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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: vesolin on October 18, 2014, 02:30:19 pm

Title: FM2+ AMD APUs vs FM2+ Athlon x4 860k
Post by: vesolin 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

Title: Re: FM2+ AMD APUs vs FM2+ Athlon x4 860k
Post by: vesolin 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

Title: Re: FM2+ AMD APUs vs FM2+ Athlon x4 860k
Post by: dmdilks on October 19, 2014, 03:00:32 pm

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-Athlon%20II%20X4%20860K.html

Title: Re: FM2+ AMD APUs vs FM2+ Athlon x4 860k
Post by: Vezina 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.