On Monday, Oct. 3, AMD announced that the first desktops featuring its seventh generation Pro APUs are launched on the market.
AMD Bristol Ridge Pro APUs
AMD offered details about the first business desktops powered by the Bristol Ridge Pro processors on its announced company website. These business desktops target enterprises rather than mainstream consumers, providing graphics and computing high-performance packed into an energy-efficient, small chip.
According to Digital Trends, these new AMD Pro chips can be found in several desktop solutions from Lenovo and HP. Among them are high-performance computers such as the ThinkCentre M79 desktop and the new EliteDesk 705 G3 Series desktops.
AMD's seventh-generation Pro APU lineup currently includes seven chips: two A6 units, one A8 unit, two A10 units and two A12 units. Depending on the APU, these chips for desktop business computers consume between 35 watts and 65 watts of power.
The AMD Pro APUs support DDR4 memory working at 2,400MHz. Among them, the two A6 APUs provide Radeon R5 graphics and the remaining five offer Radeon R7 graphics.
The prior sixth-generation family of A-Series Pro APU's designed and manufactured by AMD consisted of 11 chips ranging from the A4-8350B dual-core APU to the quad-core A12-8870 APU. By comparison, the newer A12-9800 chip has a slightly faster base clock speed than the older A12-8870. The new chip comes with support for HDMI 2.0 instead of HDMI 1.4 but otherwise the two of them come with the same GPU clock speed, the same boost clock speed, the same number of CPU and GPU cores, as well as the same thermal envelope.
According to Venture Beat, the AMD Pro chips are accelerated processing units (APUs) that combine a graphics processing unit and a central processing unit on the same piece of silicon. These APUs feature support for HSA compute acceleration, come with up to four x86 Excavator cores and the latest DDR4 memory standard.
According to AMD, a new feature called the Virtual Super Resolution 2 allows for a visual experience similar to viewing 4K content on a regular 1080p display. AMD also said that the graphics are 88 percent faster and the new processor is 17 percent faster than the equivalent Intel Core i5 chip.
