AMD Trinity CPU section to be up to 20% faster than Llano

[DanceswithUnix]

Seems that memory speed is going up by 14% on this often memory speed constrained platform:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5013/d...s-next-gen-apu

If they knock the roughest edges off their IPC problems and play with the caching then I can see Sims-3 performance could go up by 20% over LLano. Thats all most users of this chip are going to care about isn't it?

[scaryjim]

more memory bandwidth can only help the GPU - we already know the existing GPU is memory constrained up to 1866MHz, so if they're pushing the GPU performance by another 30% they're going to need faster memory. Wonder how long it'll be before we see QDR or the equivalent to GDDR5 on consumer chipsets?

In terms of speed, AMD is claiming up to 20% increase over Llano. Bulldozer's poor single-threaded performance might cause the performance upgrades to be limited to multithreaded tasks though, unless AMD can do magics with Piledriver (aka 2nd gen Bulldozer).

Nice to know I'm not the only one being a little cautious about the overall CPU performance of Trinity

[Top_gun]

How likely will the Trinity CPU be backward compatible with the FM1 socket?