AMD Adds New A10-7890K and Athlon X4 880K Processors To Its Line Up

Today AMD is announcing two new processors – the A10-7890K is an APU similar to the A10-7860K but with increased frequencies, while the Athlon X4 880K is similar without the integrated graphics. The A10-7890K is the fastest AMD desktop APU released to date, with 1.02 TFLOPS of theoretical compute performance. The APU
will use a 4.1 GHz base frequency, which will reach the 4.3 GHz on turbo, with 8 graphics compute units (512 streaming processors total) at 866 MHz. This is all within the 95W thermal envelope. The A10-7890K will be bundled with their new Wraith cooler, rated at 125W with a shroud and LEDs.

The Athlon X4 880K will have similar specifications at 100 MHz less, but without the integrated graphics. It also comes with an unlocked clock multiplier and it is rated at 95W. This one gets AMD’s new 125W thermal solution, which is essentially the Wraith cooler without the shroud.

The new Athlon X4 880K is based on the older Godavari architecture, which allows quad-core configurations and overclocking. The gaming chip won't match AMD's top-line FX chips on performance, but can be paired with a mid-range GPU to play 4K games at 60 frames per second, according to AMD.

In addition, AMd said that the recently announced A10-7870K will come with the new 125W AMD thermal solution featuring the same capable hardware and performance of the Wraith Cooler, without the illuminated shroud.

	A10- 7890K	A10- 7870K	X4 880K
Modules	2	2	2
Threads	4	4	4
Core Freq. (GHz)	4.1-4.3	3.9-4.1	4.0-4.2
Compute Units	4+8	4+8	4+0
Streaming Processors	512	512	N/A
IGP Freq. (MHz)	866	866	N/A
TDP	95W	95W	95W
Cooler	Wraith	125W NS	125W NS
DRAM Frequency	2133	2133	2133
L2 Cache	2x2MB	2x2MB	2x2MB

The AMD A10-7890K and Athlon X4 880K processors and thermal solutions, and the AMD A10-7870K with its new 125W Thermal Solution, are planned to be available for sale at the end of March 2016

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