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and these gen7 ApS are now shipping with m4 motherboards that's the big news here we have some information on the mains main stream and entry level and for chipsets we don't have the Zen chips I didn't vote just yet but that is of course still coming out so we'll have that once it's ready but for now we're talking about the mainstream and entry-level chipsets of am for this is a unified chipset and will also run through some of the new seven Jenna ap aspects before getting to that this coverage is brought to you by iBUYPOWER and their new elements gaming PC with a full tempered glass side window tempered glass in the front LEDs in the front and bottom and it's basically a modified s340 the new AP is announced are on the screen now the gen7 high-end AP is the a12 9800 which runs four of the new excavator x86 cores at a 3.8 gigahertz at base clock or 4.2 gigahertz a boost all the new noteworthy apu is used on r7 graphics chip for the IGP with the a12 9800 clocked at 11:08 megahertz for the GPU with eight GPU ciues TDP is 65 watts for all chips except for the e suffix two chips which are 35 watts and significantly lower clock rates the 810 9700 also on the screen loses 0.3 gigahertz off the base clock and 0.5 off the boost clock from the a12 9800 also reducing the GPU that's 60 years from the 8 on the a12 at 9800 the a6 9600 is comparable just with it still lower clock rates we think the x4 950 will be among the most interesting options since users will be able to use a low-end CPU with the IGP disabled for a cheap and more affordable CPU solution when coupled with a dedicated GPU for max performance the a6 9500 apu is only a 2 core processor and isn't really worth considering for most games at this point this is a low end consumer part note also that the new excavator CPUs and am for low-end platforms will support a maximum of 20 400 megahertz for ddr4 speeds as for the chipset new is the more interesting stuff for an for since this will be applicable to Zen as well the amp for shipment initially will be with the be 350 a320 and act B and a 300 chipsets those our entry-level and mainstream some of them actually aren't even something you'll ever consider for gaming use cases but at the low end that's what we're starting with this is a move to unify the FM and AM platforms so FM 2 plus will go away as a separate apu platform and AM 3 has effectively become am for now obviously so F M 2 plus M 3 have been unified into am 4 that means your ApS and in the futures and CPUs will both use the same platform and that means that if you buy an APU early you could theoretically upgrade it to Xen in the future now obviously in that case you'd want to check the official support list for CPUs on the motherboard because there is a good chance if you buy a low-power CPU or CPU and you plant a couple with the motherboard obviously it'll need to support that higher TDP from these end chips as they roll out we don't have the Zen chipset yet but all of the chips that's will natively support PCIe gen3 that's of course the biggest news here even though we're not really fully saturating the bandwidth in most use cases just yet also natively supports USB 3.1 gen2 and everything below that USB 3.1 John 1:3 point Oh things that am3+ did not support FM 2 plus did in some cases this is a big move for AMD because again it's unifying those platforms so that sticks to their sort of approach of trying to make it easier to upgrade the CPU only and keep the same platform a motherboard with your system in terms of parallels the DB 350 somewhat parallels that the 970 of the previous platform and the a 78 on the FM to a platform B 350 has a 5.8 watt TDP as opposed to a 7.8 watt TDP of the a 78 chipset and even higher on the 970 19.6 20 watts somewhere in that range for the low-end chipsets the a320 coming out on a m4 that parallels the 760 G and the a 68 G which you may have never even heard of because they are very low and nos and then we'd really normally commend but those are the comparisons to the a320 that one should probably be off your radar for the most part SFF small form-factor will use the XB and a 300 chipsets we don't have a lot of information on those just yet in terms of specs the gen7 AP is support dual channel ddr3 point 1 gen 2 and 2 SATA 3 ports and two nvm Elaine's or alternatively two extra SATA 3 ports and two PCIe lanes for MDOT to usage the be 350 chipset will support two USB 3.1 gen2 2 USB 3.1 gen2 on and at 6 USB 2.0 with two state of three lanes present as well and the SATA II support is apparent in one single SATA II slot and that can be peeled off for two additional state at three ports instead if you prefer that's done by the motherboard manufacturer of course still on B 356 PCIe gen 2 lanes are available for m2 and general purpose devices and SATA ray to support a 0 1 and 10 am for h20 the chipset will lose 1 USB 3.1 gen2 channel and 2 PCIe gen 2 lanes and the xB and a 300 chipsets will lose the raid 10 support among other features that we might talk about in the future but not today as for performance we've got some charts from AMD these are claiming equal performance in PC mark 8 home accelerated watt 4 watt with an i5 6500 65 watt CPU on an a12 9800 at 65 watts and these claiming 17 percent higher performance against an i5 6500 T watt 4 watt versus an Intel i5 6500 T 35 watt CPU again versus the H valve at 9800 a 3,500 Y APU and 3dmark 11 which is ancient at this point and II is claiming nearly a 2x performance gain against the IGP of their selected Intel CPUs and note that this isn't a 100% CPU CPU comparison because the AMD is faster memory for their own test systems in the end notes show that AMD is running ddr4 2400 while intel's running ddr4 2133 but obviously Intel can't support 2,400 so that is one fair point though the memory can't account for some of these changes so performance will be dragged down on these chips that's a little bit partially because of the memory speed limitation other limitations as well in comparison to the Zen chipset coming out later we from what we understand anyway the memory speed will definitely account for some sort of a semi apparent speed loss but they are ap use and APU chipsets even though they're on the m4 platform so you're really not meant to necessarily use these with AMD Zen the Zen chipset still forthcoming don't know a lot about it yet officially though we have detailed the AMD Zanta architecture in at least some aspects on the channel so you can hit the channel in the description below check out those information videos if you want to learn more about the architecture itself or is N and then as always patreon link is a postural video to help us out directly thank you for watching I'll see you all next time