AMD announces Bristol Ridge 7th generation of A-series APUs

AMD has announced during a conference call its new 7th generation of A-series APUs codenamed Bristol Ridge. The new SoCs are based on the same silicon as Carrizo, but with significantly increased performance-per-Watt and new features like native support for DDR4 and adaptive voltage for clock rate scaling.

The mobile FX A-series promises a performance uptick of up to 50 percent compared to the previous Kaveri series. Older rumors assumed the jump to be less dramatic, but AMD is positive that its Bristol Ridge range of APUs can provide the performance advantages that users have been looking for over the two-year old Kaveri APUs. Our preliminary tests show the FX-7500 to be almost 20 percent ahead of the A10-8700P.

The fabless manufacturer is particularly proud of having prepared its new 7th generation of APUs a full month ahead of schedule. Thus, the recently announced HP Envy x360 will be shipping with the brand new APU as well. AMD will more formally announce Bristol Ridge with additional OEM designs this coming Computex 2016 taking place from May 31 to June 4.

Finalized SKUs of the 7th generation of A-series APUs have not been revealed. Nonetheless, leaks from earlier in the year have made mentions of the 35 W FX-9830P and 15 W FX-9800P as the successor to the current FX-8800P. The higher 35 W TDP chip will supposedly support DDR4-2400 compared to DDR4-1866 on the 15 W TDP chip.

Published benchmarks below show a handful of Bristol Ridge APUs compared to Skylake Core i5 CPUs with GT3e GPUs.

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