Amd apu11/26/2023 Unfortunately we were not able to present a direct comparison with Sandy Bridge. With native support for both SATA 6GB/s (six devices) and USB 3.0 (four ports), it can definitely handle all the accessories you can throw at it. The A75 FCH has a host of features for a very reasonable price. ![]() Lynx is esigned to fit in the new FM1 socket and work in conjunction with the A75 FCH. The top-side looks like any current AM3 CPU, but the pin array is very different. I remember not too long ago when GPUs this strong weren’t even available on a discrete card! AMD A8-3850 It’s amazing when you think about how far they’ve come being able to fit such a powerful GPU on-die. While we can’t expect miracles, AMD put a lot into this APU I was very excited to see how it performed.Īll of that fits in this little package. It’s no small feat to fit actual discrete-level graphics power on a CPU die. The Surro graphics core is a revamped Redwood core, which was from the previous generation of ATI cards and was housed in the 5670 released in early 2010 ( see Anandtech’s review). Its little brother is the HD 6530D and specs out at 443 MHz and 320 shader cores. The more powerful of the two is the HD 6550D, clocking in at 600 MHz with 400 shader cores. Fast memory with tight timings are ok, but you’ll lose out if you go for memory MHz and disregard timings. Everyone considering one of these systems should bear in mind, timings are very important according to AMD. It’s a good thing too, because the IGP uses system memory and it needs the speed/timings a strong IMC is capable of. It also has the higher-specced IGP – the 6550D.Īll of the SKU’s ship with the strong DDR3-1866 capable memory controller. The A8-3850 we’re looking at today has the highest clock speed at 2.9 GHz. The higher-clocked CPUs come complete with a higher TDP, but operate at higher frequencies all the time. SKU ChartĪs you can see, the APUs are available with two different clock speeds and two different graphics cores. Make no mistake though, they are targeting the broadest spectrum of PC purchasers hard with this APU. These CPUs share the same architecture as the laptop APUs released in mid June. I can attest to the fact that it takes no tweaking at all to run that kind of speed with timings of 8-9-8-24. They’ve slightly revamped their Stars core (which is found in existing Athlon II and Phenom II CPUs) and given the memory controller a makeover, giving support for up to DDR3-1866. While Intel focused more on the CPU strength (let’s face it, Sandy Bridge’s processing power is killer), with Lynx AMD has gone the other route. Lynx contains an on-die CPU and GPU, much like Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs released earlier this year. The Llano ArchitectureĪMD’s desktop version of their Llano architecture (code-named Lynx) comes to light today in their A- series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units). Let’s see what AMD has cooked up for us with their latest accelerated processing unit. ![]() While many of our readers wouldn’t go for this platform as their main PC, many of us have other uses for Lynx – HTPCs for one. Targeted for a total system cost of $500-$600, this platform is geared toward the biggest market segment for PCs today. ![]() ![]() AMD’s soon-to-be-released Lynx platform (Llano architecture for desktop systems) is as mainstream as it gets. It’s not every day we look at a ‘mainstream’ part.
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