AMD Quietly Releases New A8-7680 Carrizo APU for Socket FM2+

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FM2+ may be on the older side, but AMD is apparently still invested in the “ancient” socket: an official product master and e-tailer listings confirm that a successor to the A8-7600, the A8-7680, is genuine. Many are questioning the point of this release.

It would appear the main difference between the two, noting that the A8-7680 specs are not formally released yet, is a 400 MHz increase on the base clock bringing it up from 3.1 GHz on the A8-7600 to 3.5 GHz on the A8-7680. Sadly, the boost clock remains the same at 3.8 GHz as noted at various e-tailers.
 
soooo....when/where can I buy it in the US? My HTPC could use it and my mobo is eligible for the firmware update.
 
I would say, getting motherboards are far more difficult for this older tech.
 
I guess it is nice for people on that socket to have one last huzzah to upgrade to, but I wonder how many of the FM2+ motherboards out there will get the needed BIOS update to support them...
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I guess it is nice for people on that socket to have one last huzzah to upgrade to, but I wonder how many of the FM2+ motherboards out there will get the needed BIOS update to support them...
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FM2+ Kaveri already has the a10-78xx chips that are all faster than this.
 
4 Billion people are still living 20+ years back in technology. By putting out a CPU that would be cheap upgrade will do well in those regions. Namely Asia and eastern Europe for starters.
 
not much demand in the U.S market, but outside the U.S. I could see this selling well enough to justify its release.

I ditched my fm2+ home theater pc, and swapped it out with a full size am3+ motherboard, and FX cpu. Could never sell it so it was just laying around collecting dust figured might as well put it to use. Undervolted and underclocked its actually pretty darn efficient.
 
This makes sense, there should always be an upgrade path for any socket in someones home/work. Replacing the whole system ala Intel isn't going to make sense for a lot of people at that price range.
 
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They sill have the wafer agreement with glofo this is a good way to honor some of it
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Also there's channel supply agreements. Sometimes they are required to keep stock on hand for a parts agreement for server rooms and the like. The contracts are likely expiring and AMD is offloading reserve stock.
 
Uh, ok. I assume this was something that some OEM wanted that was in the pipeline for a while.
 
Still running a A10 7850k I bought back in 2014 on on a unraid server (used to be a WMC HTPC). Runs good for what it needs to do.
 
The point...

Well, who cares really what the internal reasoning is. Sell off old stock, OEM deal, whatever. The net result is an EXTRA sku. Probably not useful for most people, but when did options ever hurt anyone. It's not like they're wasting any R&D resources on it.
 
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