14 DAY TRIAL // AMD seems to be extremely confident in the graphics capabilities of their upcoming Llano accelerated processing units (APUs) as a recently leaked presentation slide states that the soon-to-be-released A-Series processors can provide up to 325% faster graphics performance than comparable Intel CPUs.
This claim is based on some 3DMark 11 and 3DMark Vantage internal tests which compare three of AMD's upcoming APUs with three Intel processors from the Core i3 and Core i5 range.
Only one of the Intel CPUs tested, the Core i5-2500K, features the HD 3000 iGPU while the other two chips, the Core i3-2100 and core i5-2300, packs the HD 2000 graphics core.
On the AMD side, the A8-3850 has the most powerful on-board GPU, that packs 400 stream processors, while the two other solutions, the A6-3650 and the A4-3400 feature 320 SP and 160 SP, respectively.
All three of these integrated graphics cores are faster in 3DMark Vantage than Intel's HD 3000 GPU.
However, what is interesting to note is that the Vantage results from AMD's presentation slide seem to be consistent with the leaked Llano 3DMark scores which appeared online yesterday.
Llano APUs are based on the K10.5+/Husky x86 architecture and outside of the on-die graphics 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 Donanim Haber)
