AMD’s Richland APU prices have been leaked along with the release date by Chiploco. According to the details, AMD would release their complete Richland APU lineup on 4th June 2013 and would bring a new and improved Piledriver core architecture along with Radeon HD 8000 graphics core.

AMD Richland APU Prices Leaked – Launch Confirmed On 4th June

AMD Richland APUs would be the company’s third generation of accelerated processing units fused with a refined version of the current x86 Piledriver architecture. Richland would be using upto four Piledriver modules with enhanced clock speeds aimed to deliver much better performance without increasing the power consumption.

AMD Richland APUs would be available in both 65W and 100W models, would also feature AMD’s HD 8000 integrated graphic processors based on the VLIW4 core. The APUs would come with native support for DDR3-2133 MHz memory and would aim to deliver 20 – 40% average GPU performance increase over Trinity through faster clock speeds as seen through the benchmarks exposed here. The AMD Richland APU lineup can be seen listed below along with their respective prices :

MSI has silently launched the latest AMD Radeon HD 7730 graphics card which features the graphics core next architecture. It features the Cape Verde architecture and is a cut down version of the Radeon HD 7750.

AMD Radeon HD 7730 Silently Launched by MSI

While it was already benchmarked last month, the specifications were not clear. Now we know that the Radeon HD 7730 features a Cape Verde core with 512 stream processors 32 TMUs and 16 ROPs while coming with only 1 GB of GDDR5 memory which runs across a 128-bit interface. The core is clocked at 800 MHz while the memory operates at 1125 MHz. The HD 7730 is powered through the PCI-e x16 connector that supplies 75W of power to the GPU. The GPU has a rated TDP of only 50W.

The MSI HD 7730 comes with a custom cooler featuring propeller blade design that offers superior cooling. It is not known whether the GPU is an official product from AMD or built specifically by AIB partners like the TUL made HD 7990 and HD 7870 XT Joker. Display outputs include a DVI, HDMI and display port. The AMD Radeon HD 7730 would cost $64.99 – $79.99 at launch.

AMD has added a new product to their “Solar System” series of mobile graphic cards, the Radeon HD 8970M. Powered by the high performance GCN core architecture that delivers outstanding visuals to gamers.

AMD Radeon HD 8970M “Neptune” Mobile GPU Unleashed

The Radeon HD 8970M is codenamed “Neptune” which represents it being part of AMD’s solar system series. AMD Radeon HD 8970M has similar specifications as the Radeon HD 7970M which include 1280 SPs enabled on the Pitcairn core clocked at 850 MHz while the GPU also brings new GPU boost technology which allows the core to run upto 900 MHz. The chip has a peak single precision compute performance of 2.304 TFlops and 144 GFlops of double precision computing power. It ships with 2-4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1200 MHz and running across a 256-bit bus interface.

It can be noted from the performance slides that the Radeon HD 8970M is much faster than the GeForce GTX 680M solution from NVIDIA. AMD didn’t seem to put the chip against the faster GTX 680MX, not to mention the upcoming GeForce GTX 780M that starts shipping from next month, benchmarks can be seen here. MSI GX70 notebooks would be among the first to make use of the new Radeon HD 8970M graphics chip and can already been seen detailed here. The HD 8970M comes with AMD’s Enduro technology built specifically for mobile GPUs so that they can conserve power when the system doesn’t needs to load GPU intensive tasks. Compute is a main focus for AMD these days and we can already see them showcasing TressFX benchmark results in the slides.

AMD’s Volcanic Islands graphic cards have been a hot topic since last week when it was revealed that the next generation GPU architecture could be headed for launch as early as Q4 2013. Today, Chiphell forum members have leaked what is supposed to be a architecture of the upcoming “Hawaii” GPU which is based on a 20 nano meter process.

AMD 20nm Volcanic Islands “Hawaii” Architecture Leaked?

