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AMD Unveils Elite A-Series APUs With Enhanced Performance, Improved Efficiency

Posted by Soulskill on from the warning:-graphic-content dept.

MojoKid writes "AMD has just announced a new family of Elite A-Series APUs for mobile applications, based on the architecture codenamed 'Richland.' These new APUs build upon last year's 'Trinity' architecture, by improving graphics and compute performance, enhancing power efficiency through the implementation of a new 'Hybrid Boost' mode which leverages on-die thermal sensors, and offering AMD-optimized applications meant to improve the user experience. AMD is unveiling a new visual identity as well, with updated logos and clearer language, in a bid to enhance the brand. At the top of the product stack now is the AMD A10-5750M, a 35 Watt, 3.5GHz quad-core processor with integrated Radeon HD 8650G graphics, 4MB of L2 cache and a DDR3-1866 capable memory interface. The low-end is comprised of dual-cores with Radeon HD 8400G series GPUs and a DDR3-1600 memory interface."

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  1. Re:On-die thermal sensors by PhunkySchtuff · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, back in 2006, Intel had thermal sensors. AMD didn't... Here were the results:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxSqCdT7xPY
    The Intel chip was a Pentium 4 and I'm pretty sure they weren't the first ones with thermal sensors...

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  2. Re:AMD even still relevant? by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Lulz. Yes, if you have 50 threads that each increment a counter then AMD _pwns_. Real world shit? Not so much.

  3. major CPU struggles by slashmydots · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I know it's been a long hard struggle over the last decade or more for chip companies but I'm glad they're getting past that and just putting on the label WHAT THE DAMN FUCKING CHIP IS! I'm sick of havink to boot up a laptop just to see what the fuck "AMD Vision" means. It's a real crap shoot between E1 APUs and Phenom x4 chips. If it has a fucking A6 on it, put a fucking A6 on the logo! Not "intel inside" or "powered by xxxxx" or "centrino" or just "AMD" or nothing or a green AMD logo instead of red, or just "pentium" but sometimes the hologram means G-series and sometimes the hologram means P6000 series or "Core Duo" where it might actually be a single core chip. Ugh. Is it really that fucking hard?