AMD 2014 A-SERIES AND PERFORMANCE MOBILE ACCELERATED PROCESSING UNITS (CODENAMED KAVERI)

AMDs 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile APUs (codenamed Kaveri) are available for desktops and mobile PCs, respectively. They mark the debut of AMDs revolutionary Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) and Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture for mobile devices and are AMDs most advanced APUs to-date. 3 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) EVOLVING THE APU: EVOLUTION FOR BETTER COMPUTE, ENTERTAINMENT, & PC EXPERIENCES 2011 APUs 2012 APUs 2013 APUs Worlds 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 Worlds first Server APUs Worlds first Semi-Custom APUs Design Goals for 2014 Worlds first HSA products for desktop and notebook More compute Enable new user experiences 4 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 5 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 6 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) REVOLUTIONARY ARCHITECTURE KAVERI DIE SPECS Die Size: 245mm Transistor count: 2.41 Billion Process: 28nmSHP 7 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 8 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 KAVERI EXPERIENCES & FEATURES 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 11 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 12 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 13 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 14 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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. 15 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) ADDRESSING YEARS OF API INEFFICIENCIES ENABLING IMMERSIVE, IMAGINATIVE AND CPU-FREE AUDIO PROVING THAT POWERFUL GPU COMPUTE IS ESSENTIAL TO TOMORROWS WORKLOADS PERFORMANCE OF DIRECTX UP TO 2X 16 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) Revolutionary improvements: Scalable, flexible and optimized for heterogeneous computing Advanced features and raw performance for today and tomorrows games Built for efficiency THE COMPUTE PERFORMANCE UP TO 4.5X THE TESSELLATION PERFORMANCE FOR DIRECTX11 GAMING UP TO 2.5X LOWER GPU IDLE POWER CONSUMPTION UP TO 95% KAVERI VS THE COMPETITION 18 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 19 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) AMD JPEG DECODER SPEEDING UP EVERYDAY TASKS AMD JPEG DECODER WINDOWS DECODER 7.19s 13.01sAMD Built-in Up to 80% faster6 20 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) ALL-DAY BATTERY LIFE eREADER WEB BROWSING Up to 11 hours Up to 9.2 hours 21 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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) 22 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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 23 | POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF WHATS NEW AWARD NOMINATION, AMD 2014 A-Series and Performance Mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) 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