AMD's Carrizo Launches: New Laptops In The Weeks Ahead

AMD launched Carrizo today from Computex Taipei and with the rollout they've unveiled the rest of the details on the new A-Series APU design.

Some new details revealed by AMD about Carrizo include the Excavator CPU cores having a new and larger L1 data cache design, AVX2 / MOVBE / SMEP / BMI1 / BMI2 instruction support, new low-power modes, low-power video playback support, H.265 / HEVC video decode support (no word about VP9), and other power-related enhancements.

When it comes to the Radeon GCN GPU on Carrizo there's eight GCN cores, DirectX 12 Level 12 support, better tessellation performance, updated ISA, full HSA acceleration support, etc.

Carrizo will be packing a lot of performance for low-power laptop designs beginning late June or early July. Stay tuned for more details and benchmarks to come once I get my hands on an AMD Carrizo laptop in the weeks ahead. You can learn more about AMD's new APUs via the new AMD.com product page.