AMD Compares Llano and Sandy Bridge in Video
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AMD hopes to inform and sway with this video.
Sandy Bridge is the new big dog in the consumer computing processor space – or is it? In terms of certain benchmarks, it is, but AMD feels that graphics have a big part to play too. With software supporting more GPU acceleration, there's certainly a valid point.
AMD has just released a video showing its Llano APU system going head to head against an Intel Sandy Bridge CPU. We know which side has the better graphics part integrated, but how does that translate into real-world performance? This is what AMD is trying to show everyone, but keep in mind that these are specific conditions.
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Oh boy! let the war commence!
Until.. the desktop parts are available, then we'll proceed with the desktop war.
Oh boy! let the war commence!
Until.. the desktop parts are available, then we'll proceed with the desktop war.
lets just hopes bulldozer can follow suit
I should probably point this out, AMD's CPU in this video is just a Pheonom II with AMD's GPU on the same die.
That's why if you had a Phenom with the same clocks and cores as this, they would both perform almost exactly the same in a CPU workload.
whats your point ?
Believe they're both mobile CPUs.
It basically shows AMD beating Intel in the graphics department, this time via APU. This, of course, is nothing new for AMD/ATi and sort of expected. Great for laptops as it means you don't need a discrete GPU in a lappy anymore to achieve decent framerates... unless it's a gaming laptop or desktop
It does show the need of having integrated graphics where laptops could easily benefit from them while not suffering alongside power and performance. Intel has had integrated graphics for a while, but they hardly improve overall and it's not the best experiance. This tries to show you that the APU allows you to play games, render, stream videos, and more then what the intel graphics normally give while trying to be cost effective.