AMD AM4 Motherboard Spotted With Bristol Ridge A12-9800 Processor - Featured on HP OEM Machine

An AMD AM4 motherboard which will power the OEM based PCs has been pictured, supporting AMD'south next gen Bristol Ridge and Elevation Ridge processors. The AMD AM4 platform volition be part of their adjacent line of CPUs that will be aimed at the desktop market place. The Bristol Ridge family of APUs will exist the first to hit AM4 boards followed by the enthusiast grade Summit Ridge processors which will be power by the Zen architecture that brings up to 40% IPC improvement.

The first AMD AM4 motherboard featuring the Bristol Ridge flagship has been spotted in the wild.

AMD AM4 Motherboard Spotted In The Wild With Flagship Bristol Ridge A12-9800 APU

The AMD AM4 motherboard shown off was to be featured in an HP Desktop PC. We do not have the verbal specs of this PC just nosotros can tell that it'south built to offer full compatibility with Bristol Ridge processors which launch soon in the consumer market. The motherboard seems to exist a custom OEM design board that has been congenital to offering just the basic I/O features and ports in OEM PCs. We are looking at the new AM4 socket which features a design similar to current AM3+ socket.

The AM4 socket uses the same pin layout every bit previous AMD design along with the lever that is used to push the CPU in and out of the socket. The motherboard carrier a 6 Phase PWM design which should exist plenty for this product. Socket is provided ability through a unmarried 4-Pin connector while the motherboard is powered past a 8+ 8 Pin connector configuration. There'due south no 24-Pivot ATX connector which could exist due to the custom HP pattern nosotros mentioned a while ago.

AMD is expected to launch both Bristol Ridge and Summit Ridge CPU lineups in 2022.

The motherboard has two SATA Three 6 GB/s ports and two USB three.0 internal headers. Expansion slots include two PCI-e 3.0 x16 and 2 PCI-e 3.0 x1 slots. The motherboard provides four DDR4 DIMM slots next to the socket which is the first time a consumer course desktop platform from AMD is offer back up for the adjacent-gen DRAM standard. I/O includes a range of connectors such as PS/2, HDMI, Display Port, VGA, DVI, Gigabit Ethernet, USB iii.0 / two.0 and a 2-Channel Audio jack. We can't spot whatsoever PCH on this motherboard which indicates that Bristol Ridge will take that on the bit dice itself.

The AMD A12-9800 APU features the excavator core and third generation GCN cadre architecture.

Talking almost Bristol Ridge, while the mobility platform has already been introduced, it's fourth dimension to talk well-nigh the desktop parts. The flagship A12-9800 processor comes with a core clock of 3.80 GHz. The chip features a quad core design along with eight GCN three.0 compute units, offering 512 stream processors. The processor is expected to feature a TDP effectually 65W (Configurable down to 45W). We can note in the following pictures that OEMs are readying desktop PCs with Bristol Ridge processors but the absence of AM4 boards from Computex may have indicated that Bristol Ridge could exist an OEM just platform while Meridian Ridge will bring AM4 to the masses.

Noctua's AMD AM4 upgrade kit will permit back up for next-gen AMD CPUs. (Image Credits: Sweclockers)

The AM4 socket will not be compatible with older coolers hence many cooling solution manufacturers displayed new mounting kits that will let compatibility of their coolers with the upcoming AM4 socket. Noctua showed off their AMD AM4 upgrade kit that will allow support for Brsitol Ridge and Summit Ridge processors without having to upgrade your existing Noctua cooler.

AMD AM4 Motherboard Spotted (Image Credits: Baidu):

AMD Flagship Desktop APUs:

Model	AMD A12-9800	AMD A10-7890K	AMD A10-7850K	AMD A10-6800K	AMD A10-5800K
APU Family Name	Bristol Ridge	Godavari	Kaveri	Richland	Trinity
CPU Core	Excavator	Steamroller	Steamroller	Piledriver	Piledriver
# of Cores	4	4	four	4	4
Turbo Cadre iii.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Aye	Yes
Base Clock	3.eight GHz	4.1 GHz	three.7 GHz	four.1 GHz	3.eight GHz
Turbo Clock	4.2 GHz	4.3 GHz	4.0 GHz	4.4 GHz	4.2 GHz
L2 Enshroud	4 MB	iv MB	4 MB	4 MB	4 MB
Unlocked Pattern	Yes	Yes	Yep	Yep	Yes
Graphics Core	GCN Radeon R7 Series	GCN Radeon R7 Series	GCN Radeon R7 Serial	HD 8670D	HD 7660D
GPU Cores	512 Cores	512 Cores	512 Cores	384 Cores	384 Cores
GPU Clock	900-1000 MHz	867 MHz	720 MHz	844 MHz	800 MHz
TDP	65W	95W	95W	100W	100W
Launch Engagement	Q3 2022	Summer 2022	Jan 2022	June 2022	October 2022