AMD Officially Announces Bristol and Stoney Ridge APUs

AMD officially announced its new mobile APUs, codenamed “Bristol Ridge” and “Stoney Ridge” at Computex. The Bristol Ridge APUs get a TDP of 35 watts, while Stoney Ridge is more economical and gets a rating of 15 watts.

AMD already announced in April that it would introduce its Bristol Ridge APUs at Computex and also published some benchmark results. The Bristol Ridge processor is AMD’s seventh generation APUs and uses Excavator cores and DDR4 memory. Precise information about clock speeds and model numbers is not yet known, but AMD will release A10, A12, and FX processors with the new architecture.

In addition to Bristol Ridge, AMD also introduced Stoney Ridge, which uses the same architecture, but has a TDP of up to 15 watts. The Stoney Ridge processors are therefore slower and are labeled as A9, A6 and E2 APUs. It is also not yet known which GPU AMD will integrate in the new processor, but the A9 would be just as fast graphically as a Core i3-6100U.

Finally, Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, was able to report that the introduction of the new Zen processor, codenamed Summit Ridge, is on track. The Zen desktop CPU gets eight cores and sixteen threads and “a forty percent higher IPC” compared to Excavator cores. The Zen architecture is said to scale particularly well, meaning that after the introduction of the desktop processor, variants for servers, laptops and embedded devices will also appear.

Laptops with the new Bristol and Stoney Ridge APUs are available immediately. The Zen processors should be available in the fall.