2015’s Computex event. Aside from Godavari, the main announcement coming from AMD this year will be the new AMD Radeon graphics cards which will deliver insanely huge performance increases over the current Radeon generation of cards.
In total, AMD is going to launch 12 new APUs, 10 of which are part of the A-Series family while two are part of the Athlon series family. The specifications of some chips are listed below while full specifications can be found in the table provided at the end of this article:

AMD A10-8850K APU:

The AMD A10-8850K is the flagship APU of the lineup featuring a 4 core and 4 thread design. The chip boasts a clock speed of 3.7 GHz base and 4.1 GHz boost while featuring an unlocked design for overclocking. The chip is featuring the Radeon R7 graphics core based off the Sea Islands GCN architecture that has 512 streaming cores and a clock speed of 856 MHz. The chip will feature 4 MB of L2 cache, 95W TDP and DDR3 memory support of up to 2133 MHz. It will feature a price close to the current generation A10-7850K APU at around $149 US and will likely get better performance and efficiency.

AMD A10-8750 APU:

The AMD A10-8750 features a 4 core and 4 thread design. The chip boasts a clock speed of 3.7 GHz base and 4.1 GHz boost however no unlocked design is featured for overclocking. The chip is featuring the Radeon R7 graphics core based off the Sea Islands GCN architecture that has 512 streaming cores and a clock speed of 800 MHz. The chip will feature 4 MB of L2 cache, 95W TDP and DDR3 memory support of up to 2133 MHz.

AMD A8-8650 APU:

The AMD A8-8650 features a 4 core and 4 thread design. The chip boasts a clock speed of 3.2 GHz base and 3.8 GHz boost however no unlocked design is featured for overclocking. The chip is featuring the Radeon R7 graphics core based off the Sea Islands GCN architecture that has 384 streaming cores and a clock speed of 760 MHz. The chip will feature 4 MB of L2 cache, 45/65W Configurable TDP and DDR3 memory support of up to 2133 MHz.

AKD A6-8550K APU:

The AMD A6-8550K features a 2 core and 2 thread design. The chip boasts a clock speed of 3.1 GHz base and 3.5 GHz boost while an unlocked design is featured for overclocking. The chip is featuring the Radeon R5 graphics core based off the Sea Islands GCN architecture that has 256streaming cores with a clock speed that is yet to be determined. The chip will feature 2 MB of L2 cache, 45/65W Configurable TDP and DDR3 memory support of up to 2133 MHz.

AMD Athlon X4 870K:

The Athlon X4 870K is the flagship part replacing the Athlon X4 860K with a quad core design that has clock speed of 3.5 GHz base and 3.7 GHz boost.. The chip has 4 MB of L2 cache, a 95W TDP and DDR3 memory support that are rated up to 2133 MHz. The price will be set around $79.99 US and is going to be an unlocked design to allow budget gamers a boost by overclocking.

AMD Godavari APU Lineup:

	CPU Archit	CPU Cores/Thre	CPU Clock Base/Boost	LLC Cache	Radeon Architecture	Stream Proc	GPU Clock Speed	TDP	DDR3 Memory
AMD A10-8850K	x86 Steamroller	2/4	3.7/4.1 GHz	4 MB	Radeon R7	512	856 MHz	95W	2133 MHz
AMD A10-Pro 8850B	x86 Steamroller	2/4	3.7/4.1 GHz	4 MB	Radeon R7	512	800 MHz	95W	2133 MHz
AMD A8-8650	x86 Steamroller	2/4	3.2/3.8 GHz	4 MB	Radeon R7	384	760 MHz	65W	2133 MHz
AMD A8-8650K	x86 Steamroller	2/4	3.2/3.5 GHz	4 MB	Radeon R7	384	760 MHz	95W	2133 MHz
AMD A10-8750	x86 Steamroller	2/4	3.0/3.5 GHz	4 MB	Radeon R7	512	TBD	65W	2133 MHz
AMD A6-8550K	x86 Steamroller	1/2	3.1/3.5 GHz	2 MB	Radeon R5	256	TBD	65W	2133 MHz
AMD A10 PRO-8750B	x86 Steamroller	2/4	3.0/3.5 GHz	4 MB	Radeon R7	512	TBD	65W	2133 MHz
AMD A8 PRO-8650B	x86 Steamroller	2/4	2.9/3.2 GHz	4 MB	Radeon R7	384	760 MHz	65W	2133 MHz
AMD A6 PRO-8550B	x86 Steamroller	1/2	3.1/3.5 GHz	2 MB	Radeon R5	256	TBD	65W	2133 MHz
AMD A4 PRO-8350B	x86 Steamroller	1/2	3.0/3.5 GHz	2 MB	Radeon R5	256	757 MHz		2133 MHz
AMD Athlon X4 870K	x86 Steamroller	2/4	3.5/3.7 GHz	2 MB	N/A	N/A	N/A	95W	2133 MHz
AMD Athlon X4 850	x86 Steamroller	2/4	2.9/3.2 GHz	2 MB	N/A	N/A	N/A	65W	2133 MHz

AMD A10-8850K Flagship 5th Generation APU:

Model	AMD A10-8850K ‘Godavari’	AMD A10-7850K ‘Kaveri’	AMD A10-6800K ‘Richland’	AMD A10-5800K ‘Trinity’
Cores	4/4	4/4	4/4	4/4
Turbo Core 3.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Base Clock	3.7 GHz	3.7 GHz	4.1 GHz	3.8 GHz
Turbo Clock	4.1 GHz	4.0 GHz	4.4 GHz	4.2 GHz
L2 Cache	4 MB L2	4 MB L2	4 MB L2	4 MB L2
Unlocked Design	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Graphics Core	GCN Radeon R7 Series	GCN Radeon R7 Series	HD 8670D	HD 7660D
GPU Cores	512 Cores	512 Cores	384 Cores	384 Cores
GPU Clock	856 MHz	720 MHz	844 MHz	800 MHz
TDP	95W	95W	100W	100W
Launch Date	Summer 2015	14th January 2014	4th June 2013	2nd October 2012