Monday, April 18th 2011
AMD C-60 Gets TurboCore to CPU and GPU
AMD is giving its C-series Fusion APUs for netbooks and embedded systems a feature update with its upcoming model, the C-60. The AMD C-60 will have the same default clock speed as the C-50, at 1.00 GHz, but features the AMD TurboCore technology, which can up clock speed to 1.3 GHz when the two cores are loaded. The embedded Radeon GPU also features GPU TurboCore, which boosts engine speed from 276 MHz to 400 MHz. The new dual-core C-60 does all this, while limiting itself to the 9W TDP. AMD will release the new C-60 APU in Q3, 2011.
Sources:
Macles, TFTS
18 Comments on AMD C-60 Gets TurboCore to CPU and GPU
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Just wish someone would put one in a netbook with a 10" screen, 2GB ddr3, and something other then Windows Starter..........:banghead:.......for less then $400 and I'd be in.
I don't think a software driver is reliable enough to overclock the Bobcats and the Cedar while maintaining the 9W TDP.
A ~10% overclock would be safe enough to keep within a tolerable margin of error (as we used to see in CCC's automatic overclock), but a 30% CPU and 44% GPU overclock is nothing to sneeze at. I wouldn't trust the relatively unreliable Windows to manage that.
I mean, I know that netbook manufacturers have been tight with intel for a while - they have definitely had the better solutions in most cases... but the c-50 seems like an excellent product (cheap, low power, high multimedia performance, on par CPU performance with the higher end dual core atoms) and I have seen it used in either 1 or two computers so far. I don't know what's holding people back... The E-350 has seen a better reception, but there's still only a handful of models that qualify as netbooks that use it. Quite frankly I saw the fusion platform release as a milestone in netbook computing - the first since the introduction of the atom... and no one's using it.
I know that the n4xx series chips cannot run HD(720p) video in a flash player on their own... am I the only one that thinks HD playback (and having a screen large enough to show 720p) matters in a netbook?
Not to mention that this is still another quarter away so (from this announcement) they have had probably a little short of 6 months to fix the bugs out of the APUs so they get a better yield. I would be surprised if turbo wasn't there from the beginning but just wasn't feasible because it was buggy, too hot, some combination of several problems that cause them to be inoperable, maybe even worse case kill the APU, etc.
Maybe someone can point out a month last year but my foggy memory wants to say that it wasn't too long after TSMC declared their buggy 40nm fixed that these were probably already (like Llano did at the beginning of the month) shipping to OEMs so they could have the E and C lines of APUs by CES. Remember it wasn't until the end of February (roughly in the US) that the scarcity of these APUs finally started being fixed. HP was the only OEM that had an AMD APU system available in the month of January. Acer showed up at the beginning of February with their netbook using the C series.
the whole architecture has a lot of promise with die shrinks too, wont be long till we have a quad core APU under 20w I'd imagine.
and get a result like this
We are back to HD 4350:roll:
Ion 2 clone, but little better...
I think it is the intimidating price. Regardless, I did buy one of those because, it was so tiny and cheap :roll: