AMD's upcoming Fusion APU, Ontario, has had its performance numbers leaked online.
Raw performance figures for AMD's first Fusion based product, the upcoming Ontario processor, have been leaked and frankly things are looking pretty good.
The story originates from German site
Hardware Infos which seems to have gotten its hands on a leaked specification table that shows the Ontario based accelerated processing unit (APU) to be capable of 1.352 GFLOPS of floating-point performance. To put this in context this is just over twice the performance of an Intel Atom D510 CPU, but falls 15 per cent short of a low power Athlon II X2 250u. The leaked performance figures also suggest the APU contains a curious 488kB of cache.
While it’s disappointing that AMD’s new architecture seems to be beaten out by a processor based on the ageing K10 architecture its worth remembering that Ontario based APU’s are reported to operate at only 18W and include a DirectX 11 graphics core to boot. This compares favorably to the 25W Athlon II X2 250u draws (which, don’t forget, will also require an additional graphics chip) and certainly points to Fusion being able to take the fight to Intel in terms of performance per Watt.
Intel's Atom D510 meanwhile only draws 13W, but it's looking very much worth the extra 5W for the performance and graphical wizardry that the Ontario APU offers.
These figures are broadly in line with AMD’s early claim that its Bobcat based Ontario APU core would feature 90 per cent of 2010's mainstream performance in just 50 per cent of the die area. Obviously the accuracy of this claim depends where you draw the line for "mainstream" though.
Unfortunately, consumers won't be able to buy a boxed retail Ontario APU as it’s a BGA only chip and so has to be soldered directly to a PCB. Hopefully we might get a couple mini-ITX or similar small form factor boards with the CPU built in though.
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Discuss in the forums Replybeen itching to get on with a new ITX build, looks like a board based around this chip would be a winner.
Why they tested on Server 2008 R2 for an atom oriented type of chip could indicate that Low-power servers may also be powered by such chips...
How many could fit in a 1U blade ?
(On the continent, they use a comma where we use a decimal point. The french call it 'le point' I believe.)
Just sayin...
Yes. Is it effectively replacing Neo in that area.
Llano will be replacing the regular laptop lineup.
AFAIK AMD (per their roadmaps) does not plan to offer a triple or dual core Llano for laptops, only quad-core, which leads me to assume Ontario will fill that segment.
crazyceo are you seriously uninterested in a new product that could give the mobile market a proper shakeup? or maybe suspect fanboy-ism is at work...
No, I've seen some positive posts ;)
I'd only say that he has an unusually negative outlook on AMD and ATI products in general.
The graph is from a German website we linked to and they use , instead of . :)
General - true, but AMD will also launch single core versions too afaik. The comparative was dual core to dual core. Companies use the 410 because it's something like $20 cheaper. The 410 is actually an expensive chip compared to what Intel launched the D230 at two years ago.
Null - x64 is not needed in the lowest performance sectors, plus it adds transistors which = heat and cost.
dyzophoria - Ontario is currently being FAB'd by TSMC if its 40nm, so as soon as TSMC goes to 28nm or AMD goes GOFLO w/32/28nm the wattage will drop again.
Also remember that this chip has out of order execution, unlike the Atom which is an in-order core only = less transistors and lower heat ;)
Uhhmm, so that includes the HD graphics support chip / aging chipset power draw as well - right? (cough, cough)
but if you take into account the gpu that intel has to add along with their cpu and the communications and so forth the wattage is great then AMD single CPU/GPU solution so if you are an ultra low power addict then this is lower then Intels offering already and like what Bindi said will get even lower when they switch to a smaller process. :)
Oh well, there we are then :P I assumed they'd skimp on it given the design is power sensitive not performance
AFAIK, R2 is all 64 bit, non-R2 is all 64 bit except for the very base standard version of W2K8 Standard.
@Bindi, true, I do forget about that. I just would love the ability to be able to carry a 64bit OS in my back pocket, if nothing else then to say I did.
Well yes it does include the integrated graphics and by aging support chip I am guessing you are referring to the no longer used ICH7. This has been replaced by the newer more power efficient NM10 southbridge. Don't forget this Ontario chip will also require an I/O chip.
Anyway my point was this doesn't compete with netbook Atom CPU's(in terms of power draw) which is the idea some were getting. It does look to do very well against dual core Atoms.
I didn't know it was lower performance, although I guess the netbook market doesn't really care from what I have seen. I am sure this could compete with netbook Atom in a scaled down form which you mentioned earlier but not in its current spec. I am thinking Ontario would be a good fit for larger CULV notebooks but we will have to wait and see.
I am hoping the forthcoming mobile platforms from AMD do well as I am a little sick of buying Intel all the time in the mobile space.
I'll happily wait for the Bit-Tech full detailed review before I comment further.