AMD recently officially announced the seventh generation of desktop APU, named Bristol Ridge, which has significantly improved its performance and energy efficiency compared with the previous generation of Carrizo. At the same time, it is confirmed that both the Zen processor and the new APU will use the new AM4 interface. Users who use the APU will have a much easier choice when they want to upgrade in the future than the current AM2 platform.

The seventh generation APU will have eight models, the highest end of which is A12-9800. It will be equipped with four cores and the main frequency is 3.8GHz. It will continue to use the excavator architecture. The GPU part uses Radeon R7 units and the TDP is 65W. The lowest end is A6-9500E, which is also equipped with four cores, and the base frequency is 3.0GHz. The GPU part uses Radeon R5 units, and the TDP is 35W. The released Bristol Ridge has a processor named Athlon X4 950, which is designed for 4-core 3.5GHz and TDP is 65W. AMD claims that the newly released APU has a 17% processing speed advantage over the Intel i5-6500, and its image performance is 99% higher than the core display performance of the Intel i5-6500. However, with AMD's consistent performance, the actual performance is still waiting for real machine testing.

In addition, AMD confirmed that both the Zen processor and the Bristol Ridge APU will use the new AM4 interface. All platforms of the AM4 interface will support native support of DDR4, USB 3.1, NVMe and SATA Express. AMD is expected to launch three chipsets with AM4 interface: AMD B350, AMD A320 and AMD X/B/A300.