Wednesday, January 11th 2012
AMD Demonstrates Trinity APU, Its Own Thunderbolt-Alternative
AMD's next-generation accelerated processing unit (APU), codenamed "Trinity", was demonstrated at CES. Trinity will make up AMD's 2012 A-Series APU lineup, and will be designed for mainstream-thru-performance notebooks, and mainstream desktops (different standards for different form-factors). Pictured below is what its notebook-specific BGA package looks like. The package has an exposed rectangular die, with a stabilizer frame around it (like with GPUs). Notebooks' cooling assembly heat pipes make direct contact with the die. Trinity packs two Piledriver modules (an evolution of Bulldozer), and DirectX 11.1 AMD Radeon HD 7000M graphics (notebook APU) or HD 7000D (desktop APU).
Shown to the CES crowd was a mind-boggling demo. The public were first shown what appeared to be an ATX desktop connected to two monitors, one monitor running a DIRT 3 DirectX 11 game demo at high-quality settings, and another screeen revealing the APU to be running GPU-accelerated video transcoding. No discrete graphics was used, it's just the embedded HD 7000 at play/work. If that alone didn't raise a few eyebrows, the AMD representative removed the lid of the ATX desktop case to which those two monitors were connected, to reveal a 14-inch laptop inside doing all the work. And there's more - the laptop's main screen wasn't idle, it was running a high-definition video playback. Whatever synthetic benchmarks end up telling about Trinity, its real world performance does impress!
You have got to watch the video after the break!
At a discrete meeting with select journalists at a backroom, AMD also talked about its competitive technology to Intel's Thunderbolt, which it's referring to as "Lightning Bolt" (+1 for originality). This interface will use the same mini-DP port design as Thunderbolt. It will have the bandwidth to drive up to four HD displays, and multiple USB 3.0 devices, and will have a hub cost of under $40.
Source:
HotHardware
Shown to the CES crowd was a mind-boggling demo. The public were first shown what appeared to be an ATX desktop connected to two monitors, one monitor running a DIRT 3 DirectX 11 game demo at high-quality settings, and another screeen revealing the APU to be running GPU-accelerated video transcoding. No discrete graphics was used, it's just the embedded HD 7000 at play/work. If that alone didn't raise a few eyebrows, the AMD representative removed the lid of the ATX desktop case to which those two monitors were connected, to reveal a 14-inch laptop inside doing all the work. And there's more - the laptop's main screen wasn't idle, it was running a high-definition video playback. Whatever synthetic benchmarks end up telling about Trinity, its real world performance does impress!
At a discrete meeting with select journalists at a backroom, AMD also talked about its competitive technology to Intel's Thunderbolt, which it's referring to as "Lightning Bolt" (+1 for originality). This interface will use the same mini-DP port design as Thunderbolt. It will have the bandwidth to drive up to four HD displays, and multiple USB 3.0 devices, and will have a hub cost of under $40.
77 Comments on AMD Demonstrates Trinity APU, Its Own Thunderbolt-Alternative
17W TDP
4 Cores @ 1.4-1.5GHz
6 GPU Cores(384 SPs) @ 400MHz
(Pretty much the A8-3500M but with Piledriver and VLIW4 Cores)
So saying that is like saying dolphins are smarter than dolphins.
Thanks for the info - didn't know that. Here in Bulgaria dolphins are becoming menace since they are endangered species but they keep breeding and no natural enemy in the Black Sea... So no more fish for us... :cry:
imho and to be honest whenever i see a dual core single gfx chip like this being demoed i emidiately think along the lines of wheres this binned ie mid chip batch bottom or top ie if this is as i implied a 4 core dual gfx APU with half disabled , i know its an ES but their not gona make a special that special it would allways be along the lines to the finished product and surely AMD are wise enough to allow for binning of all chips and looking at lano they did this by making every one 4 core dual gfx to start with then binning them according to what dosnt work hence this APU in full fat = xbox7weva to me simps
AMD's lano and this platform provide much better value and use prophile for a couch surfer then any intel mobile shitter , and intels lapys(i do mean only the intel IGP ones) are only for word processing in my eyes , that sort it for you frick
People barely know what AMD is. I just sold my HD6770 and, when the guy received it, asked me what was the AMD disc for as he had an Intel CPU. He didn't even know that AMD owns the Radeon brand now.
Now that's anecdotal and doesn't count as real data but you get my point.
On the other hand, seeing how small AMD's manufacturing capacities are (compared to Intel) maybe they don't really need to advertise. Just see how often the FX CPUs go out of stock. It's very clear that, even if they wanted to, AMD just can't sell as many chips as Intel.
looking back upon the news of recent years marketing isnt the only way intel have assisted the sale of their chips dude and earlier i did question the ernestness of intel manageing to get any ceder trail or atom crap in any netbook over what arm or amd can put in it seems a bit ""what??"" to me, all my opinions i accept
and that guy was just clueless, ive watched my mum wave a mouse round the air mate ,to control the onscreen shizzle, i left her to it for 5 mins cos i was dyein on the floor
my point is i buy what will do the best job for what i want to do, do people not have that much common sense these days they have to sheep after an intel or an nvidia or an amd for that matter , read more learn more buy less(shit):p
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I wouldn't say it is better but at least it isn't trying to seduce me
I'd be firing my advertiser's ASAP. Touch my bottom?
What the...:laugh:.
I like my Llano notebook...but not that much.
I read this thread through...frankly, I'm hoping that either AMD or Intel come out with an APU/CPU w/IGP that can handle my two 24" monitors with good speed where I don't need a discrete graphics card.
The business units I use in the office..I'd like to shrink them down to the Wesena ITX2 size. I'll be watching Ivy Bridge/Trinity with great enthusiasm. We obviously don't game on these, but do need some graphical power for charting. Right now we're primarily using NVS 295's and NVS 600's with great success, so maybe one of these new cpu's might just do it? If not this round, perhaps next, but I'm looking at these APU's pretty darn hard after owning a Llano notebook.
LC
P.S. Have a buddy with an i7, discrete graphics and a hard drive in a Dell, they can run hot as hell. I told him to at least get an SSD, my palms/fingers we're on the edge of getting burnt when checking his notebook out. The Llano with an SSD in an HP runs cool as ice.
Just watching the video again, the airflow in the case has got to be horrible (a side fan can't be helping too much since it's blowing on the keyboard) and has to make you wonder how much they got the heat issue of BD under control?
32nm SOI HKMG w/eSiGe overal has better gate leakage and better channel leakage than 45nm SOI
But, Channel leakage is relatively bad...
Other than that the problem with Bulldozer isn't heat but power consumption
Performance would be great if power consumption wasn't 2x that of the i7 3820 and i7 2600/2700K
Heat scales with power consumption though
17.5W TDP would be about 12W-23W power consumption
I forgot what way Power Consumption and TDP Works but x86-64 usually on average have 30% discrepancy between TDP and power consumption
out of this world .... tablets to replace notebooks ? eat this!
"Running an HD game, transcoding, playing HD video"
"ok"
facepalm
On topic though, this looks hella good! Gone are the days when playing on an IGP instantly turns you to a laughing stock
youtu.be/U6vH9OXHUJs