The architecture in question is from the flagship 20nm Volcanic Islands chip “Hawaii” featuring 4096 stream processors. That’s almost double to what we get in today’s flagship Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition GPU. AMD hasn’t taken such a big leap since Radeon HD 5870 which double the stream processor count to 1600 compared to 800 SPs on the Radeon HD 4870. The switch from AMD’s VLIW4 (HD 6000 series) to GCN 1.0/1.1 (HD 7000) was more of a die shrink from 40nm to 28nm, but if this architecture shot holds any truth then AMD would not only be shrinking the die down to 20nm but also bring radical changes to the whole architecture.

Last year, a report revealed that AMD’s Volcanic Islands series would be the first to make use of a 20nm process and would arrive sometime in 2014. However, in a recent interview with AMD’s Jim Keller and Chekib Akrout, Rage3d has revealed that the Volcanic Islands GPUs would launch in 2013.

AMD 20nm Volcanic Islands GPUs in 2013?

“The next generation of graphics cards – Volcanic Islands – is coming this year and shaping up nicely. When you name products after places, it leads to interesting thoughts about where to hold events surrounding that namesake product. Typically places that are cheap to get travel to internationally for a worldwide congregation are preferred, so I’m off to renew my passport on the off chance I’m headed to Reykjavik later this summer. But I sure as hell wouldn’t complain about being sent to Honolulu, either.” Rage3D

This could be huge news if true for AMD fans and could possibly provide a hint at the late launch of the much anticipated Radeon HD 8000 series GPUs. It was hinted by various techsites that the launch wasn’t planned to be late but it was delayed instead. The new VI (Volcanic Islands) GPU’s would be manufactured on a 20nm Gate-Last process through either TSMC or Common Platform Alliance.

Update: While this news is not confirmed by AMD yet, Sweclockers reports that Volcanic Islands could be coming in the last quarter and feature the Hawaii Core that replaces Tahiti. The Volcanic Islands architecture although not confirmed could stick to 28nm. Two additional and possible codenames have been hinted as Reychavik and Honolulu. (Both are active volcanoes) 

AMD has added two new products to its FX processors lineup – the FX-6350 and FX-4350. In addition to the launch, CPU-World has revealed that AMD would also be giving price-cuts to its current FX processors and desktop Trinity APUs.

AMD Launches New FX Processors – Gives Price-Cuts to Current Desktop Lineup

The two new FX processors were previously limited to OEM PC manufacturer’s and only now have they arrived to PC consumers. Both FX processors are built on the 32nm Piledriver core architecture that brings 10-15% enhance performance at a sub-$150 price range. Both parts are compatible with the AM3+ socket motherboards making use of the 990FX chipset.

Starting with the FX-6350 which is Hexa-core processor featuring a core clock of 3.90 GHz and Turbo’s all the way upto 4.2 GHz. It comes packed with 8 MB L3 and 6 MB L2 cache and has a TDP of 125W. The processor costs a nominal $132 US. Similarly, the FX-4350 is a Quad-core processor with a base clock of 4.20 GHz and 4.30 GHz in Turbo mode. It comes packed with 8 MB of L3 cache and 4 MB of L2 cache and again features a 125W TDP. The CPU costs $122 US. Both CPUs feature the latest instruction set which includes AVX, AES-NI, SSE4.2, SSE4.1, FMA2, and XOP.

AMD FX Processors Specifications:

AMD’s low power Kabini and Temash SOCs are already shipping to OEM manufacture’s, the next generation chips bring improved architecture and graphics power to drive all day computing needs. An AMD Temash A6-1450 chip has been spotted in ACER’s upcoming Aspire V5-122P-0643 notebook.

AMD Temash A6-1450 Based ACER Aspire Notebook Spotted

The AMD Temash A6-1450 SOC features a Quad core design ramping up the clock speed to 1 GHz in stock and 1.4 GHz in Turbo mode. Based on the latest 28nm Jaguar core architecture, the chip features improved performance per watt compared to the Bobcat based Brazos 2.0 processors. The chip comes with 2 MB of L2 cache and has a 4-6 Watt TDP which is pretty impressive for the new architecture by AMD. In addition to the CPU, the graphics part is based on the latest HD 8280 iGPU that is clocked at 300 (idle) and 500 MHz (load) clock frequencies. The graphics make use of AMD’s NUMA (Non-Uniform memory access) architecture and the notebook is equipped with a 2 GB DDR3 memory.

