AMD gave in its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show a sneak preview of Trinity, the successor of Llano processors, which the company last year introduced. In a demonstration, the emphasis is especially on the graphics performance is laid.
With a Trinity laptop left AMD to see what the new apu of the company in-house. Although no firm performance figures were given, underlined a spokesman that the cpu in Trinity is approximately 25% better performance than Llano, while the gpu is even up to 50 percent better performance should drop.
Just like the Llano-apus are the Trinity apus at 32nm produced, but the new apu features a number of improvements. The cpu cores in Trinity are based on the Piledriver architecture, successor to Bulldozer, and the apu got a tdp of just 17W. The gpu in Trinity is based on the 7000 series gpu’s.
For the demonstration had a notebook-apu three screens at the same time control. On one screen was Dirt 3 in DirectX 11 mode played on a second screen was video converted, and on the laptop was a video played. The laptop had seemingly little trouble with this hefty tax, which is an AMD Trinity is well under way it seems. For the introduction, halfway through this year, it is expected, will, without doubt, more details above the water.
