Apr 27, 2011 13:36 GMT  ·  By

The various reports regarding Llano's alleged support for a special Hybrid CrossFireX mode that allowed users to combine the power of a discrete graphics card with that of the on-die GPU have just been confirmed by some internal AMD documents that made their way in the hands of few hardware websites.

This capability will be available on the future Lynx platform, and requires an AMD Northern Islands series standalone video card in order to work.

When this is paired together with the on-die graphics core, the system is able to take advantage of the processing power available in both GPUs, which leads to an important speed boost in most games and GPGPU applications.

In addition, such a setup would allow for more display outputs to be used simultaneously.

Outside of this new CossFire technology, the AMD A75 chipset that is used by desktop Llano processors also packs support for the Turbo Core 2.0 technology as well as SATA 6.0 Gbps and USB 3.0.

The processing cores used inside the Llano APUs are called Husky and are based on the K10.5+ architecture that is also used for Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs.

The quad-core Llano desktop APUs will be paired together with a BeaverCreek on-die GPU that can pack 320 or 400 stream processors and the dual-core chips with the WinterPark graphics core that packs 160 stream processors.

All of the chips will, however, feature an integrated dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, a PCI Express 2.0 controller, 4MB of shared L2 cache and some models even include support AMD's Turbo Core technology.

The initial launch, that is planed to take place later this quarter, will include at least four quad-core and one dual-core desktop chip as well as a series of mobile parts. (via SweClockers)