Sapphire Unveils Three APU-based Innovations

[R0H1T]

While Sapphire's LGA1150 motherboard lineup came across as a little lukewarm, the company more than made up for that with its fleet of motherboards that take advantage of AMD's newest A-series and E-series APUs and SoCs. First, there's the PGS A320M, a micro-ATX motherboard that ships with a FirePro A320 socket FM2 APU pre-installed. Largely identical to an A10-5800K, and based on the "Trinity" micro-architecture, the A320 features FirePro-branded professional graphics that's certified for most modern 3D productivity applications, and can give display output at resolutions as high as 4096 x 2160. The board features one each of DisplayPort 1.2, dual-link DVI-I, and D-Sub display outputs. Other features include eight SATA 6 Gb/s ports, four USB 3.0, gigabit Ethernet (Broadcom controller), and 8-channel HD audio.

Things get interesting with a contraption called IPC-FS1r2A75. This board comes in a proprietary IPC form-factor, features an FS1 rev 2.0 socket, which seats R-series APUs, an embedded AMD Radeon E6000 series GPU based on the Graphics CoreNext arhitecture, with its own dedicated GDDR5 memory on-package, and AMD A75 FCH chipset. The board offers six mini-DisplayPort and four HDMI outputs, two DDR3 SO-DIMM slots, an open-ended PCI-Express 2.0 x4 slot, four mPCIe slots (in stacks of two), five SATA 6 Gb/s ports, six USB 3.0 ports, two gigabit Ethernet connections, and 6-channel audio.

The IPC-FT3GTS is a mini-ITX board running a dual- or quad-core AMD G-series SoC based on the new "Kabini" micro-architecture (options), which feature Radeon HD 8000 series graphics. The board offers two full-size DDR3 DIMM slots, four SATA 6 Gb/s ports, a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot, an mPCIe, two USB 3.0 ports, DVI, HDMI, and D-Sub display outputs, which can be simultaneously used; gigabit Ethernet, and 6-channel HD audio.

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[R0H1T]

Trivia : spot the image with GDDR5

 

[NTMBK]

Sadly, that's not what you initially thought! That's a separate GCN discrete GPU on that board- there is a soldered dGPU, a chipset, and a socket for an APU clearly visible.

 

[Gideon]

Sadly, that's not what you initially thought! That's a separate GCN discrete GPU on that board- there is a soldered dGPU, a chipset, and a socket for an APU clearly visible.

Yes, AMD has had on-package GDDR5 on GPUs for a while now. I'd really like some Steamroller models to use the same. Though I'm afraid the package is too small for that

 

[R0H1T]

Sadly, that's not what you initially thought! That's a separate GCN discrete GPU on that board- there is a soldered dGPU, a chipset, and a socket for an APU clearly visible.

Apparently but something like this could also work with Kaveri perhaps, sorta like sideport memory with the earlier 890GX chipset from AMD ? I'm just hinting at the possibility, whether its actually feasible or not is a separate question :\

edit : There's no solid info whether Kaveri will support some form of hybrid memory structure(DDR3+GDDR5) or not but that's definitely on my wishlist.

 

[inf64]

We have naked Kaveri images (geek porn!) and there is no trace of on package memory. Also AMD mentioned nothing about such a configuration so not likely that it will happen anytime soon.

 

[Gideon]

We have naked Kaveri images (geek porn!) and there is no trace of on package memory.

Having naked die images in itself doesn't really prove anything. If it were used, then surely on only a few models, just like Crystalwell. The majority of Haswell package shots also have no Crystalwell

Regardless I also find this extremely unlikely. But one could dream

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Ahh, i only now saw this:

http://www.hardware.fr/news/13148/computex-apu-kaveri-photo-da-mo.html

Even if they upsized the package somewhat it would be next to impossible to fit any RAM chips there ...

 

[Abwx]

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First, there's the PGS A320M, a micro-ATX motherboard that ships with a FirePro A320 socket FM2 APU pre-installed. Largely identical to an A10-5800K, and based on the "Trinity" micro-architecture, the A320 features FirePro-branded professional graphics that's certified for most modern 3D productivity applications, and can give display output at resolutions as high as 4096 x 2160.

I wonder why they do not relase such a chip for laptops ,
it would sell much more given the hefty price of current 3D
pro apps certified portables..