Monday, May 2nd 2011
AMD Llano Fusion APU to Feature Radeon HD 6550 Graphics
AMD's upcoming Llano line of accelerated processing units (APUs), to compete with Intel's Sandy Bridge LGA1155 processors, is said to embed what AMD will refer to as the Radeon HD 6550 graphics core. Unlike Sandy Bridge where a processor die is simply fused with a integrated graphics northbridge onto a single die, Llano will see the GPU part of the silicon integrated with the rest of the APU in many other levels, including assisting the x86 cores with serial processing loads.
Llano's embedded GPU carries the AMD Radeon SKU of HD 6550. It will feature on AMD's Fusion A8-3550 and A8-3550P APUs, is DirectX 11 compliant, has 400 stream processors, and a core clock speed of 594 MHz. It uses memory shared from the main memory, but in all likelihood, AMD might work on SidePort-based memory support. Further, the Radeon HD 6550 can work in tandem with discrete AMD Radeon HD 6570 and HD 6670 "Turks" based graphics cards in the same way as AMD's IGPs have been known to work with entry-level Radeon GPUs using Hybrid CrossFireX. When the HD 6550 iGPU is working in tandem with HD 6670 or HD 6570, the graphics hardware will be recognized as "Radeon HD 6690".
Source:
DonanimHaber
Llano's embedded GPU carries the AMD Radeon SKU of HD 6550. It will feature on AMD's Fusion A8-3550 and A8-3550P APUs, is DirectX 11 compliant, has 400 stream processors, and a core clock speed of 594 MHz. It uses memory shared from the main memory, but in all likelihood, AMD might work on SidePort-based memory support. Further, the Radeon HD 6550 can work in tandem with discrete AMD Radeon HD 6570 and HD 6670 "Turks" based graphics cards in the same way as AMD's IGPs have been known to work with entry-level Radeon GPUs using Hybrid CrossFireX. When the HD 6550 iGPU is working in tandem with HD 6670 or HD 6570, the graphics hardware will be recognized as "Radeon HD 6690".
34 Comments on AMD Llano Fusion APU to Feature Radeon HD 6550 Graphics
Think about it, in its current form it can play games (mainly on lower settings) but in a generation or two fusion APU's should be more than powerful enough for pretty much all mainstream gaming, no maxed settings on newer games but compare that to current on board gpu's that the majority use.
Fusion APU's and Intel's on chip GPU's are a great thing for pc gaming as more and more users will have the power to game.
gpu-z of 8800 GT shows 57 gb/sec
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6.4 gb/sec for hd6300, no matter if you put more shaders and all that in there you wont get more than 128 bit (as system memory) and you will not get more than 12gb/sec max on current stars arch if it havent been changed (phenom II derived)
even if it got same as LGA1366, LGa1155 and bulldozer which sits right under 30gb/sec at 1866mhz ddr3 its still going to be half of a 8800GT.
Unless it has sideport its going to be alot slower than 8800GT in terms of texture and AA performance.
You can probably play crysis with low textures and good quality on effects, shaders and so on.
I sincerely hope they put sideport memory on the motherboards, and in laptops to gain a good 50gb/sec which is easy at 128bit, 700 mhz gddr5 will do, system shared memory is not the way forward!
I'm sure they could put on 600mhz GDDR5 chips, thats probably chips they throw cause I have never seen GDDR5 chips that works at 600mhz.
A friend of mine have a GTX470, memory errors so clocked down to 500 mhz and he could play through the lan, but the performance hit was severe, dedicated cards have its memory bandwidth for a reason, 3870 had 60gb/sec for 320spyou dont have onboard on the motherboards with FM1 socket, no northbridge present, only crossfire with dedicated gpu HD6570 HD6550
Another thing they could bring back, pushing DTX again! Tri-Crossfire the 6550 with a couple 6570's ;)