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.
TOO Slow!
And not that absolute majority of users would use CPUs that much. Unless I encode video (in which case I don't really care if it finishes at 2am or 6am) my CPU is idling most of the time or waiting for graphic card to spit out textures.
And not that paying hundreds of bucks for motherboard (hidden CPU price increase) should be a norm.
At price of 3 buldozers, eh? With 350$ motherboards that turn into "too old" in 3-6 month?
Sandy Bridge is only like $25 more than the Thuban, and rightfully so (as it's FASTER, so it's PRICED MORE)
And a decent Z68 mobo runs you $150, not $350.
No one really knows the performance of Bulldozer. In either case AMD will price it accordingly to its performance. The highest end has a rumored leak of $320 which would make it faster than the Intel Core i7-2600K. We'll see how much of it is true next month when it comes out.
We need to hear where in the line up this falls.
This is 100% false. You need to learn some hardware history.
Lol where is your source that say it will be faster then i7-2600k and priced that low. If bulldozer was really faster then i7-2600k amd would had cry so loud like they did with fusion.
They have new fusion APUs that only chew up 5W TDP.
Bulldozer is Fusion Xo