AMD 2014 A Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (Codenamed ‘Kaveri’)

1. AMD 2014 A-SERIES AND
PERFORMANCE MOBILE
ACCELERATED PROCESSING UNITS
(CODENAMED ‘KAVERI’)

2. AMD’s 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile APUs
(codenamed “Kaveri”) are available for desktops and
mobile PCs, respectively.
They mark the debut of AMD’s revolutionary
Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) and Graphics
Core Next (GCN) Architecture for mobile devices and are
AMD’s most advanced APUs to-date.

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EVOLVING THE APU:
EVOLUTION FOR BETTER COMPUTE, ENTERTAINMENT, & PC EXPERIENCES
2011 APUs 2012 APUs 2013 APUs
 World’s first design with
multi-core x86 and discrete-level
GPU on single die
 Radeon Memory Bus and Fusion
Compute Link
 AMD A-Series and AMD E-Series
for PCs,
G-Series for Embedded
 New generations of x86 and
GPU IP incorporated
 Dedicated video encode/decode
 New AMD A-Series for PCs, R-
Series for Embedded
 First full System-on-Chip APUs
 First tablet APUs
 New AMD G-Series Embedded
SOC
 World’s first Server APUs
 World’s first Semi-Custom APUs
Design Goals for 2014
 World’s first HSA products for
desktop and notebook
 More compute
 Enable new user experiences

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OUR DESIGN CHOICES
 All new architecture for
50% more GPU
performance
 Up to 20% better x86 IPC
 Featuring Shared System
Memory
 Heterogeneous Queuing
 GCN Architecture
 AMD TrueAudio
 Mantle
 PCIe Gen 3
 95W to 15W solutions
featuring Configurable TDP
REDESIGNED
COMPUTE CORES
HSA FEATURES
TO UNLOCK GFLOPS
ADDED THE LATEST
GAMING TECHNOLOGY
NEW POWER
OPTIMIZATIONS
CPU GPU
hUMA

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 Revolutionary Architecture
 Maximum Compute Performance
 Enabling New Experiences
Up to 12
Compute Cores*
HSA
Features
Graphics Core Next
(GCN) with Mantle
*Includes 4 CPU cores + 8 GPU cores.
Visit amd.com/ComputeCores for more information.
AMD
TrueAudio

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REVOLUTIONARY ARCHITECTURE
“KAVERI” DIE SPECS
Die Size: 245mm
Transistor count: 2.41 Billion
Process: 28nmSHP

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REVOLUTIONARY ARCHITECTURE
UP TO 12 COMPUTE CORES* (4 CPU + 8 GPU)
 Up to 20% IPC uplift on up to 4
“Steamroller” CPU CORES
Fetch
Decode Decode
Integer
Scheduler
Integer
Scheduler
Shared L2 Cache
FP Scheduler
Pipeline
Pipeline
Pipeline
Pipeline
Pipeline
Pipeline
Pipeline
Pipeline
MMXUnit
128-bitFMAC
128-bitFMAC
L1 DCacheL1 DCache
Branch &
Message
Unit
Scalar Unit
Vector Units
(4x SIMD-16)
Vector Registers
(4x 64KB)
Texture Filter
Units (4)
Local Data Share
(64KB)
L1 Cache
(16KB)
Scheduler
Texture Fetch
Load / Store
Units (16)
Scalar Registers
(4KB)
*Visit amd.com/ComputeCores for more information.
GPU COMPUTE CORES
 Up to eight
GCN GPU CORES
powering parallel
compute and
next-gen apps
CPU COMPUTE CORES

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“Steamroller” x86 Cores
Graphics Core Next (GCN) with Mantle
First mobile platform with HSA features
Up to 818 GFLOPS
DirectX® 11.2
UVD 4.2, VCE 2.0
DDR3-2133 memory support
PCI Express Gen 3
AMD TrueAudio technology

9. KAVERI EXPERIENCES & FEATURES

10. 10 | "KAVERI" TECH DAY | JANUARY 2014 | CONFIDENTIAL – NDA REQUIRED
SERIAL
WORKLOADS
PARALLEL
WORKLOADS
hUMA
APU
ACCELERATED PROCESSING UNIT
WHAT IS HSA?
Processor design that makes it easy
to harness the entire computing
power of an APU for faster and more
power-efficient devices, including
personal computers, tablets,
smartphones and cloud servers

