Anandtech Reviews AMD Kabini

[zir_blazer]

Anandtech just released both a Review of the Jaguar architecture, and Kabini benchmarks. For those that aren't following it, AMD just officially released Kabini and its little twin Temash. Both are based on Jaguar architecture, that is the codename of the successor of Bobcat, AMD's line of CPU architectures oriented to low power envelopes equivalent to Intel Atom. While Kabini is aimed at Netbooks and Ultrabooks, Temash with even lower power consumption is aimed to Tablets.

Kabini itself is quite a healthy improvement over Brazos, and badly owns current Atoms. However, Intel also got ULV Ivy Bridges that can fit the same power envelopes than Kabini but is much more powerful, but Kabini should be quite cheaper than it. Don't forget that albeit Kabini is a solid step forward Brazos, according to the gaming benchmarks they did, it is still under 20 FPS for most modern games even on the lowest settings, so don't expect to play anything new with it. You would have to either go for a more expensive ULV Ivy Bridge, or step up for a Richland on a bigger form factor.

Kabini itself is quite small: Around 107-112mm^2. And we're talking about a SoC here - there is no Southbridge or anything.

[AMDforME]

Jaguar, Temash, Kabini and Richland is a pretty nice group of new APUs that have secured significant contracts for the PS4, Xbox, Wii and more. These new APUs not only offer a significant increase in performance they offer much lower power consumption, which is useful for laptop and portable devices.

[VulgarHandle]

Replace Richland with Kaveri, and your list will be more on point.

[AMDforME]

Replace Richland with Kaveri, and your list will be more on point.

Richland is just a mild improvement over Trinity which is an excellent APU. Kaveri will be a big boost over Richland, even more than Jaguar/Kabini are.

[Darakian]

They didn't review the highest end Kabini chip either, just the highest end 15 watt chip.

[informal]

I don't think they had access to a notebook with highest end Kabini yet. AMD is being traditionally slow in rolling out of their new lineups. I hope these parts get good traction with OEMs since not only AMD made great products that will satisfy the end users for lower price (vs intel counterparts), they have a chance to finally grab some mobile market share in notebooks and netbook/UB segments now.

[hurleybird]

This thing is just crying for better turbo.

[AMDforME]

As a reference point, last year AMD had already sold over 20 Million APUs and many of those went into laptops. Kabini will definitely gain market share and offer consumers even more choices with its various power and performance levels, all at very nice prices.

MSI has just released two nice gaming laptops powered by the new AMD A10-5750 model Richland APUs.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/20395...u-and-gpu.html

[zir_blazer]

Anandtech also did a follow up benchmarking Kabini vs a Pentium 2020M.

[Kallenator]

Did not look at the power consumption numbers as closely last time, but when you take that into account it looks really good. It might be half performance of Intel, but does it at half the power as well.

[VulgarHandle]

Don't forget better graphics, with half the power.

[LightSpeed]

Very impressive indeed. Would be interesting to see what it can do with some turbo love. Also hope that iGPU can be overclocked but i guess its more bandwidth limited than compute.

[Kallenator]

Don't forget better graphics, with half the power.

True dat!

[Lightman]

If only AMD engineers had access to Intel's manufacturing process ...

I want Temash in my next tablet with AMD Overdrive support for overcloking

I'm impressed with Jaguar core and it's power/performance ratio! Just to think that on 90nm we were having fun with Athons 64 X2 3800+ (65W) and getting similar or lower performance than 15W Kabini! Cinebench 11.5 score of 0.9 for X2 vs 1.5 for A4-5000!!

[AbortRetryFail?]

I think Anand finally gets it ... almost.

Put the cost savings into a small SSD , the screen and/or improved connectivity. And stop throwing DX11 games and synthetics at them.

Shows us FEAR, COD, etc ... preferably on an external HDD or thumbdrive.

Let's see how that 'takes' ...