The Sandy Bridge Preview (Anand)

[terrace215]

The 12 Exec. Unit(2C) GPU part would need to be 4x faster than 5450/1C SB's GPU in order to even come close to Llano's 480SP Evergreen part.

I think you're overestimating how that Evergreen part is going to perform when integrated with Llano

[Manicdan]

I think you're overestimating how that Evergreen part is going to perform when integrated with Llano

what do you mean? that 480SPs will not be fully utilized when paired with Llano?

[informal]

I think you're overestimating how that Evergreen part is going to perform when integrated with Llano

I think you are underestimating Llano altogether . The GPU part in Llano will be 32nm hk/mg SOI instead of 40nm bulk,so clocks can be different from Evergreen discrete parts.There is a new IMC specially designed for the Fusion parts and higher DDR3 speeds will be supported with the new IMC. Altogether Llano's game performance should be in another league compared to SB.