14 DAY TRIAL // AMD’s Senior PR Manage Phil Hughes has recently posted a picture of AMD’s first shipment of “Trinity” and “Brazos 2.0” CPUs, on AMD’s official blog.
“Trinity” is AMD’s not-so-secret weapon against Intel’s HD4000 and especially against Nvidia’s new GeForce 620M GPU. From a meeting we had with Nvidia last evening, we think that AMD’s iGPU in “Trinity” will likely overpower Nvidia’s lowest-end mobile Kepler GPU.
While the 600M series are performing wonderfully and are very efficient, even if they’ve managed to get so many design wins, AMD’s “Trinity” will attack the low cost part of the mobile discrete GPU market and it will do some significant damage.
Sure Nvidia won’t be bothered too much as Intel’s 90% of the mobile market is enough for them, but AMD’s 3D performance slides will likely look very good when AMD’s iGPU equals or beats Nvidia’s lower mobile Kepler GPU.
These AMD boxes filled with Trinity and Brazos 2.0 CPU are heading towards ASUSTEK COMPUTER and will probably power a new batch of laptops , netbooks and, why not, nettops and tablets.
“The 2012 AMD A-Series APU helps improve on virtually every aspect of our current A-Series APUs while doubling the performance-per-watt over our previous generation. It enables Brilliant HD, amazing productivity and accelerated applications across a spectrum of form factors – including ultrathin and mainstream notebooks, embedded devices and desktops,” said Phil Hughes.
He also confirms that “Brazos 2.0” have been shipping since last quarter.
We're happy to see AMD's "Trinity" is ready, but we're hoping for more notebook manufacturers to take it seriously at least for their mainstream offerings as a "Trinity" based 17.3" or 15" notebook, with or without an aditional discrete video card, is a great sell for 80% of the laptop buyers out there.
Now that the power consumption is so low and that the iGPU is so powerful, we think that AMD's "Trinity" should find itself a great competitor in the affordable, under 2 Kg, market segment.