Earlier this February, AMD presented a press update for Q1 2016 highlighting the new processors, thermal solutions, motherboards, etc. to their desktop lineup. The first slide (seen below) shows these updates starting with 3 new processors -- two new APUs (A10-7860K, A6-7470k) and the Athlon X4 845 CPU.

On the second side you will note that the Athlon X4 845 CPU uses ?Evacuator? Cores with a base frequency of 3.5 GHz and a Turbo mode clock of 3.8 GHZ, but the PCI Express 3.0 support is limited to x8. Then on the third slide we learn more about some features of the ?Evacuator? core: its improved caches, better branch prediction, new instruction support and support for modern standby low power modes (for longer battery life).

Referring back to the first slide, one of the items listed is the new AMD thermal solutions for the A10, A8 and Athlon X4 processor lineups. Note that the thermal solution shown in the slide is the Wraith cooler, and is not part of the new Athlon X4 845 CPU (at the time of the original printing it only came with the FX 8370). The 845 CPU comes with one of two new "near-silent" 95W thermal solutions, distinguished by a red-colored 70mm fan.