http://www.techpower...r-Detailed.html
As a self-proclaimed (and most likely many of you will attest to this) loyal user of ethically sold products, I have of course been following AMD's budget/laptop line of processors. Initial benchmarks are looking pretty decent so far for the cost, and the current debate I am currently wondering about; VLIW4 as initially stated or GCN as is being talked about now? This is the first time I'd read 384 cores, which to me wouldn't make sense with VLIW4 as I thought you could pack more cores into less space with VLIW4 than VLIW5. I may be wrong. Someone please correct me if I am, however to me it sounds like if the core count is correct it probably is GCN.
And then there is the new mesh being implemented in AMD's processors to either improve clock speeds by 10% or reduce power consumption by 10%. And given that before this AMD was stating a 10-15% IPC increase over bulldozer to the piledriver core... which means we could see a 20% increase in performance overall.
http://www.engadget....ant-clock-mesh/
So Radeon HD 7660 level integrated graphics (desktop level, not mobile. This is 7750ish level mobile) on a chip which either runs 4 threads at 3.8ghz, or 2 at 4.2ghz, and has both it's CPU and GPU unlocked, with 10-15ish% IPC increase over Llano.
Then it should support according to AMD RAM speed of 2133mhz with it.
Sooo.... with it being VLIW4 or GCN... rebranded last-gen VLIW5 cards wouldn't work with it in hybrid X-fire by all accounts... And given the 65xx graphics A6 and A8 worked with the 6670... perhaps the A10 will x-fire with the 77xx cards? That is another thing making me think AMD will run GCN, that is of course if they decide to continue supporting the hybrid x-fire.
Everyone else's thoughts?
Also, confirmation for FM2 not being compatible with FM1, and FM2 boards being released in June;
http://www.techpower...ve-in-June.html
Also given this, I think I'll be getting an Asrock Motherboard should I go Trinity (which I probably will- at least mobile. Depends.) http://www.techpower...5-Pro4-MVP.html
Edited by Vulpesveritas, 08 March 2012 - 12:49 AM.