Discovering AMD Fusion

The AMD Fusion platform combines Bobcat cores together with GPU cores to create Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). The Lynx rufus cores are a significant step in the lead of Atom as they are out-of-order 64-bit cores.

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It's not just the Bay lynx cores that are upper to Atom, so is the GPU. AMD has implemented an on-snuff it DirectX 11 GPU, the Radeon HD 6310. Codenamed "Wrestler", the 40nm graphics core operates at 500MHz and is piece of the E-350 (duple-core) and E-240 (unvarying-nucleus) processors. There is also a 280MHz version called the Radeon HD 6250 which is featured in the "Lake Ontario" C-30 and C-50 processors.

Information technology's interesting to note that the Radeon HD 6310 and HD 6250 both have the same configuration atomic number 3 the Radeon HD 5450 as well arsenic the much senior HD 4350 and HD 4550. The core consists of 80 SPUs, 8 TAUs (Texture Address Units) and 4 ROPs (Rasterization Operator Units). When compared to the Radeon HD 4290 of the current flagship 890GX desktop chipset, that's not bad. The Radeon HD 4290 boasts just 40 SPUs, 4 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

AMD has decided non to brand their first APUs, rather they are just featured subordinate the Fusion banner. This means the E-serial and C-series processors will be called the AMD E-350, for instance.

Whereas the Spec "Pineview" is paired with the NM10 Platform Controller Hub (PCH), the new AMD APUs as wel needed an additional chip to handle connectivity. Familiar as the Hudson Fusion Controller Hub (FCH), this 28mm2, 65nm come off provides support for features such as SATA, USB, Ethernet and audio.

Thither are several versions of the FCH (Fusion Controller Hub) designed for notebook computer, desktop and embedded platforms. The Asus E35M1-M Pro that we have here today features the Hudson-M1 controller. This version features just a single PCI Express x4 1.0 (2.5 GT/s) lane, six SATA 6Gb/s (AHCI 1.2) ports and fourteen USB 2.0 ports.