Piledriver (microarchitecture)

This resulted in clock speed gains of 8–10% and a performance increase of around 15% with similar power characteristics.

[2] APUs aimed at desktops followed in early October 2012 with Piledriver-based FX-series CPUs released later in the month.

[5] Piledriver includes improvements over the original Bulldozer microarchitecture:[6][7] APU features table The K suffix denotes an unlocked A-series processor.

Leaked roadmaps showed Piledriver CPUs featuring up to ten cores as part of the Komodo platform.

[19] AMD specify that the 9xxx series processors require "robust liquid cooling" due to their high Thermal Design Power (TDP)[20] For the server market, three versions were stated to be under development:[26] In January 2013, AMD officially introduced a new series of APUs codenamed Richland.

[35] The A10-6800K offered approximately 5% performance improvements in performance applications and 3D games over its A10-5800K Trinity based predecessor, largely due to Richland's higher clock speeds and higher overclocking potential than Trinity.