QNAP Powers AMD APUs NAS Line

QNAP has unveiled a line of nas systems featuring AMD quad-cores. The processor is the AMD RX-421BD, an embedded quad-core APU that AMD introduced in 2015 and still has Excavator cores.

QNAP’s TVS-x73e series of NAS systems consists of the 473e, 673e and 873e, with space for four, six and eight 3.5″ HDDs or 2.5″ storage media respectively. The systems are built around the AMD RX-421BD, a quad-core clocked at 2.1GHz and burst to 3.4GHz. QNAP already has nas systems with newer Ryzen CPUs from AMD.

It is an apu based on the Carrizo architecture with support for ddr4 and with a Radeon 7 GCN GPU of the third generation. Thanks to the latter, the NAS systems can display images in 4k and hardware accelerate the transcoding of 4k video.

There is 4GB or 8GB DDR4 available, depending on the model, with the option to expand to 64GB. There are also two M2 slots for SATA SSDs and a duo of PCI-E slots for expansion with, for example, a 10Gbit/s network card or a card with USB 3.1 Gen 2. Finally, the NAS systems have two HDMI 1.4 b connections, four USB 3.0 ports and four Gigabit Ethernet connections. The three systems are available immediately, but the prices are not yet announced by the company when it is announced.