Budget and mainstream markets (desktop and mobile): Bristol Ridge, and Stoney Ridge (for entry level notebooks), APUs.The Carrizo mobile APUs were launched in 2015 based on Excavator x86 cores and featuring Heterogeneous System Architecture for integrated task sharing between CPUs and GPUs, which allows a GPU to perform compute functions, which is claimed provide greater performance increases than shrinking the feature size alone.Budget and mainstream markets (mobile only): Carrizo APU.There are three APU lines announced or released: Main article: List of AMD Accelerated Processing Unit microprocessors Excavator can process up to 15% more instructions per clock compared to AMD's previous core Steamroller. Excavator is designed using High Density (aka 'Thin') Libraries normally used for GPUs to reduce electric energy consumption and die size, delivering a 30 percent increase in efficient energy use. Įxcavator added hardware support for new instructions such as AVX2, BMI2 and RdRand. The next generation sister architectures will be the x86-64Zen and AArch64K12 architectures. Įxcavator has been confirmed to be AMD's final revision of the 'Bulldozer' family, with two new microarchitectures replacing Excavator a year later. An Excavator-based APU and CPU variant named Toronto for server and enterprise markets will also be available. The Carrizo APU is designed to be HSA 1.0 compliant.

The Excavator-based APU for mainstream applications is called Carrizo and was released in 2015. On October 12, 2011, AMD revealed Excavator to be the code name for the fourth-generation Bulldozer-derived core. Jump to navigationJump to search Excavator – Family 15h (4th-gen) ProducedĪMD Excavator Family 15h is a microarchitecture developed by AMD to succeed Steamroller Family 15h for use in AMD APU processors.

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