14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung has just expanded its notebook lineup with a new model, the 300V5, that is designed around AMD's A-Series accelerated processing units, based on the Llano architecture, which pair together either two or four processing cores with a fast DirectX 11 integrated graphics core.
The 300V5 is a Series 3 notebook, the designation used by Samsung for its line of mainstream laptops, and it includes a 15.6-inch display with a resolution of 1366x768 pixels and 400 nits brightness.
This is packed inside a simple and stylish chassis that makes use of an elegant brushed aluminum finish, while the processing power is provided by an A8-3510 APU.
The AMD chip includes four processing cores with a base clock of 1.8GHz, that can be increased up to 2.5GHz thanks to AMD's Turbo Core technology, 4MB of Level 2 cache memory and an integrated graphics controller.
The on-board GPU is known as the Radeon HD 6620G and it packs 400 shader units clocked at 444MHz.
Samsung has decided to pair the integrated graphics core with a Radeon HD 6470M discrete card with 1GB of DDR3 dedicated memory in a dual-GPU configuration, to improve the graphics performance of the notebook.
As far as storage is concerned, in the model spotted by Notebook Italia this task is handled by a 5400RPM hard drive with a capacity of 640GB, which was paired with 4GB of DDR-1333 system memory.
The rest of the features list includes a 1.3 Megapixel HD camera with noise-canceling microphone, D-Sub and HDMI video outputs, a multi-format memory card reader, a Super Multi DVD dual-layer burner as well as the standard Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity.
When unplugged from the power outlet, the Samsung 300V5 relies on a 6-cell 48Wh battery for feeding its internal components. The notebook is already on sale and its price tag is set around the 500€ mark.