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As earlier this month AMD announced the AM1 Platform, a platform designed to house AMD's low power Kabini APUs.
Coming in dual or quad core configurations, with a TDP of a miniscule 25W, Kabini is of-course intended for low powered systems like HTPCs and home servers.
AMD plan on releasing Kabini to American stores on April 9th with two quad core models, the Athlon 5150 and the Athlon 5350 which are clocked at 1.6 and 2.05 GHz respectively and contain a HD 8400 GPU which has 128 cores clocked at 600MHz.
Above is a picture comparing a Kaveri APU (right) and a Kabini APU (left), as you can clearly see the new Kabini APU is smaller and has a different pin layout than FM2/FM2+ APU.
With such a low small size and TDP, it is unsurprising that Kabini uses an equally small stock cooler (shown below). With such a small and different mounting mechanism it will be unlikely to see any non-stock cooling for these APUs at launch, not that it will be required.
The Athlon 5150 and 5350 are set to hit the shelves at $50 and $60 respectively, Kabini will be great CPU for small sized, low cost computing.
What do you guys think of Kabini, can any of you think of any interesting uses for this cheap, low powered APU? Please comment below.
UPDATE- More info on the Sempron variants
The sempron variants will be called the 3850 and 2650 and will be a quad core clocked at 1.3GHz and a dual core clocked at 1.45Ghz respectively and have a TDP of 25W.
Both Semprons will contain the same 128 GCN radeon cores but operate at a reduced frequency of 450MHz and 400MHz and cost around $40 and $36 respectively.
Source - cpu-world
Coming in dual or quad core configurations, with a TDP of a miniscule 25W, Kabini is of-course intended for low powered systems like HTPCs and home servers.
AMD plan on releasing Kabini to American stores on April 9th with two quad core models, the Athlon 5150 and the Athlon 5350 which are clocked at 1.6 and 2.05 GHz respectively and contain a HD 8400 GPU which has 128 cores clocked at 600MHz.
Above is a picture comparing a Kaveri APU (right) and a Kabini APU (left), as you can clearly see the new Kabini APU is smaller and has a different pin layout than FM2/FM2+ APU.
With such a low small size and TDP, it is unsurprising that Kabini uses an equally small stock cooler (shown below). With such a small and different mounting mechanism it will be unlikely to see any non-stock cooling for these APUs at launch, not that it will be required.
The Athlon 5150 and 5350 are set to hit the shelves at $50 and $60 respectively, Kabini will be great CPU for small sized, low cost computing.
What do you guys think of Kabini, can any of you think of any interesting uses for this cheap, low powered APU? Please comment below.
UPDATE- More info on the Sempron variants
The sempron variants will be called the 3850 and 2650 and will be a quad core clocked at 1.3GHz and a dual core clocked at 1.45Ghz respectively and have a TDP of 25W.
Both Semprons will contain the same 128 GCN radeon cores but operate at a reduced frequency of 450MHz and 400MHz and cost around $40 and $36 respectively.
Source - cpu-world
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