14 DAY TRIAL // With just a few more days to go until AMD makes official the Llano accelerated processing units, pictures of three such mobile chips have made their appearance on the Web.
The images were originally posted on a Chinese forum by a user who managed to get its hand on a couple of A6-3400M, A4-3300M and E2-3000M test sample chips.
These are refined versions of the engineering samples APUs that were sent out by AMD to its partners and, according to the users that posted these pictures, their performance, power consumption and temperatures are better that those of the first ES Llano processors.
As far as their specs are concerned, the A4-3400M is the most powerful of the four APUs as it features four processing cores clocked at 1.4GHz (2.3GHz in Turbo mode) as well as a 320 shader Radeon HD 6520G on-die GPU.
From a performance point of view, this is followed by the A4-3300M which uses a dual-core design and comes clocked at 1.9GHz (2.5GHz max in Turbo Core mode).
This chip is also equipped with an integrated GPU, but this time the HD 6480G core packs only 240 stream processors.
Finally, the last chip to be pictured also includes two processing cores and a Radeon 6000-series on-dire GPU, but the latter only sports 160 stream processors, while the CPU's operating speed has been cut back to 1.8GHz (2.4GHz with Turbo).
Llano APUs are based on the K10.5+/Husky x86 architecture and, outside of the on-die graphics, they also feature an integrated dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, a PCI Express controller, up to 4MB of cache and select processors pack AMD's Turbo Core 2.0 dynamic acceleration technology.
Computer manufacturers can choose to pair the APU with AMD A70 or A75 chipsets, which both offer similar features outside of native USB 3.0 support which is only found in the A75 FCH.
According to a previous report, the mobile version of the Llano APUs is expected to launch on June 1, while the desktop edition of the CPU is slated for a June 14 release. (via Ozeros)
