Friday, February 3rd 2012
AMD Slips Out Trinity ULV 3DMark Performance
In a footnote of a slide detailing AMD's Trinity A6 APU for Ultrathin notebooks at the company's Financial Analyst Day event, the new chip's 3DMark performance was revealed. The company was talking about the 17W ULV (ultra-low voltage) variant of the "Trinity" APU in the slide, that's designed for compact notebooks. The 3DMark Vantage performance of the APU was measured to be 2,355 points, in the same test, an Intel Core i5-2537M ULV 17W "Sandy Bridge" processor scored 1,158 points. The AMD chip, hence, emerged with a 103% graphics performance lead.
The slide notes that with an assumed performance increase of 30% by the upcoming "Ivy Bridge" architecture, its 3DMark performance is projected to be 1,505 points. The 17W Trinity chip would still end up with a 56% performance lead. Moving on, AMD even revealed the performance of the high-performance A10 "Trinity" APU with 25W TDP, designed for slightly thicker notebooks. This chip scored 3,600 points in 3DMark, which would effectively make it 136% faster than Ivy Bridge at graphics.
As for CPU performance, it's noted that Intel will clearly have an edge with performance per core, and the upper hand with single-threaded applications, while Trinity could be competitive with multi-threaded applications, as its two-module/four-core APUs will be competitively priced to Intel's two-core/four-thread(HTT) ones. AMD has pulled the presentation off from the public page of AMD-FAD.
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VR-Zone
The slide notes that with an assumed performance increase of 30% by the upcoming "Ivy Bridge" architecture, its 3DMark performance is projected to be 1,505 points. The 17W Trinity chip would still end up with a 56% performance lead. Moving on, AMD even revealed the performance of the high-performance A10 "Trinity" APU with 25W TDP, designed for slightly thicker notebooks. This chip scored 3,600 points in 3DMark, which would effectively make it 136% faster than Ivy Bridge at graphics.
As for CPU performance, it's noted that Intel will clearly have an edge with performance per core, and the upper hand with single-threaded applications, while Trinity could be competitive with multi-threaded applications, as its two-module/four-core APUs will be competitively priced to Intel's two-core/four-thread(HTT) ones. AMD has pulled the presentation off from the public page of AMD-FAD.
107 Comments on AMD Slips Out Trinity ULV 3DMark Performance
Intel's Ultrabook tablets covers touch centeric Windows 8's Metro UI.You refuse to see Intel's road map and plans.
Intel Ivybridge "Ultrabooks" plan will cover both tablet PCs and ultra-thin devices.
There's a primary reason why AMD aimed for "17 watts" instead of AMD Ontario's "18 watts" i.e. "17 watts" marketing matches Intel Ultrabook form-factors.
Both CPUs are powerfull enough for Hi10 h.264 MKV playback i.e. good enough for my 1st gen Intel Core i7-740 in restricted dual core** mode.
**Windows' boot process can restrict CPU core availability i.e. to simulate a dual core Intel Core i5 with 4 threads.
Intel's roadmap is irrelevant to the scope of my discussion. Yes, they will be including tablet style devices in that class in the future, but the scope of my discussion never included those. The scope of my comments only ever referred to the current definition of ultrabook. I was pretty sure I made clear what devices I am referring to, and my needs for them. So, again, stop it. You are talking about something completely different than I am.
My needs in a tablet device are completely different than my needs in a standard notebook style device. Thus the entire reason I'm being very specific about what devices my comments were about.The less cpu percentage used for playback, the less battery used. Extra cpu power will do me some good as long as both products are in the same power consumption category. Thus the reason I said battery life is also important. If the AMD has significantly better battery life during the tasks I perform most, then it would get the nomination despite having less raw cpu power. I haven't seen much on that topic though, so can't really say one way or the other which platform performs better in that area.