Leaked Slides Reveal Details on Intel Atom 'Bay Trail-T' Platform

[Cristian_25H]

As confirmed by some freshly-leaked slides, 2014 will see Intel bring some new guns to the fight with ARM, including Bay Trail-T, the successor of Clover Trail and the first Atom platform to take advantage of the 22 nm manufacturing process.

The star of Bay Trail-T is the Valleyview SoC which will feature four (out-of-order) Silvermont cores clocked at up to 2.1 GHz (delivering up to 60% higher performance than the Clover Trail chip), a two-channel LPDDR3 memory controller, an upgraded video decoder, support for resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 pixels, and a new GPU boasting DirectX 11 capabilities and offering up to a 3x performance boost over Clover Trail.

Devices based on Bay Trail-T are expected to have a standby battery life of 20 days and would last for 11 hours of continuous video playback, before needing to be charged.



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[dj-electric]

wow, that's A LOT of power that Bay Trail-T is packing. Very impressive...

 

[xenocide]

wow, that's A LOT of power that Bay Trail-T is packing. Very impressive...

Intel doesn't fuck around.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

Intel doesn't fuck around.

It only fucks up.

 

[blibba]

Why not enable HT on the quad-core part?

 

[dj-electric]

Heat, much of it

 

[blibba]

Heat, much of it

HT doesn't increase heat output - look at 3770K vs. 3570K, 2600K vs 2500K.

 

[CounterZeus]

a chip with HT enabled will *possibly* produce more heat, because more of the CPU might be used. Still, max heat output should be the same...

 

[RejZoR]

Ever since AMD started churning out AMD Fusion chips, most of the Atom CPU's are meh. I wonder how these stack up against latest AMD APU's.

 

[brandonwh64]

Ever since AMD started churning out AMD Fusion chips, most of the Atom CPU's are meh. I wonder how these stack up against latest AMD APU's.

CPU side probably better but the GPU side probably not as always.

 

[dj-electric]

HT doesn't increase heat output - look at 3770K vs. 3570K, 2600K vs 2500K.

That is exactly what it does
I have all 4, tested a lot of times, HTs are much hotter @ load, naturally.
2 CPUs can be under a certain TDP, that doesn't mean they consume the same and produce the same amount of heat

 

[Naito]

Mmm.... Out of Order execution

May make for some decent tablets sitting between the ARM-based Windows RT and the ultra-low voltage Core i processor-based variants. Good midpoint for battery and performance.

 

[de.das.dude]

Ever since AMD started churning out AMD Fusion chips, most of the Atom CPU's are meh. I wonder how these stack up against latest AMD APU's.

GPU side will still be meh. its intel afterall.

 

[Completely Bonkers]

Intel needs to bring OoO Atom to the market already. Atom is a lackluster boring underperformer. And they just CUT the best Atom they had... the D2700 because they priced it too high / performance.

LOL WUT? 32-bit only OS coverage? For 2014/2015/2016?!! (based on 3 years average commissioning/implementation life). And what is "compute continuum"? Sounds like an indie band.

 

[Frick]

That is exactly what it does
I have all 4, tested a lot of times, HTs are much hotter @ load, naturally.
2 CPUs can be under a certain TDP, that doesn't mean they consume the same and produce the same amount of heat

A lot of early low power Atoms have/had HT as well, as well as modern ones. So not a whole lot of extra heat there.

Intel needs to bring OoO Atom to the market already. Atom is a lackluster boring underperformer. And they just CUT the best Atom they had... the D2700 because they priced it too high / performance.

Didn't they get OoO a while ago?

EDIT: Nope it seems not. I read about it a while ago but that was just confirmation they're getting there.

 

[dieterd]

they need 22nm atoms right now not after 2 years... or they think that ARM's will snooze for 2 years?

 

[OneCool]

HT doesn't increase heat output - look at 3770K vs. 3570K, 2600K vs 2500K.

Yes it does and it always has.

 

[Wile E]

About time they bring out of order to the atoms.

 

[cdawall]

Still lacks VTx, still only 32 bit, still going to buy an APU.

 

[Frick]

Still lacks VTx, still only 32 bit, still going to buy an APU.

I don't see how VTx helps Atom tbh, and there have always been 64 bit versions. Wikipedia says this though:

Intel states the Atom supports 64-bit operation only "with a processor, chipset, BIOS" that all support Intel 64. Those Atom vendor systems not supporting all of these cannot enable Intel 64.

 

[cdawall]

I don't see how VTx helps Atom tbh, and there have always been 64 bit versions. Wikipedia says this though:

Mini-servers, VM's, tons of uses for VTx not everyone wants to lug around a 15-17" laptop when they can do what they need on a 10.6" one. Good that they have 64 bit that was getting a bit sad. Intel crippled the holy hell out of the old models.

 

[v12dock]

Mini-servers, VM's, tons of uses for VTx not everyone wants to lug around a 15-17" laptop when they can do what they need on a 10.6" one. Good that they have 64 bit that was getting a bit sad. Intel crippled the holy hell out of the old models.

Virtualize on an Atom? VTx seems worthless until at least the i3s

 

[cdawall]

Virtualize on an Atom? VTx seems worthless until at least the i3s

Why mini servers work for small companies. For a server to work right you need vt.

 

[Completely Bonkers]

Atom Desktop can do 64 bit
Atom Mobile can't

 

[TRWOV]

OoO 64bit and 4 cores until 2014... meh... I'll keep buying Bobcats. Thank you.