AMD Benchmarks Zacate APU, 2x Faster GPU Performance than Core i5

[Nintendork]

The id that the cpu would be in range of the 5450 is hokum.

5450 specs:
Radeon 5450 512MB DDR3
Stream Processors 80
Graphics Core Clock Speed 650MHz
Texture Units 8 8
Texture Fill-rate 5.2 Gigatexels/sec
ROPs 4
Pixel Fill-rate 2.6 Gpixels/sec
Memory Clock Speed 800MHz
Memory Interface 64-bit
Memory Bandwidth 12.8GB/sec
Typical Board Power 19.2W

Lets asume the rumour was true that gpu in zacate ran @ 500MHz, that is 150MHz or 24% less.

Memory Bandwtih 12.8GB/s. What is the bandwidth on Zacate? (and that is shared) + the latency.

Zacate was made to be as low power as possible while still having decent graphics. Like previous poster said, they give 40% higher gaming performance with 50% of the energy consumption (on cpu level) compared to the current notebooks out there without a dedicated card. Just like SB is a revelation in ondie gpu performance for desktops and high-end notebooks, Zacate is that for the low power market.

edit: I believe Zacate is powered towards gpu enhancments for applications (flash, HD, ..) and keep the power consumption as low as possible for those. That was the primary design of the APU, having another type of calculation unit that can be used to handle certain tasks at a much higher speed. Considering their gpu supports dx11, opencl etc developers have the opportunity to optimize their applications for these things. (wether that will happen is a whole different story)

SB IGP is not a revelation by any means since it will be humillated by the 400-480SP monster that is Llano(and not bottlenecked by low frequency cpu's, 2.5Ghz+ dual/quad setups). They just showed their IGP performance earlier, just that.

At mínimum 2-3 times faster than fully enabled SB IGP.

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SB IGP is not a revelation by any means since it will be humillated by the 400-480SP monster that is Llano(and not bottlenecked by low frequency cpu's, 2.5Ghz+ dual/quad setups). They just showed their IGP performance earlier, just that.

At mínimum 2-3 times faster than fully enabled SB IGP.

i know llano will be faster(spec wise at least), but it will also be later by at least a quarter. SB will be the first ondie gpu that will be better than the low standalone graphic cards. (we don't know what anand tested, he isn't sure either. But what he tested was slightly better than the 5450.

edit: the test was done on the Zacate. But we have no clue about the clockspeeds that it was running (some rumours) and we don't know the launchspeeds of ontario or Zacate. They can also trade more gpu for cpu or toy with such settings on the fly. As Anandtech mentionned gpu clock speeds are not written into stone and the drivers were not optimized yet, so there is enough still in the air for us to be suprised at launch (or the reverse ofcourse).