Phc7006: Although as it seems Bristol Ridge and Carrizzo are not that different, being based on the steamroller architecture. Here too, curious to see what "Zen" / summit ridge actually delivers, both for AM4 cpus and for APUs.
CPU-wise, the
rumoured specs put the top of the line Bristol Ridge CPU as slightly slower than the current A10-7860K (same clocks but half the cache), but the GPU part is faster than the A10-7890K: faster clock, DDR4 RAM and GCN 1.2, which has texture compression, so should be significantly faster for some things.
The A10-7890K would serve my gaming needs nicely, but it would be much nicer to get that performance in a 65W APU with an AM4 socket that could be used for future upgrades.