AMD Fusion

AMD Fusion is the business name for a alternation of APUs by AMD. There are two flavors of Fusion currently available, one with its CPU argumentation based on the Bobcat amount and the added its CPU argumentation based on the 10h core. In both cases the GPU argumentation is HD6xxx, which itself is based on the adaptable alternative of the Radeon HD 5xxx Series. Fusion was appear in 2006 and has been in development back then. The final architecture is the artefact of the alliance amid AMD and ATI, accumulation accepted processor beheading as able-bodied as 3D geometry processing and added functions of avant-garde GPUs (like GPGPU computation) into a distinct die.[9] This technology was apparent to the accepted accessible in January 2011 at CES. In the aforementioned year AMD alien Bulldozer for Socket AM3+ and for the server market

Processing power

The accessible anamnesis bandwidth of single-controller DDR3-1066, which both the CPU and the GPU accept to share, is commensurable to the accessible anamnesis bandwidth of stand-alone cartoon cards:

Bandwidth of single-controller DDR3-1066 interconnect bus

Comparison of AMD cartoon processing units

Comparison of Nvidia cartoon processing units

Comparison of Intel cartoon processing units

Brazos (Ultra-portable)

AMD Ultrathin Belvedere was alien on January 5, 2011, as the fourth AMD adaptable belvedere targeting the ultra-portable anthology market. It appearance the 40 nm AMD Ontario (a 9-watt APU for netbooks and baby anatomy agency desktops and devices) and Zacate (an 18-watt TDP APU for ultrathin, mainstream, and amount notebooks as able-bodied as desktops and all-in-ones) APUs. Both low-power APU versions affection two Bobcat x86 cores and absolutely supports DirectX11, DirectCompute (Microsoft programming interface for GPU computing) and OpenCL (cross-platform programming interface accepted for multi-core x86 and accelerated GPU computing). Both additionally accommodate UVD committed accouterments dispatch for HD video including 1080p resolutions.[15][16][17][18] This belvedere consists of:

Sabine (Mobile)

All models support: SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V

All models abutment 1.35 V DDR3L-1333 memory, in accession to approved 1.5 V DDR3 anamnesis specified.

adaptable platform

All models abutment DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.0 and OpenCL 1.1

All models affection the UNB/MC Bus interface

All models do not affection double-precision FP

All models affection Angle absolute anisotropic filtering, UVD3, & Eyefinity capabilities, acknowledging up to 3 outputs.

1 Unified Shaders (Vertex shader/Geometry shader/Pixel shader) : Texture mapping assemblage : Render Output unit

2 TDP defined for AMD advertence designs, includes CPU ability consumption. Actual TDP of retail articles may vary.

Competition

The absolute adversary of the Intel Atom processor band is the AMD Fusion C- and E-series. The C-series (C-30: distinct core, C-50: bifold cores) has a TDP (9 W) agnate to the Atom, the college clocked E-series (E-240: distinct core, E-350: bifold core) comes with a TDP of 18 Watts what corresponds added to an Atom including a committed GPU (e.g. ION2, ATI 5430). The processors accommodate a distinct or bifold amount 64-bit CPU with out-of-order execution, DDR3 anamnesis ambassador and an 80-core Radeon GPU. The achievement for amateur is decidedly more good for the E-series - up to 326.5% better, although neither of the platforms is able-bodied ill-fitted for gaming

Mainboard System RAM sharing memory

Bios >> IGX Configuration >> UMA Frame Absorber Admeasurement Frame absorber admeasurement is the absolute bulk of arrangement anamnesis allocated alone for the onboard cartoon controller. MS-DOS, for example, will use alone this anamnesis for display. Options are: Auto (default), 256MB, 512MB, 1024 MB