Thursday, January 12th 2012
AMD Trinity APU Pictured in its Three Package Options
At CES, AMD is grabbing some eyeballs with a fascinating real-world capability demo of the AMD "Trinity" accelerated processing unit. At the same booth, AMD displayed the Trinity silicon in three different packages, for three different form-factors. The first one (to the left), also pictured in the earlier article, is a compact FP2 BGA (ball-grid array) package, designed for ultra-compact notebooks, ultrabooks, etc.
The second one (center) is the FS1r2 uPGA package for mainstream notebooks with slightly relaxed space and board footprint constraints. Unlike the FP2 BGA package, the FS1r2 uPGA is socketed, with extremely tiny pins. The FS1r2 uPGA is significantly bigger than FP2 BGA. The third, more familiar-looking package is the FM2, for desktops. FM2 is an updated version of FM1, on which current Llano A-series desktop APUs are based. Unfortunately, FM1 and FM2 are not compatible in any way. Learn more about the FM2 package in our older article detailing it, here.
The second one (center) is the FS1r2 uPGA package for mainstream notebooks with slightly relaxed space and board footprint constraints. Unlike the FP2 BGA package, the FS1r2 uPGA is socketed, with extremely tiny pins. The FS1r2 uPGA is significantly bigger than FP2 BGA. The third, more familiar-looking package is the FM2, for desktops. FM2 is an updated version of FM1, on which current Llano A-series desktop APUs are based. Unfortunately, FM1 and FM2 are not compatible in any way. Learn more about the FM2 package in our older article detailing it, here.
41 Comments on AMD Trinity APU Pictured in its Three Package Options
I knew AMD had an ace up its sleeve! :D
If FM2 is the Piledriver/Bulldozer Gen 2 Socket, cant wait to see it in action and maybe even a Dual FX Platform.
I was waiting for AMD to hit the ultrathin market with their APUs, if the performance & price are good, I'll consider buying one.
I still suspect FM2 will be the HPD/Mainstream depending on which chipset, APU/CPU and video card you select. I think reason AM3+ is sticking around is for upgrade paths for those adopted it which I like considering It really sucks those who adopted 1366/1156 got shafted with upgrade path...
ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-EventDetails&EventId=4203026
QuBit you better be there!!
Good show nontheless time will tell.
the real question is did they improve the cpu part or only the gpu part
if they didnt improve the cpu than its not much of a "must buy" for the desktop users
only for laptop users
3870K is stock 3.0GHz
4 x 4 x 3.0GHz = 48 GFlops x 1.25 = 60GFlops
60 GFlops = 16 x Z GHz
--- 16 = 3.75GHz
So, A8-58(or 9)70K will be 3.8GHz
I like how I can just find an image these days and slap it into one of my posts and it pretty much explains everything for me instead of going to some white paper....and copy and pastinian
(It was so difficulty for Bulldozer, AMD <3s Trinity a lot more than Bulldozer)
In the CPU segment, they can't hope to compete toe-to-toe with Intel.
In the GPU segment, they are competing toe-to-toe with nVidia, and successfully.
In the APU segment, they have no competition. And Intel can't come and steal AMD's cheese in that market.
So yeah, pushing the APUs seems to me like an extremely smart move on their part.