AMD's Bristol Ridge AM4 CPUs will soon be hitting retail

Shame these are not Zen-based

| Source: AMD Author: Mark Campbell

AMD's Bristol Ridge AM4 CPUs will soon be hitting retail

Today it has been announced that AMD's Bristol-Ridge APUs will be having a retail release, filling in a market segment below Ryzen 3 and offering price points that are said to be under £100.

These APUs will be the first to be released on the AM4 platform, outside of the OEM space. These CPUs will be based on AMD's older Excavator CPU architecture and GCN GPU architecture, which means that the performance of these parts will not be revolutionary.

Even so, these CPUs will offer their users attractive pricepoints, with the most expensive model being said to cost less than £100. Sadly final pricing has not been confirmed at this time, though these CPUs are expected to hit retail shelves within the next few weeks.

AMD 7th Generation Bristol Ridge Processors Modules/

Threads CPU Base /

Turbo (MHz) GPU GPU Cores GPU Base /

Turbo (MHz) TDP A12-9800 2M / 4T 3800 / 4200 Radeon R7 512 800 / 1108 65W A12-9800E 2M / 4T 3100 / 3800 Radeon R7 512 655 / 900 35W A10-9700 2M / 4T 3500 / 3800 Radeon R7 384 720 / 1029 65W A10-9700E 2M / 4T 3000 / 3500 Radeon R7 384 600 / 847 35W A8-9600 2M / 4T 3100 / 3400 Radeon R7 384 655 / 900 65W A6-9550 1M / 2T 3800/4000 Radeon R5 384 800/1108 65W A6-9500 1M / 2T 3500 / 3800 Radeon R5 384 720 / 1029 65W A6-9500E 1M / 2T 3000 / 3400 Radeon R5 256 576 / 800 35W Athlon X4 970 2M / 4T 3800/4000 - N/A - 65W Athlon X4 950 2M / 4T 3500 / 3800 - N/A - 65W Athlon X4 940 2M / 4T 3200 / 3800 - N/A - 65W

Being based on Excavator, these CPUs are not expected to offer revolutionary performance levels, though they will certainly offer a lot of value for money when building basic office or web browsing machines. It will be interesting to see how these APUs will perform in modern games, though it certainly will not be able to compete with any modern CPU + Dedicated GPU setup.

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