AMD Llano to offer 3x graphics performance of Sandy Bridge?
An internal leaked document reveal AMD's Llano APU promises 3x the graphics performance of Intel's Sandy Bridge integrated graphics, according to xbitlabs:
Advanced Micro Devices pins a lot of hopes onto performance of the integrated graphics cores of code-named Llano A-series accelerated processing units (APUs). Besides, the company believes that other performance-boosting technologies will make its A-series APUs even more competitive on the market.
According to AMD internal documents seen by X-bit labs, which describe performance of AMD's new products, AMD A8-3550 APU (quad-core, 4MB cache, 400 stream processors, Radeon HD 6550 graphics core at 594MHz) delivers three times higher performance in 3DMark Vantage test compared to Intel Core i5-2300 (quad-core, 2.80GHz/3.10GHz clock-speed, 6MB cache, Intel HD graphics core at 850MHz/1100MHz): P3335 versus P1007 marks. Besides offering more performance, the graphics core from AMD also supports DirectX 11 capabilities, whereas Intel's graphics engine features only DirectX 10.1.
AMD Llano clocked to 5 GHz - 07/25/2011 10:49 AM
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AMD Llano APU specifications unveiled - 06/21/2011 10:39 AM
OCW published details about AMD's upcoming A8, A6 and A4 APUs. These chips are expected to be released in early July 2011. First the A8 series. There are two models in A8 series, namely the A8-3850 r...
Biostar teases upcoming AMD Llano motherboards - 06/21/2011 10:36 AM
Biostar revealed a couple of details on their upcoming motherboards for AMD's Llano APU. These boards will ship in July. AMD
AMD Llano has Radeon HD 6550 graphics - 05/03/2011 09:13 AM
AMD's pending Llano processors will get a very nice embedded GPU, for the integrated market segment that is. Llano's embedded GPU carries the AMD Radeon SKU of HD 6550 as TechPowerUp reports: It will ...
AMD Llano performance compared with Sandy Bridge (video) - 04/27/2011 09:44 AM
Check out this leaked performance figures of AMD's Llano processor.