Tuesday, October 19th 2010
AMD Fusion APU Codenamed ''Llano'' Demonstrated at 6th Annual AMD TFE 2010
At the 6th Annual AMD Technical Forum & Exhibition (TFE) 2010, AMD today showcased for its ecosystem partners the first public demonstration of the forthcoming AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) codenamed "Llano", designed for notebook, ultrathin and desktop PCs. AMD demonstrated the accelerated single-chip processing muscle of Llano by simultaneously processing three separate compute-and graphics-intensive workloads.
"The serial and powerful parallel processing capability of the Llano APU has the potential to make OEMs and consumers re-think their computing experience," said Chris Cloran, corporate vice president and general manager, client division, AMD. "The experience potential of Llano is truly incredible, and the demos we showed today on stage provide a glimpse of what this processor is capable of delivering in sleek form factors with long battery life. Everything consumers love about their digital lifestyles today - social networking, gaming, consuming and creating media - can be enhanced with Llano, enabling a more interactive, vivid and immersive experience."
The Llano APU demo showed three compute-intensive workloads simultaneously on Microsoft Windows 7, including calculating the value of Pi to 32 million decimal places, and decoding HD video from a Blu-ray disc. Running concurrent to the CPU and HD video playback applications, Microsoft's nBody DirectCompute application is shown achieving around 30 GFLOPS (as reported in the application) a relative measure of the available capacity to post-process video during playback, play a DirectX11 game, or assist the CPU cores to accelerate a non-graphics application. The demonstration represents a preview of Llano's raw compute power enabling new levels of experience computing that AMD aims to bring to mainstream PC users in 2011.
Held annually in Taiwan, the AMD Technical Forum & Exhibition is an ecosystem partner event that focuses on addressing the world's most complex technology challenges, and spotlighting technology breakthroughs. Exhibitors span academia, hardware and software industries, fostering a healthy, open ecosystem for the AMD Fusion family of APUs.
"The serial and powerful parallel processing capability of the Llano APU has the potential to make OEMs and consumers re-think their computing experience," said Chris Cloran, corporate vice president and general manager, client division, AMD. "The experience potential of Llano is truly incredible, and the demos we showed today on stage provide a glimpse of what this processor is capable of delivering in sleek form factors with long battery life. Everything consumers love about their digital lifestyles today - social networking, gaming, consuming and creating media - can be enhanced with Llano, enabling a more interactive, vivid and immersive experience."
The Llano APU demo showed three compute-intensive workloads simultaneously on Microsoft Windows 7, including calculating the value of Pi to 32 million decimal places, and decoding HD video from a Blu-ray disc. Running concurrent to the CPU and HD video playback applications, Microsoft's nBody DirectCompute application is shown achieving around 30 GFLOPS (as reported in the application) a relative measure of the available capacity to post-process video during playback, play a DirectX11 game, or assist the CPU cores to accelerate a non-graphics application. The demonstration represents a preview of Llano's raw compute power enabling new levels of experience computing that AMD aims to bring to mainstream PC users in 2011.
Held annually in Taiwan, the AMD Technical Forum & Exhibition is an ecosystem partner event that focuses on addressing the world's most complex technology challenges, and spotlighting technology breakthroughs. Exhibitors span academia, hardware and software industries, fostering a healthy, open ecosystem for the AMD Fusion family of APUs.
26 Comments on AMD Fusion APU Codenamed ''Llano'' Demonstrated at 6th Annual AMD TFE 2010
first laptops and workstations.
Intel and amd will really squish nvidia out of a big market here... hopefully compotition in gpu market will be healthy.
games and applications will use it properly.
The next big leap in computing is contained within these designs, IMHO.I wouldn't say that EXACTLY, but to get rid of poor-performing IGPs, for sure.
It's all one step closer to a holodeck. ;)Yep, but it might take a different way of rendering to utilize it properly. To me Fusion chips are a start to this...
This is the future. At least now we will be able to save some money on water blocks :laugh:
Same for this chip, no updates needed to use the optimizations that are built in.
I even beleive they said it was so fast that there was just no way software could help, unless every signle game out there was patched...and because very many development houses from older games just don't exist any more, they had to change the hardware.
Now, Win7 is fine-grained enough (i think)that they can push slowdowns at the software level, IMHO, but I do NOT think that this would simply be a drop-in chip-type thing...there WILL need to be software hacks to get older stuff working right...they may already exist in the OS though(actually, I know that they do).
These chips are what have me really excited for future tech...I WANT THEM NAOW!!!:laugh:
Of course, to me, SandyBridge is just that..a silicon bridge to new tech, and won't be as good as some are expecting...but the following gen will be fantastic.
It wasn't due to the super duper performance increase, it was a timing issue that only effects systems that have set specs, like a Xbox, PS3, etc....... Thus the reason we can run the same game on multiple combination of CPU, GPU, audio, memory, and motherboards with different connectors and latencies.
Almost all their chipset business has gone away, and with the majority of market-share coming from midrange PC's with IGP or the like they will be losing this business soon as CPU's will have the Intel, or AMD brand GPU built in. So they will have a specialized market for discreet GPU's only, and I can tell you that for every one PC sold with a graphics card there are 10-15 sold with IGP. Imagine your market share dropping 80-90%.
They came up with this scheme to generate interest in their specialized market product, CUDA. It seems to be doing well for them, I hope it continues to do well. They are providing the competition to AMD that keeps us from paying another $599 for the high end single GPU card.