11/21/2011 09:39:00 PM
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In the first part of 2012, AMD is expected to release its next-generation APUs based on the Bulldozer-derived Trinity architecture and the first internal company estimates detailing the performance of these chips were just leaked online.
The AMD slides made their appearance in the most recent DonanimHaber video bulletin and were captured by the TechPowerUp publication.
While the quality of the images is lacking, they still manage to give us a pretty good idea about the performance of AMD's A8, A6 and A4 series of APUs based on the Trinity architecture when compared to their current Llano counterparts.
In terms of visual performance, judged by running the 3DMark Vantage benchmark, AMD's next-gen APUs seem to be on average 32% faster than the chips they are supposed to replace, while in terms of general performance (using PCMark Vantage) the result is a much more disappointing 13.8%.
The strongest point of the new architecture however seems to be its GPGPU performance as the AMD benchmarks show this can deliver a massive 56.3% performance increase, on average.
AMD's next-generation APU combines either two or four processing cores based on the Bulldozer architecture with a VLIW4 GPU derived from the Cayman graphics used inside the Radeon HD 6900 series.
The computing cores will go by the name of Piledriver and, much like the current Llano APUs, lack any sort of Level 3 cache memory as AMD wanted to increase the die area available to the on-board GPU.
In addition, the chip will also bring support for a series of new instructions sets introduced with the Bulldozer architecture, such as AVX and AES-NI, as well as support for DDR3-2133 memory.
Outside of the improved performance, the Trinity built-in GPU will also bring a new Video Compression Engine and support for AMD's EyeFinity technology.
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