AMD’s 2nd Gen APU’s to go up against Intel’s Ivy Bridge

AMD Unveils 2nd Gen APU’s Codename Trinity

AMD unveiled their second generation Accelerated Processing Units for  Notebooks, Ultrabooks, Normal PC’s and All-in-one desktops. The new APUs, Codenamed “Trinity”, were improvement from ground-up over the first generation accomplishing double performance per wattage.

AMD’s Trinity will not directly compete with Ivy Bridge, as it was not designed for the performance segment. Trinity was made to target the mobile market where features, low power usage, and integrated graphics are the standard. It will present an useful alternative for ultrabooks and Budget Desktops.

The new Trinity architecture features AMD Piledriver CPU core using 3rd generation Turbo Core technology which adjusts power between CPU and GPU according to the needs. This technology helps boosting the CPU core clock to 3.2GHz. It also boasts a DDR3 dual channel memory controller, AMD HD Media Accelerator, unified northbridgeand four CPU cores with 2MB L2 cache each.

This APU has Radeon HD 7000 inbuilt graphics which provides more than 56 percent improved performance over the previous generation. Acoording to AMD, Laptops featuring these APUs will have a battery life of up to 12 hours.

AMD Trinity APU models released for Normal notebooks -

• A10-4600M
• A8-4500M
• A6-4400M

These all have a 35W TDP, varying in CPU cores and clocking.

A10-4655M quad-core @ 2.0GHz with a 25W TDP and A6-4455M dual-core @ 2.1GHz with 17W TDP are designed for Ultrabooks.

The trinity APU’s for Desktops will be available around mid 2012.

Technical Specification

AMD A-Series APU’s For Notebooks
MODEL	GPU	TDP	CPU CORES	CPU CLOCK	GPU CORES	GPU CLOCK	L2 CACHE	DDR3 SUPPORT
A10-4600M	HD 7660G	35W	4	3.2 Ghz	384	686 Mhz	4 MB	DDR3-1600 DDR3L-1600 DDR3U-1333
A8-4500M	HD 7640G	35W	4	2.8 Ghz	256	655 Mhz	4 MB	DDR3-1600 DDR3L-1600 DDR3U-1333
A6-4400M	HD 7520G	35W	2	3.2 Ghz	192	686 Mhz	1 MB	DDR3-1600 DDR3L-1600 DDR3U-1333
AMD A-Series APU’s For Ultrabooks
A10-4655M	HD 7620G	25W	4	2.8 Ghz	384	497 Mhz	4 MB	DDR3-1333 DDR3L-1333 DDR3U-1066
A6-4455M	HD 7500G	17W	2	2.6 Ghz	256	424 Mhz	2 MB	DDR3-1333 DDR3L-1333 DDR3U-1066