Here’s the Brand New AMD Processor that Could Power Your Next Laptop

[JMH]

You didn't think AMD was going to let Intel get all the cool new processor attention with Ivy Bridge, did you? AMD's latest and greatest is now: Trinity.
It's runs fast, cool, efficiently, and packs some terrific graphical tricks.

http://gizmodo.com/5910303/heres-the-brand-new-amd-processor-that-could-power-your-next-laptop

 

[James7679]

Interesting.:r1: This sounds vaguely familiar. Some kind of heavy equipment name comes to mind. Was it dump truck? Crane? hmm, front-end loader? No, oh yeah, Bulldozer, which turned out to be a complete load of Bullspit! I will stand by the side of my Intel and Nvidia based products. All the hype in the world means nothing when the buyers remorse kicks in.:banghead:

 

[Britton30]

I agree James, until AMD puts the focus on CPU power as Intel has they will always be second rate. People who are interested in graphics performance will still buy a discrete GPU. But for a laptop where heat is a concern it may be an advantage.

 

[GZ]

AMD is on the right track here. With pure focus on CPU power, it cannot hope to win against Intel (unless Intel makes another big mistake or gets lazy again). Intel just has too many resources.

On the other hand, the enthusiast world relies way too heavily on benchmarks and third opinions. I cannot vouch for the FX series (Bulldozer) APUs because I haven't had the oportunity to play with one yet. But what I can tell you is that the Llano/Zacate (Fusion) APUs perform quite well. Although not "Enthusiast" status material... I have 2 systems based on the AMD Zacate E350 (Hudson M1) which is extremely low powered at only 18W. Although the line is aimed at the ultra-portable market it performs quite well. With only 2 cores at 1.6GHz and on-chip Radeon 6310 it performs admirably... The same is true for a few systems I built on the Llano desktop APU. Trinity is building off this technology, not Bulldozer.

AMD isn't going anywhere any time soon and they are sure to bring the most to the table because they can't afford to be "comfortable". It won't be long before Intel slips up and AMD takes the lead again (Remember Prescott???).