AMD Carrizo Based Athlon Chips Leaked, Coming Soon To FM2+ Desktop Platform

[csbin]

http://wccftech.com/amd-carrizo-athlon-desktop-cpus/

It seems like AMD is getting ready for multiple launches in 2016, not only on new platforms but also for existing platforms. You may have heard of Carrizo which serves AMD as their flagship mobility processor lineup, but you might be surprised to know that Carrizo might soon be coming to the FM2+ desktop platform in the form of the latest Athlon chips.

Carrizo has been serving the mobility sector for a while and AMD launched their Kaveri refresh platform for the desktop platform called Godavari. Godavari might have brought nothing new to the desktop market but AMD’s upcoming Athlon chips will act a small refresh on the budget FM2+ platform. While AMD is expected to launch their Carrizo APUs for desktops under the Bristol Ridge family that will be supported by the new AM4 boards, the Athlon chips are getting a quick update on the existing FM2+ motherboards and Gigabyte has leaked two Athlon processors in their CPU support list for such motherboards which are using the latest Excavator 28nm core architecture, an updated version of the steamroller architecture featured on Kaveri processors.

 

[Burpo]

Yay! 28nm..

"There is a slight possibility that both chips will be sold exclusively in the Chinese markets as AMD has several APAC targeted products in the line. Even their X4 870K Godavari processor was sold exclusively in the Chinese and Japanese markets so people living in US and EU might be out of luck."

 

[cbn]

Showing up on a BIOS list doesn't always mean the chip will launch.

For example Athlon x 4 550 and Athlon x 4 530 showed up on Socket AM1 BIOS back in September 2014 but never launched.



P.S. For reasons I stated in this post, I would hope AMD would reconsider this launch and use the harvested dies* (with DDR4 controller enabled rather than DDR3 controller enabled) for AM4.

*Carrizo = Bristol Ridge, but with DDR4 memory controller disabled.

 

[III-V]

So Excavator on AM4 as well as FM2+, yes?

 

[The Stilt]

*Carrizo = Bristol Ridge, but with DDR4 memory controller disabled.

Bristol Ridge = Carrizo, but with DDR3 memory controller disabled

 

[dark zero]

AM1 Athlon 550 and 530 were supposed to NOT to have iGPU and being OCable chips... it was a great chance to ultimately curbstomp Bay Trail and even reach to the low CORE Celeron tier levels... too bad that they didn't launched it.

INBF those Carrizo Athlons are moved to AM4.

 

[DrMrLordX]

So Excavator on AM4 as well as FM2+, yes?

Yup, just not in APU form. They're Bristol Ridge with failed iGPU.