Family 16h

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Family 16h
The die from the Jaguar APU used in the PlayStation 4
Overview
Introduced2013
Process Node28nm, except 16nm in some game consoles
Microarchitectures
Chronology
PredecessorFamily 15h
SuccessorZen APUs

Family 16h (also known as fam16h, or ambiguously as fam16) is a family of AMD microprocessors corresponding to the Jaguar and Puma microarchitectures. All Family 16h processors were APUs, combining a CPU and a "fast-by-integrated-standards" GPU on a single die. Outside the PC hardware space, it is notable for use in the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 families of eighth-generation game consoles.

"16h" (16-hexadecimal) is most correctly pronounced as "one-sixteen six", but most people say "sixteen‑aitch".

Like other AMD family names, 16h ("16 hexadecimal") is a mostly-arbitrary, somewhat-sequential (new processor families receive unused higher family numbers) number, returned by the x86 CPUID instruction as a "Family number", and commonly written in hexadecimal. 16 in hexadecimal corresponds to the number 22 in decimal, meaning that while "Family 22" would also be a valid, if confusing, name for these CPUs, "Family 16" could also refer to Family 10h.

Overview

Jaguar Puma
Kabini Mullins
Models 00h-0Fh 30h-3Fh
Release Date 2013/05 2014/04
AGESA Open Source Closed Source
BKDG 48751 52740
coreboot Yes Yes
Microcode ROM Undocumented
Microcode Patches Unencrypted TBD
PSP No Online

For other CPU families besides Family 16h, see CPU Families Overview

coreboot Compatible Motherboards

Jaguar

Puma

See Also