AMD Preps Fusion-based Quad-core A8-3530MX
Fusion to flex some muscles.
Turkish site Donanimhaber has been the source of multiple other leaks, and now the site has another one about an upcoming AMD Fusion APU.
A Fusion chip bound for notebooks is coded A8-3530MX, which is supposedly built on the Sabine platform and will pack 4MB of L2 cache. The fastest variant will run at 1.9 GHz but can TurboCore up to 2.6 GHz. Memory support will be in place for 1333MHz and 1600 MHz dual-channel DDR3.
The attraction to Fusion is its integrated graphics, which is said to be a DirectX 11-capable Radeon HD 6620G running at 444 MHz. It will have 400 shaders, 128-bit memory bus and even support Crossfire with compatible external GPUs.
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But will it beat the intel line up?
Have they worked out some cunning way with the chipset etc to get a discrete graphics card to be completely powered off if the onboard graphics can handle it all, but kick in (preferably with cross-fire or similar) if a graphics heavy game/application or other processing thing that can use a GPU needs doing?
If they could get ahead on power efficiency / scalability like that it'd make them more impressive.
Have they worked out some cunning way with the chipset etc to get a discrete graphics card to be completely powered off if the onboard graphics can handle it all, but kick in (preferably with cross-fire or similar) if a graphics heavy game/application or other processing thing that can use a GPU needs doing?If they could get ahead on power efficiency / scalability like that it'd make them more impressive.
I'm not sure, but Fusion isn't meant to be used with a discrete graphics card, remember? The Bulldozer CPU's will be pure CPU's for use in tandem with a discrete graphics card, Fusion is meant to be used without an IGP.
Before you cry horror, early data on the Fusion IGP would indicate they could play lower end games very well and handle video playback smoothly. The IGP is as powerful as a 5570, very respectable for an IGP and well above SB.
For short: Fusion without discrete card for everyday computing, Bulldozer with discrete card for high performance notebooks/desktops.
For short: Fusion without discrete card for everyday computing, Bulldozer with discrete card for high performance notebooks/desktops.
Fair - but what about if someone gets a capable (Fusion) computer and then in a few years time wants to upgrade cheaply by bunging in a graphics card (ok it might be as cheap to upgrade a CPU, given AMD is quite nice with its upgrade path (other than me being on socket 939 still...))? It seems quite a shame if a moderately capable graphics capability on the chip is then just wasted.
It's less of an issue with historic things where the included graphics have been awful (I'm thinking Intel mainly here) to the extent that you would cry in horror as you suggest I shouldn't with Fusion. That said, even there it's a wasted opportunity for saving heat and electricity (assuming an awful onboard graphics chip is more efficient than a discrete card that's not being taxed very heavily).