It is only a suggestion
Buried in the announcements of AMD’s Financial Analyst Day were the new processor pricing that was announced for the AMD A-series desktop processors.
These suggested pricing changes will take effect on May 10th, 2015. AMD offers guidance of the Suggested Etail Price (SEP) in USD, final retail price is set by individual retailers.
The AMD A-series APU are designed as SoCs for DirectX 12 and AMD is touting its independent testing showed a 41 per cent framerate increase under DirectX 12. Additionally, using DirectX 12 the AMD A-series APU was able to demonstrate an incredible 511 per cent increase in performance per watt, the outfit pointed out.
The pricing is as follows:
| Model | TDP | Max DDR3 | CPU Cores | CPU Clock (Max/Base) | L2 Cache |
| AMD A8-7410 Quad-Core APU with AMD Radeon™ R5 Graphics | 12-25W | 1866 MHz | 4 | Up to 2.5GHz | 2MB |
| AMD A6-7310 Quad-Core APU with AMD Radeon™ R4 Graphics | 12-25W | 1600 MHz | 4 | Up to 2.4 GHz | 2MB |
| AMD A4-7210 Quad-Core APU with AMD Radeon™ R3 Graphics | 12-25W | 1600 MHz | 4 | Up to 2.2 GHz | 2MB |
| AMD E2-7110 APU with AMD Radeon™ Graphics | 12-15W | 1600 MHz | 4 | Up to 1.8 GHz | 2MB |
| AMD E1-7010 APU with AMD Radeon™ Graphics | 10W | 1333 MHz | 2 | Up to 1.5 GHz | 1MB |
| A-Series APU Model | Processor Turbo Frequency | Processor Graphics | Compute Cores | TDP/ Configurable TDP | Supported Features | Suggested Etail Price ($USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A10-7850K | 4.0GHz | RADEON™ R7 | 12 (4CPU + 8GPU) | 95W / 65W / 45W | FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features | $127 |
| A10-7800 | 3.9GHz | RADEON™ R7 | 12 (4CPU + 8GPU) | 65W / 45W Optimized | FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features | $127 |
| A10-7700K | 3.8GHz | RADEON™ R7 | 10 (4CPU + 6GPU) | 95W | FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features | $117 |
| A8-7650K | 3.8GHz | RADEON™ R7 | 10 (4CPU + 6GPU) | 95W | FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features | $95 |
| A8-7600 | 3.8GHz | RADEON™ R7 | 10 (4CPU + 6GPU) | 65W/ 45W Optimized | FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features | $85 |
| A6-7400K | 3.9GHz | RADEON™ R5 | 6 (2CPU + 4GPU) | 65W/ 45W Optimized | FreeSync, Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 2.0, AMD Mantle, HSA Features | $60 |
| A4-7300 | 4.0GHz | RADEON™ HD-8470D | N/A | 65W | Windows® 10 readiness, DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL™ 1.2 | $42 |
