Monday, May 16th 2011
AMD's Fastest Mobile Fusion Processor Detailed
One of AMD's design goals for its Fusion architecture must have been its application in mobile processors, where AMD isn't the brightest in terms of energy efficiency. The company's fastest product for the notebook platform is based on the Llano silicon, will release in 2011, and is a quad-core APU. Enter the AMD A8-3530MX.
Built on the 32 nm process with FS1 package, the A8-3530MX is an accelerated processing unit (APU), it combines a quad-core processor with a powerful GPU and northbridge component. With a default clock speed of 1.90 GHz and TurboCore speed of 2.60 GHz, the A8-3530MX packs 4 MB of L2 cache, and a dual-channel DDR3-1600 MHz memory controller, that also supports DDR3L-1333 MHz.
The GPU component is the DirectX 11 compliant AMD Radeon HD 6620G, with 400 stream processors, and engine clock speed of 444 MHz. To drive it, the northbridge component is entirely integrated into the APU, which packs a PCI-Express 2.0 hub to support discrete graphics. Despite so much machinery, the top-of-the-line chip maintains a TDP of 45W (common for notebook quad-core chips).
The AMD A8-3530MX will be backed by a single-chip chipset, which isn't much more than a southbridge (just like PCH on the Intel platform). The platform will launch with AMD A60M chipset, and later the company will introduce A70M, which packs native USB 3.0 support. That's not to say that A60M-based notebooks won't feature USB 3.0, they'll just use third-party controllers like Intel-platform notebooks do.
Source:
DonanimHaber
Built on the 32 nm process with FS1 package, the A8-3530MX is an accelerated processing unit (APU), it combines a quad-core processor with a powerful GPU and northbridge component. With a default clock speed of 1.90 GHz and TurboCore speed of 2.60 GHz, the A8-3530MX packs 4 MB of L2 cache, and a dual-channel DDR3-1600 MHz memory controller, that also supports DDR3L-1333 MHz.
The GPU component is the DirectX 11 compliant AMD Radeon HD 6620G, with 400 stream processors, and engine clock speed of 444 MHz. To drive it, the northbridge component is entirely integrated into the APU, which packs a PCI-Express 2.0 hub to support discrete graphics. Despite so much machinery, the top-of-the-line chip maintains a TDP of 45W (common for notebook quad-core chips).
The AMD A8-3530MX will be backed by a single-chip chipset, which isn't much more than a southbridge (just like PCH on the Intel platform). The platform will launch with AMD A60M chipset, and later the company will introduce A70M, which packs native USB 3.0 support. That's not to say that A60M-based notebooks won't feature USB 3.0, they'll just use third-party controllers like Intel-platform notebooks do.
32 Comments on AMD's Fastest Mobile Fusion Processor Detailed
I will still hold my doubts about DonanimHaber being a trusted source of consistent, reliable information. case in point this whole article is now wrong if this one is right.
Seems like they are just guessing based on a few leaked slides. I think I will wait when Btarunr post information with no sources. That will let me know someone from AMD told him directly or at a press event what is really going down.
I'm aware that the DDR3-1333 RAM doesn't make even a noticeable benefit on Brazos, but bear in mind that DDR3-1066 @ 7-7-7 vs DDR3-1333 @ 9-9-9 is practically zilch anyway. No one has compared with DDR3-1333 @ 7-7-7, let alone DDR3-1600 @ 7-7-7 (which'll be supported by Lllano).
As for the low clockspeed, bear in mind this is the quad-core. While the title says "AMD's Fastest Mobile Fusion Processor Detailed", I'd wager that we'll see the dual-core (maybe even tri-core) clocked higher than this, and remain in the same TDP envelope.
forget the 32 nm.. the battle is not started yet.... guess who will gonna strike first at 22 nm? it gonna be Huge.
Things are about to become more about architecture.
Not really surprised Windows 8 is prepping for ARM and RISC. Really should have moved to RISC a long time ago instead of trying to get more and more out of CISC.
cisc is going no where, microsoft wants the andriod and iphone app market. They see exploding growth in mobile devices, but when you must handle big heavy workloads, cisc sort of has the marekt cornered.
AMD needs to advertise the stock clock as being the turbo clock, and the 1.9 Ghz actual clock as being a feature to save power. A few TV ads would also be a blessing....a campaign that should honestly have started already.
Price is a good think to market in this economy, but AMD needs to reach the people with that information in an effective manner. Just being the cheapest Laptop is NOT going to work across several price markets.
And I still think this "news" is a load because it conflicts with DH's own information.
P.S. the 22 nm shrink isn't whats going to be the focus of the Intel chips next year. 3-D gates are. We will not be hitting a wall because these chips will introduce a new production method with is own walls that have not been explored.
It looks very good to me. Just mentioning "quad core" in a laptop is quite special.
And there have been quad core laptops for years, it is not special. A power efficient one that uses real cores would be, especially since this will be in the mid-range market and not the high end gamer laptops.
Moreover, look at newegg:
quad core laptops available: 86 (core i7) + 11 (Phenom II X4) total of 97 laptops
dual core laptops available: 134 (Core i3), 233 (Core i5), 76 (Core 2 Duo) and most of the rest AMD like 50 to 100 more. Total of 400~500 laptops.
Of course Llano just makes the whole thing even more special to me.
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I don't think AMD has anything like Intel's HT.
This is: Northbrigde (link to SB and Pci-e bridge) GPU, Cpu, IMC, everything in one chip!
how small can you now make a performing HD6000 series with quad mobo ? :) mini-itx performance without any addin cards!