Socket FP3

Socket FP3
Type µBGA
Chip form factors ?
Contacts unknown
Processors mobile APU products (Kaveri)

This article is part of the CPU socket series

The Socket FP3 or µBGA-? is a CPU socket for Notebooks that was released in June 2014 by AMD with its mobility APU products codenamed Kaveri.

"Kaveri"-branded ULV products combine Steamroller with Crystal Series (GCN), UVD 4.2 and VCE 2 video acceleration, AMD TrueAudio audio acceleration and AMD Eyefinity-based multi-monitor support of up to two non-DisplayPort- or up to four DisplayPort monitors.

All PCIe links are capable of supporting PCIe 2.x data rates. In addition, the Gfx link is capable of supporting PCIe 3.x data rate. The FP3 package supports two different voltage levels on the VDDP rail. At the 1.05 V nominal setting, the Gfx link can support PCI Express 3.x data rate, while at the 0.95 V setting, the maximum data rate supported by the Gfx link is PCI Express 2.x[1]

Its desktop counterpart is Socket FM2+.

Feature overview

The entire AMD Accelerated Processing Unit lines and some of their features
Brand Brazos
(low power)
Llano Trinity Richland Kabini & Temash
(low power)
Kaveri Beema & Mullins
(low power)
Carrizo Carrizo-L
(low power)
Released Jan 2011 Aug 2011 Oct 2012 2013 May 2013 Jan 2014 Q2 2014 2015 2015
Fab (nm) TSMC 40 nm GlobalFoundries 32 nm SOI 28 28 28 28 28
APU Socket FT1 FM1
FS1
FM2
FS1+
FP2
AM1
FT3
FM2+
FP3
FT3b TBA TBA
CPU cores Bobcat AMD 10h Piledriver Jaguar Steamroller Puma Excavator Puma+[2]
3D engine1 80:8:4 400:20:8 384:24:6 384:24:6 128:8:4 512:32:8 128:8:4 TBA TBA
TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) Graphics Core Next (Mantle, HSA)
IOMMUv1 IOMMUv2 IOMMUv1[3] TBA TBA
Unified Video Decoder UVD 3 UVD 4 UVD 4.2 TBA TBA
Video Codec Engine N/A VCE 1.0 VCE 2.0 TBA TBA
TrueAudio N/A Yes[4] N/A[3] TBA TBA
Max. № of displays2 2 2–3 2–4 2 2–4 2 TBA TBA
Direct Rendering Manager/
Mesa 3D driver[5][6]
Yes[6] WiP[7] WiP[8]

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