AMD seems to be preparing a new graphics card which would be known as the Radeon HD 7730. Toppc from Coolaler forums has leaked the pictures and benchmarks of the Radeon HD 7730 from AIB partner MSI that makes use of propeller blade technology.

AMD Radeon HD 7730 – A New Entry Level GPU With GCN Core?

Little is known about the specifications on the new AMD Radeon HD 7730 GPU since the GPU-z isn’t compatible at  the moment with the card itself. However some details such as clock speeds and memory are available. The GPU is clocked at 800 MHz core clock and 1125 MHz memory clock. It probably features a 1 GB GDDR5 memory that operates along a 128-bit bus churning out 72 GB/s bandiwdth. The core is not yet known if its based on a cut down version of the Bonaire XT chip fused on AMD’s Radeon HD 7790 or a cut down Cape Verde chip.

 * = Predicted Specs

Today, AMD  would officially announce their latest Radeon HD 7990 Dual-Chip graphics card codenamed “Malta” which combines two Tahiti cores to offer blazing fast gaming performance. Announced almost a year ago, the Radeon 7990 was previously codenamed “New Zealand” and it did arrive however only in custom built boards by AIB partners of AMD.

AMD Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” – Retaking the Performance Crown

A year later, AMD has finally launched their Radeon HD 7990, featuring dual Tahiti XT (HD 7970) cores featuring a total of 8.6 Billion transistors, 4096 Stream processors, 2 Prim /Clock , 256 Texture mapping units and 64 Raster operating units. The Tahiti XT core is clocked at 1000 MHz or 1 GHz. The card features an impressive 6GB GDDR5 memory that operates along a 384-bit x 2 memory interface and is clocked at 6.0 GB/s effective frequency. The memory pump outs an impressive 576.0 GB/s bandwidth. The Radeon 7990 has a peak compute performance of 8.2 TFlops.

AMD’s Radeon HD 7990 is assembled using a dual-slot cooling solution which features triple fans etched on the shroud. These 92mm fans are part of the turbine cooling design which provides enhanced cooling performance to the internal vapor chamber heatsinks equipped on each core and fused together using copper heatpipes. Power is supplied through Dual 8-Pin connectors, a massive improvement over the Triple 8-Pin connectors over the custom boards from AIB partners which would pit the rated TDP around 375W. Even with such an improvement, the card barely delivers the same amount of efficiency as its competitor – the GeForce GTX 690. NVIDIA’s Kepler GK104 architecture has the upper hand in this case while the Radeon HD 7990 trumps it in pure computing performance

AMD launched their Never Settle bundle as a part of their “Gaming Evolved” initiative last year and since then has seen some major updates. The most major updates were the recently released “Never Settle” and “Never Settle: Reloaded” bundles which offered AMD GPU buyers with a wide range of game promotions depending on the model of the card they bought.

AMD didn’t only stop at bundling latest games with their Radeon HD 7000 series but like their rival NVIDIA, released a new range of graphical features such as the highly praised “Tress FX” effect which used OpenCL to render Lara Croft’s hair more realistic with accurate physics in her latest adventurer’s in Tomb Raider, the game was also bundled with AMD GPUs. The TressFX’s OpenCL rendering is sometimes called as AMD’s answer to PhysX from NVIDIA.

During the GDC 2013 announcement of Battlefield 4, it was revealed that AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 7990 was the graphic card running the 17 minutes of gameplay of the game and that too in 4K resolution downscaled to 1080P. Later on, it was reported that AMD might possibly be bundling the card with DICE’s Battlefield 4 game and a further AMD Never Settle bundle was being planned for launch that would be including Watch Dogs and a few other “yet to be announced” PC titles.

AMD Never Settle Gets Better than Ever With Battlefield 4, Watch Dogs and More

The folks over at TechReport forums seem to have found a confidential image of what seems to be a roadmap of AMD Never Settle bundle and would be including eight of the latest upcoming titles to spice up the value of AMD GPUs in 2013. These include some of the major blockbuster titles of 2013 such as Battlefield 4, Grid 2, Watch Dogs and Company of Heroes 2 which without a doubt are the most hyped around games of this year. The titles are listed below: