Wednesday, June 2nd 2010
AMD Demonstrates Graphics Processing Power of Llano Fusion APUs
AMD demonstrated its first Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit), which is a "fusion" between a processor and a graphics processor. The first such processor in the works is based on the 32 nm silicon fabrication technology, codenamed Llano, and fuses a quad-core processor with a DirectX 11 compliant GPU. AMD's Rick Bergman showed off a wafer of the Llano APUs, but it didn't stop there. Rick surprised the press when he went on to claim that the APU can power Aliens vs. Predator in DirectX 11 mode, with a reasonable level of detail, which was demonstrated. Find a video of the same at the source.
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77 Comments on AMD Demonstrates Graphics Processing Power of Llano Fusion APUs
Want specs specs specs, if it got 320 shaders its gonna be very very good!
2. all in one or in the style of I5 661?
3. How much?
4. Crossfire?
Yes.
An entire range, up to high-end.
Dunno.
me like this long time
The i5 have the CPU core physically divided from the GPU core...does this one have it too?
I've got to look into this.
And HA!, I knew it! New socket!
OFC they have to dump AM3, NB will be built in. and a gpu, chipsets are incompatible with handling those things.
All is one DIE. not like I5, Intel will also be ready, alltho most likely a tad later and alot slower(we all know intel on the gpu performance side)
That is good news! The fact that it's only one die is good for cooling purposes and price.
The AM3 socket have 938 pins that is 2 less pins than AM2(+) that have 940.
Great to see AMD finally putting their backbone in something though :toast: