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[HEXUS]

AMD's Puma notebook platform to be 3x quicker than Intel's current best?

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[HEXUS]

Ian McNaughton, AMD's Senior Product Manager for Product & Platform Marketing and Patrick Moorhead, AMD's VP for Advanced Marketing exclusively invited the HEXUS.tv film crew behind the scenes at CeBIT 2008, to shoot an AMD PUMA-powered MSI notebook taking on an equivalent Intel notebook head-2-head.

AMD claim that the software set-up was identical and that pricing on the AMD PUMA-powered unit is expected to be lower than for the Intel notebook.

Watch the show.

[cah]

Didn't the chap say 3400 discrete on the video? not 2400?

[Andrzej]

Originally Posted by cah

...3400 discrete...

Yep - he says it is 3400 based...

...but we nudged the tpyo manager and had confirmation back that it supports DX10 - not DX10.1 - so 2400 is accurate

In all, it was one of the more amazing demonstrations I've seen over the past 30 years in this industry - got to the point where you weren't sure if the second one would ever stop

Be interesting to see what Intel launch next in this space

[pumpman]

now thats how to sell a product , positive news for amd for a change and no intel advert at the end great video

[digit]

I really enjoyed the feature as well. Really unsure however about the claim it will play back a full length blue ray film from a fully charged battery... Be very interested to see that tested later on at some point!

[Andrzej]

Originally Posted by digit

...fully charged battery...

We saw BluRay playback quickly demonstrated just after this was shot - and the quality difference was impressive - but not easy to capture on camera

We'll test the battery claims soon enough

[Sim0n]

Yea, i'd love to see how they ran this bluray that can last for the length of a battery...

is that with the screen dimmed as much as possible, with the speakers barely audible, and the actual blueray playing from a drive (not HDD cached), and at full screen ?

i trust someone at hexus will have great fun watching films to test

[cah]

Thanks for the comment on the 3400 - I thought i was going senile or something. PErhaps 10.1 will be added later with a chip refresh.

Probably they will set screen to 50% and use headphones...to mimmick what you would have on a plane. They will probably also use a 12cell battery, Meet the Spartans (60mins long) etc etc

I don't think they would run it from a HD since ripping blueray to HD is not something they would want to suggest people should do.

Either way, intel's solution with centrino 2 I think will be better than current IGP solutions, but from early indications not AS good as AMD's.
Their CPUs might be better, but intel's solution apparently scores 11003dmarks 2006 versus approximately 1600 for the 780G. I don't believe in 3dmark, but it might give a clue as to relative performances. Current IGP from intel can't even finish 3dmark 06 i think.

[Quantum-M]

Looks very promising judging by what I have seen on the show. A very attractive product for some casual gaming on the go, without having to find the plug ALL the time.

Thanks Hexus for the episode

[baius]

Originally Posted by Quantum-M

Looks very promising judging by what I have seen on the show. A very attractive product for some casual gaming on the go, without having to find the plug ALL the time.

Thanks Hexus for the episode

Definitely have to add my thanks.

I've been ranting on about AMD Fusion recently, which promises 1/2 way decent graphics, but the subject of the video address sounds good, too.

15fps compared to 49fps - Hmmm... Depends on the games, the settings, etc, and I'll wait till Hexus/THG/etc gets to test the platform in person before I'm convinced. However, hopefully winning by a factor of 3 (plus) in ANY benchmark means AMD are doing something right.

I just want to get some gaming in at medium/high settings on a "mobile" computer.

I wonder what these laptops will cost, at launch?