#Kaveri Philippines

AMD kicked the 2014 off by unveiling the fourth generation of their desktop APU line called Kaveri. With the arrival of Kaveri, however, AMD has made respectable strides to balance the performance between its Steamroller-based CPU and, in the case of the A10-7850K, its integrated R7 Series GPU. This gives birth to the three core feature of Kaveri, HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture), hUMA (Heterogeneous Unified Memory Architecture) and hQ (Heterogeneous Queueing). Apart from improving the coherence between the CPU and GPU, AMD also revamped the Kaveri APUs’ ability to handle Audio and Video tasks by equipping it TrueAudio found on other GCN-based GPUs and Sony PlayStation 4, as well as the latest iteration of Video Codec Engine (VCE 2.0) and Unified Video Decoder (UVD 4) technologies. Meanwhile, VCE 2 and UVD 4 are integrated into Kaveri APUs to improve its capability to handle video encoding/decoding and add support for both H.265 and HEVC formats, as well as AMD Picture Perfect. In addition to this, Kaveri APUs supports decoding for VC 1 codec, not to mention support for H.264 encoding and encoding with improved error efficiency and additional support for YUV444 color space. Rounding up the list of Kaveri’s features is AMD’s low-level API called Mantle which promises to boost a GCN-based GPU’s performance by up to 45% on supported games (Battlefield 4) compared to DirectX 11. Read more in our articles including "AMD A10-7850K Review" and "TECNO POVA Curve 2 5G Review".