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AMD Trinity to Launch in May

News Editor: Tony Le Bourne Date: 08-05-2012 [ Print | 2 comment(s) ] Discuss in Forums

AMD's next generation APU is expected to launch in May with initial availability for notebooks.

Industry sources have revealed that AMD's 'Trinity' APU is getting ready to launch in May for mobile platforms with the A10 and A8 desktop variants due to come in August.

Offering an overall performance increase of 25% on the CPU and 50% on the GPU, Trinity is AMD's Vanguard against Intel's Ivy Bridge in the mobile sector. Expected to be priced lower than competing solutions from Intel, AMD intend to push the price/performance bar up a notch.

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AMD Trinity to Launch in May

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#25190 Posted on: 08.05.2012 15:53:47

I hope that AMD can hit it out of the park with Trinity, they could do with a break on the CPU side of things.

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#25198 Posted on: 09.05.2012 10:17:48

I dont think there will be miracles with Trinity,

if you look for info on FX 4100 vs A8-3850

you will notice that even @ 3.6GHz (FX) vs 2.9GHz (A8) the A8 practically beats the FX chip in everything BAR instruction limited benchmarks. IE AES, SSSE3, SSE 4.1 based benchmarks. This is what benefits some games too and what creates inconsistent results. not to mention what that 200MHz bump in speed via turbo core delivers.

Overclock them to 4.6GHz (FX) vs 3.7GHz (A8) nearly a whole GHz between them, and I would bet that the Llano chip is 'generally' the better chip still by a fair margin. If anything, other than better motherboard support + extra instruction sets, there is little to benfit from buying the FX 4100 over the A8-3850/3870K imo.

Trinity is expected to deliver 25% higher performance @approx 30% higher frequency.

IPC of Llano is still the highest of any cpu AMD has currently made and seems set to stay that way for a little longer. though through brute force trinity will outperform Llano and will have a nice new iGPU too... If I were to take a guess Id bet that the trinity quadcore will perform similar to the current FX 6100 line.