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According to PC industry, AMD said earlier to the industry platform for the development of more NB direction, September 2 will be released new NB platform performance level "Tigris", will switch to 45-nanometer "Caspian" processor and The new RS880M chipset, not only the performance of processor performance and power consumption further, IGP graphics core also upgraded to Direct X 10.1 and upgraded to the specifications UVD 2.0 version, the attraction increases.
"Capspian" match processor RS880M chipset
AMD Tigris platform in accordance with development plan will be adopted processor, code-named "Capspian" the 45-nanometer processors, including the Sempron M100, Athlon II M300, Turion II M500 and Turion II Ultra M600 series, compared to 65 nm K8 architecture behalf , "Capspian" is based on the Star architecture, support Hyper-Transport 3.0, 128bit FPU width instruction set SSE4A support, to enhance the effectiveness of a degree, and the power performance due to decline in the progress of the process.
The use of new chipsets RS880M, but will switch to graphics core RV620, support Direct X 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1, will effectively enhance the HDR and antialiasing optical power efficiency and reduce the restrictions on AA support, and provide smoother is When the shadow effect, but it is important that joined the Tessellation technical support, the game will be using this technology to reduce the volume of Shader operations to reduce the computing load on the GPU.
Image processing technology was also upgraded to the Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD2) version, in addition to provide 100% hardware VC-1, H.264 and MPEG-2 Bitstream decoding, the quality of video playback for a number of improvements, added DVD upscaling to HD functions, so that 720 x 480 video or file to 1920 x 1200, and reduce the image fuzzy and loose.
However, AMD "Tigris" platform, while the introduction of new RS880M North Bridge, South Bridge will still be used but the old SB710, until the next generation of "Danube" platform will switch to SB820M South Bridge chip, the additional SATA 6Gb / s support.
PowerPlay 10 version support
In addition to performance improvements, AMD Tigris platform also supports a new version of PowerPlay 10, mainly for the graphics core to include more energy-efficient technologies, new RS880M support Frame Buffer Compression technologies reduce the use of idle memory, IGP core clock and voltage can be adjusted according to demand in order to reduce power consumption by adding UVD video playback mode for an appropriate time clock and voltage adjustments.
In addition, the new RS880M support Varbright and Deep Sleep 2.0 technology, the former is to reduce the backlight color to maintain the same effect, but to energy, while the latter is to reduce the display panel to reduce the update rate of power consumption. And with the specific graphics chip, AMD Tigris platform support PowerXpress, users do not need to restart the system, may need to switch modes and IGP graphics mode.
NB next year's quad-core processor
NB According to the latest AMD platform for planning, will be launched in 2010 a new platform for performance-class "Danube", 45-nanometer process, code-named "Champlain" core with dual-core, three core and quad-core version, additional support for DDR3 memory modules .
RS880M chipset North Bridge chip is still used, but will match the new AMD SB820M South Bridge chip, the additional SATA 6Gb / s support. Drawing will be able to match the chip, code-named "Manhattan" of the Direct X11 graphics.
Will be introduced in 2011 the first-class platform Fusion architecture performance "Sabine", using 32-nanometer process APU, code-named "Liano", has the same dual-core, three core and quad-core version of system-on-chip to cover Hudson, support USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb / s and other functions.
In short. Same "rebranded" 700 series chipset with RV620 IGP with UVD2. DX11 coming sometime in 2010 as a dicrete GPU solution to laptops. And fusion (Think Core i3) comes in 2011 on 32nm. No DX11 or upgraded IGP in the coming future.