AMD to Demonstrate Next Generation PC Experience Powered by AMD Fusion ''Zacate'' APU

btarunr · Sep 10, 2010

Next week in San Francisco, AMD will unveil the first North America public demonstrations of its AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) codenamed "Zacate," a new dual-core, 18-watt TDP processor containing discrete-level graphics capabilities on die and designed to dramatically improve the user's PC experience. Targeting value and mainstream notebooks and desktops, "Zacate" APU-based platforms bring many of the vivid digital computing experiences once reserved for high-end PCs into the opening price points of the mainstream segment.

AMD will conduct demonstrations of the experience consumers can expect to see early in 2011 from a broad range of mainstream notebook and desktop PCs based on the AMD Fusion APU codenamed "Zacate", including:

Full HD streaming online video, showcasing the versatility of the "Zacate" APU-based platform to handle the most demanding multimedia tasks
Immersive online gaming with high image-quality settings, demonstrating the DirectX 11-compliant "Zacate" APU-based platform
Preview of accelerated Internet browsing, showing how "Zacate" APU-based platforms support the future of GPU-enabled web browsing today and how these platforms perform side-by-side against currently available AMD- and Intel processor-based notebooks

The event will take place on Monday, September 13 through Wednesday, September 15, 2010, in San Francisco, CA, led by senior AMD executives and engineers responsible for AMD Fusion APUs.

Throughout the week of September 13, 2010, AMD executives will provide frequent blog posts at blogs.amd.com on the company's demonstrations as well as commentary on new developments in the CPU, GPU and APU markets. The first two updates cover the consumer PC market and the software developer ecosystem.

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NdMk2o1o · Sep 10, 2010

18 watt TDP :eek:

wow thats some serious energy efficiency :rockout:

awesome HTPC chip

n-ster · Sep 10, 2010

18W TDP is probably for laptops only

WarEagleAU · Sep 10, 2010

IS this what they are putting in notebooks/netbooks or mobile phones? Dude, imagine these in the next generation of smart phoneS!!!!!

MKmods · Sep 10, 2010

My Lego comp runs in the mid 20's watt range using an intel Atom 330 dual 1.6.

This would be really cool to compare real life performance to.

Hayder_Master · Sep 10, 2010

WOW, i can run that CPU with AAA battery's

mastrdrver · Sep 11, 2010

n-ster said:
18W TDP is probably for laptops only

WarEagleAU said:
IS this what they are putting in notebooks/netbooks or mobile phones? Dude, imagine these in the next generation of smart phoneS!!!!!

The 18W TDP version will be in ultra portables and net tops. The 8W is for netbooks and lower.

MKmods said:
My Lego comp runs in the mid 20's watt range using an intel Atom 330 dual 1.6.

This would be really cool to compare real life performance to.

This is going to make Atom looks like a P3. Its going to be bad. The 18W should have basically a 5450 on die.

erocker · Sep 11, 2010

mastrdrver said:
This is going to make Atom looks like a P3. Its going to be bad. The 18W should have basically a 5450 on die.

Man, the possibilities! A gaming netbook perhaps? I'm pretty excited to see this stuff!

btarunr · Sep 11, 2010

Netbook variant is only 9W.

WarEagleAU said:
Dude, imagine these in the next generation of smart phoneS!!!!!

Smartphone processors don't exceed a couple of Watts. You definitely can't run a smartphone with a 18W/9W processor. A tablet, maybe.

PVTCaboose1337 · Sep 11, 2010

erocker said:
Man, the possibilities! A gaming netbook perhaps? I'm pretty excited to see this stuff!

A gaming netbook? Dream on! I'll believe it when I see it, just like netbooks running 720p video smoothly.

bear jesus · Sep 11, 2010

PVTCaboose1337 said:
A gaming netbook? Dream on! I'll believe it when I see it, just like netbooks running 720p video smoothly.

I admit i would hope for a gaming able netbook in about 2 generations after this

mastrdrver · Sep 11, 2010

PVTCaboose1337 said:
A gaming netbook? Dream on! I'll believe it when I see it, just like netbooks running 720p video smoothly.

bear jesus said:
I admit i would hope for a gaming able netbook in about 2 generations after this

Remember this?

That "low power Fusion APU" was an Ontario running that demo.

Sure it isn't 5770 but for an 8-18W part that will go against Atom, that's pretty impressive.

Mussels · Sep 11, 2010

i think they should have stuck with "fusion accelerated processor" aka, FAP

these will finally allow us to have netbooks that can handle flash/H264 content properly. (ION makes a good effort, but thats more nettop, than netbook)

bear jesus · Sep 11, 2010

Mussels said:
i think they should have stuck with "fusion accelerated processor" aka, FAP

they really should have stuck with it

Atom_Anti · Sep 11, 2010

Looking forward to seeing the demonstartion :toast:

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JATownes · Sep 11, 2010

Mussels said:
i think they should have stuck with "fusion accelerated processor" aka, FAP

MKmods · Sep 11, 2010

mastrdrver said:
This is going to make Atom looks like a P3. Its going to be bad. The 18W should have basically a 5450 on die.

cant wait to see them.

rav · Sep 12, 2010

ZACATE is ATOM SMASHER!

Zacate is "ATOM SMASHER"

"An Atom 330+nVidia ion combo is able to beat the new CPUs both in terms of Windows 7 performance and 3DMark ’03 tests. In other words, the D510 and the D410 are ahead of their older brothers.

In terms of power consumption, the new Atoms pull in 33W and 26W at peak and idle, respectively. This is lesser than the already frugal 40-45W consumed by the Atom 330+945GC pair.

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2009/12/13...ming-intel-atom-cpus-d510-vs-d410-tested-out/

Trigger911 · Sep 12, 2010

JATownes said:
http://img.techpowerup.org/100911/AMD pr0n.jpg

lol i see some is fappin to it hahaha :rockout:

p3ngwin · Sep 13, 2010

btarunr said:
Netbook variant is only 9W.

Smartphone processors don't exceed a couple of Watts. You definitely can't run a smartphone with a 18W/9W processor. A tablet, maybe.

it's even less than that, most smartphone have the processor less than ~400mw.

it's not a mandated limit, simply an "emergent" limit that has grown to become something like Moore's Law, whereby manufacturers have naturally come to settle on competing around this mark.

so no, there will be nothing above 0.5 watt let alone above 1watt in smartphones/PDA's.

mastrdrver · Sep 14, 2010

Youtube:
AMD demonstrates applications on up coming Zacate.
AMD Zacate will accelerate HTML5 games in IE9

B3D forum

Kantastic · Sep 14, 2010

Damn that thing is small...

Melvis · Sep 14, 2010

Id like to see this used in lets say a new eee PC? Then i would want one.

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