14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices will launch its Beema (2W TDP) and Mullins (10W – 25W TDP) accelerated processing units sometime in the first quarter of this year. Apparently, they’ll be better than Intel Bay Trail.
I’ve written about Bay Trail before, and how it’s divided into Atom, Celeron and Pentium units, for tablets, laptops and 2-in-1 devices, as well as HTPCs.
AMD’s Beema and Mullins chips will target the same areas, and while AMD did not detail the specs, it did say that the graphics performance will be 250% better (28nm-based GCN cores), and that the x86 cores won’t lag behind Intel’s chips anymore.
“Mullins and Beema are really targeted at the low power APU space. […] What you will see is that on graphics performance, it is substantially better. We’re talking about 250% better than the comparable Bay Trail products. What is different is on the compute performance, where we had traditionally been not as strong, we see significant performance improvements,” said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of global business units at AMD.
The deal breaker will be whether or not AMD’s APUs support Google Android, since Intel Bay Trail does.