AMD AM4 Motherboards Spotted in Shipping

[WYP]

AMD AM4 Motherboards Spotted in Shipping, confirming DDR4 support and the availability of both CPU and APU AM4 products.

Read more on AMD's Bristol Ridge APUs and their AM4 platform.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Pretty impressive of them to get the TDP down by about 30% while still significantly raising clocks speeds on the GPU side as well as improving CPU performance from steamroller. I'd really like to see an article about how DDR3 and DDR4 differs with APUs with the improvements and etc

 

[tinytomlogan]

Pretty impressive of them to get the TDP down by about 30% while still significantly raising clocks speeds on the GPU side as well as improving CPU performance from steamroller. I'd really like to see an article about how DDR3 and DDR4 differs with APUs with the improvements and etc

APU's thrive on bandwidth so from previous experience Id say faster the better

 

[Kushiro]

Whats the fastest available to consumers right now. 3333?

 

[WYP]

Pretty impressive of them to get the TDP down by about 30% while still significantly raising clocks speeds on the GPU side as well as improving CPU performance from steamroller. I'd really like to see an article about how DDR3 and DDR4 differs with APUs with the improvements and etc

The problem is that right now it is an unknown, but having compared 1600MHz memory to 2400MHz DDR3 with Kaveri I can say that it will no doubt benefit the GPU side.

On the CPU side Steamroller/Kaveri didn't benefit too much from faster memory, but this new architecture might with the new memory controller.

One other thing to not is if this APU has the same color compression methods as AMD's Tonga it might have a lot better bandwidth efficiency as well as having the faster memory.

 

[NeverBackDown]

APU's thrive on bandwidth so from previous experience Id say faster the better

Yeah it'll be faster no doubt, more of just wondering how much faster. Don't know if it would be really comparable though since they seem to only support DDR4 and not DDR3 which means no direct comparisons.

The problem is that right now it is an unknown, but having compared 1600MHz memory to 2400MHz DDR3 with Kaveri I can say that it will no doubt benefit the GPU side.

On the CPU side Steamroller/Kaveri didn't benefit too much from faster memory, but this new architecture might with the new memory controller.

One other thing to not is if this APU has the same color compression methods as AMD's Tonga it might have a lot better bandwidth efficiency as well as having the faster memory.

It'll help greatly in areas where memory bandwidth is king. Which is mainly gaming applications in a common APU scenario. If it indeed supports the 3rd gen GCN(1.3) then it will support all the new color compression etc that Tonga did as Tonga was 1.2 iirc
I think DDR4 will make this more common in lower end systems because of the enormous benefits and hopefully takes back some of the i3 market so AMD can get some revenue into there empty pockets