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To: wvbuild 06 who wrote (265553)	1/3/2011 3:32:58 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Surprised no one posted here some excerpts from the MAXIMUM PC lab tests of AMD's Fusion chips. This came out almost 2 months ago Fusion is AMD's Atom Smasher Posted 11/08/10 at 10:07:42 PM by Gordon Mah Ung They won’t set the world on fire but Fusion should out gun equivalent Atom parts. But let’s be clear, Fusion is not about the x86 performance. It’s about graphics. That’s where AMD put the money shot in its first Fusion chip. With its third-generation unified video decoder core and support for H.264, DivX, Xvid, DX11 capability and 80 “nano-cores,” the first Fusion chips will have roughly the graphics performance of a Radeon HD 5450. The memory controller in the platform is a single-channel memory controller capable of supporting 8GB of DDR3/1066 RAM. That may not seem like much to a person used to Radeon HD 5970’s, but remember, we’re talking about a mobile chip that is incredibly tiny. The x86 cores and GPU along with the integrated memory controller, integrated PCI-E and other platform interfaces measures at roughly 75mm2 on TSMC’s 40nm process technology. Intel’s current D-series of Atom’s measure out at 87mm2 on the company’s 45nm process technology. Two sets of PCI-E interfaces are available: Four PCI-E 1.0 lanes off the APU and another four off of the Hudson southbridge. Anyone who has ever used an Atom – even the current generation Atoms, can attest to the chip’s sluggish performance. And that’s at x86. Toggle over to anything graphics related on an Atom and the space time continuum will literally start running backwards because it’s that slow. To be fair to Atom, Intel’s graphics have always acted more like anti-accelerators. That’s not so with Fusion. We’re prohibited from disclosing raw numbers right now but we can say that it’s no Atom or even Arrandale in graphics performance. You can actually play some fairly modern games – if you’re open to dropping the resolution a bit. maximumpc.com They go on to say that COD Modern Warfare 2 is even playable at typical low-end notebook resolution of 1280x768. Looks to me that Intel will need far-more-expensive Sandy Bridge >200mm chips or discrete graphics to compete with the 75mm Fusion in notebooks. And AMD will take a major share of the sub $600 market. Petz

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