AMD Talks Up The Carrizo APU At ISSCC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Talks Up The Carrizo APU At ISSCC

AMD has released more details on their forthcoming "Carrizo" APUs from the IEEE International Solid-State CIrcuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Carrizo-More-Details

[oleid]

Elder kernels will probably be supported by building an out-of-tree module, as for the catalyst or nvidia driver...

[boffo]

What HSA feature does Kaveri miss that Carrizo has?

[duby229]

I beleive it's that Carrizo has a southbridge integrated on the CPU die.

I am curious about the socket it might use, or if it's a BGA.

[mayankleoboy1]

What HSA feature does Kaveri miss that Carrizo has?

With regards the difference between HSA Ready and Compliant, I asked AMD what made Kaveri different in that regard. The answer was straightforward enough: Carrizo is able to perform GPU context switching, allowing a GPU state-save and state-restore, something Kaveri is unable to do and offering a solid hint that Carrizo's GPU is based on AMD's GCN 1.2 architecture.

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8995/a...avator-details

[Lynxeye]

What HSA feature does Kaveri miss that Carrizo has?

Full preemption of GPU tasks.

[boffo]

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8995/a...avator-details

Thank you.

[Dukenukemx]

Isn't the Carrizo chips going to be on laptops only for a while? Cause that would suck.

[pipe13]

Yeah. Just like Broadwell is only available on laptops for a while. Highest margin, lower core-count, and its where today's demand is.

[bridgman]

I think the exact statement is that there won't be a socketed part at launch (AFAIK that is because a new socket & mobo would be required due to increased integration) but I imagine it will show up in more than just laptops anyways.