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FM2+ AMD APUs vs FM2+ Athlon x4 860k

FM2+ AMD APUs vs FM2+ Athlon x4 860k
« on: October 18, 2014, 02:30:19 pm »
Hi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
FM2+ AMD APUs offer native support for 8 GT/s PCI Express gen 3.0 .............!

I am interested in Athlon x4 860k ,which is also Kaveri FM2+ family ,,,,,,,,will support or not PCI Express 3.0.........?

th.regards

Re: FM2+ AMD APUs vs FM2+ Athlon x4 860k
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2014, 03:19:16 pm »
Hi,again,,,,,,,,,,,
According to unconfirmed information,
than PCI Express gen 3.0 ,,,,,,,amd x4 860k also support Unified Video Decoder 4.0 and Video Coding Engine 2.0
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*Future Excavator-based AMD microprocessors may upgrade the UVD engine to version 6. One of the anticipated features of this UVD could be support for H.265 format (this feature is not confirmed).th.V

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Re: FM2+ AMD APUs vs FM2+ Athlon x4 860k
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2014, 09:46:28 pm »
It cant have UVD engine as it is a CPU only.

The PCI-E 3.0 is a feature for Kaveri APU-s that it has ,the only way you get PCI-E 3.0 with AMD is using Kaveri based APU/CPU.
The 860K looks like a great choice.
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