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HSA FEATURES OVERVIEW
hUMA CPUGPU
APU
ACCELERATED
PROCESSING
UNIT
HSA
SERIAL
WORKLOADS
PARALLEL
WORKLOADS
EQUAL ACCESS TO ENTIRE MEMORY (hUMA)
 First time ever: GPU and CPU have uniform
visibility into entire memory space
INTELLIGENT QUEUING (hQ)
 CPU and GPU have equal flexibility to be
used to create and dispatch work items
UNLOCKING ALL APU GFLOPS
 Access to total compute capability of APU
architecture

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HSA ADVANTAGES OF "KAVERI"
 HSA features make "Kaveri" the FIRST full OpenCL 2.0 capable chip
 Ease of programming to use the GPU for compute
 Easy access to all 12 Compute Cores*
 More applications from ease of use
 Better user experiences
*“Kaveri” has 4 CPU Cores + 8 GPU Cores, all harnessed by HSA

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END USER EXPERIENCES
BEST
AUDIO
EXPERIENCE
AMD TRUEAUDIO
BEST
USER INTERFACE
EXPERIENCE
AMD
FACE LOGIN
AMD
GESTURE CONTROL
BEST
STREAMING VIDEO
EXPERIENCE
AMD QUICK
STREAM TECHNOLOGY
AMD PERFECT
PICTURE WITH
AMD STEADY
VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

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AMD TRUEAUDIO TECHNOLOGY
ADDING AUDIO PROCESSING TO THE APU
Loud/Noisy
Environments
Enhanced Noise
Removal
2-Channel Audio Amazing Directional
Audio
Repeated/
Simulated Audio
More Real-time
Voices and Channels
Raw Microphone After Acoustic Echo Cancellation After Beamforming
OUT
AUDIO
IN
AUDIO
AMD TrueAudio technology is offered by select AMD Radeon™ R9 and R7 200 Series GPUs and select
AMD A-Series APUs and is designed to improve acoustic realism. Requires enabled game or application.

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ADDRESSING YEARS OF API INEFFICIENCIES
ENABLING IMMERSIVE, IMAGINATIVE AND CPU-FREE AUDIO
PROVING THAT POWERFUL GPU COMPUTE IS ESSENTIAL TO TOMORROW’S WORKLOADS
PERFORMANCE
OF DIRECTX®
UP TO 2X

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Revolutionary improvements:
‒ Scalable, flexible and optimized for heterogeneous computing
‒ Advanced features and raw performance for today and tomorrow’s games
‒ Built for efficiency
THE COMPUTE
PERFORMANCE
UP TO 4.5X
THE TESSELLATION PERFORMANCE
FOR DIRECTX®11 GAMING
UP TO 2.5X
LOWER GPU IDLE
POWER CONSUMPTION
UP TO 95%

17. KAVERI VS THE COMPETITION

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SPEED THROUGH INTENSE APPLICATIONS
UP TO
59%
FASTER4
with OpenCL™
SMART SHARPEN COMPLETION 3.17s 56.67s
UP TO
384%
FASTER5
THAN THE
COMPETITION
with OpenCL™
SMART SHARPEN COMPLETION
AMD A10-7300 APU

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AMD JPEG DECODER
SPEEDING UP EVERYDAY TASKS
AMD JPEG DECODER WINDOWS DECODER
7.19s 13.01sAMD Built-in
Up to
80%
faster6

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ALL-DAY BATTERY LIFE
eREADER WEB BROWSING
Up to 11 hours Up to 9.2 hours

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GAMING ON “KAVERI” WITH RADEON™ R7 GRAPHICS
The graphics silicon in “Kaveri” is
built for playable and affordable
1080P GAMING
0 20 40 60 80 100
BattleField 4 (med)
Bioshock: infinite (low)
Dirt Showdown (low)
Just Cause 2 (low)
Sleeping Dogs (normal)
Sonic All Star Racing (max)
Star Wars Clone Wars (max)
Tombraider (low)
A10-7850K
i5 4670K
35% FASTER
77% FASTER
71% FASTER
85% FASTER
78% FASTER
91% FASTER
60% FASTER
55% FASTER
Game Performance (Avg. FPS)

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PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP
BASEMARK CL
SYSTEM8GRAPHICS9COMPUTE10
Intel i5-4200U "Haswell"
AMD A10-7300 "Kaveri"
Intel i5-4200U "Haswell"
AMD A10-7300 "Kaveri"
Intel i5-4200U "Haswell"
AMD A10-7300 "Kaveri" 1.2X
50% BETTER
COMPARABLE

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 Revolutionary Architecture
 Maximum Compute Performance
 Enabling New Experiences
Up to 12
Compute Cores*
HSA
Features
Graphics Core Next
(GCN) with Mantle
*Includes 4 CPU cores + 8 GPU cores.
Visit amd.com/ComputeCores for more information.
AMD
TrueAudio1