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
Llano is interesting but if the cores are indeed based mostly on Phenom, Intel will destroy them on CPU performance. Even old Nehalem based Core chips were doing that let alone say Ivy Bridge. And the Llano IGP is going to be very bandwidth limited and slow compared to all but the worst discrete GPUs. To me it's a new generation of budget IGP platform but I'm not really excited by it because frankly it will be a barely adequate gaming platform and current IGPs do video aspects fine already.
every processor that approach the mips power of x86, invariably ends up with the same power draw. Its just a fact of the design.
each has its place, and the windows 8 port to arm will be a slow boat to china vrs x86 clock for clock.
Arm is only popular becuase its cheap.
Hypertransport is a cpu interconnet and other high speed interconnect for high speed data buss, similar to DMa in a few conceptual ways.
cpu power is abit overrated, phenom II's are fine, 1.9ghz is abit low, if they managed 2.1ghz it'd be very good! (turbo 2.7ghz)
amd is on the way to more balanced computing, and I think Intel will have to aswell, when they get better graphics.
Kirsna will have 30gb/sec bandwidth that will be quite good, that is fusion A 2012 series.
if you have sideport with 70gb/sec 128bit GDDR5 with shared 28gb/sec on krisna it will be quite good for 2012 apu performance.
it all depends on sideport or not. either way it'll bash intels and nvidia's low end solutions.
HT = "Hyper Transport"
Solved. Reminds me of the little punks who mistakenly spread annoying rumors back in 2005; "Xb0x 36ty has no HD!!!111!1". They meant "HDD", but their stupid error resulted in a lot of misinformed people.