AMD Fusion: Brazos Gets Previewed: Part 2, Performance

[doron]

Any word about socket compatibility on the zambezi cpus?

 

[Guest]

Add the AMD GPU to the core i5... win win

 

[nforce4max]

It is interesting that just a few miles away from ware I live there is a river with the same name that is known for it's agricultural runoff.

 

[tralalak]

Why isn't benchmark results compared with new VIA Nano DC Platform ?

Preview: VIA VN1000 And Nano DC Platform: An IGP With Game?
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-520-nano-dc-vn1000,2779.html

 

[Guest]

I would like to know if it (and its 1.2GHz small brother) is capable playing Netflix and Hulu. Including HD. Because Atoms (and all netbooks with them) are not. And how soon watching HD movie on netflix via WiFi (50 feet from a 802.11n router) will drain a typical 3-cell netbook battery. Playing 3D games, encoding video, WinZipping massive amounts of data... people just don't do this thing on the class of hardware in question.

 

[Guest]

I would like to know if it (and its 1.2GHz small brother) is capable playing Netflix and Hulu. Including HD. Because Atoms (and all netbooks with them) are not. And how soon watching HD movie on netflix via WiFi (50 feet from a 802.11n router) will drain a typical 3-cell netbook battery. Playing 3D games, encoding video, WinZipping massive amounts of data... people just don't do this thing on the class of hardware in question.

 

[yankeeDDL]

Good GPU on a netbook does not only improve gaming performance, but more and more we see accelerated applications taking advantage of GPU.
Thing web browsing (that you definitely do on a netbook), but I can also see small video encoding: I take the netbook with me on trips and I use it to download photos and videos taken with my camera.
For "serious" editing I go on my desktop, but it's nice to know I could to some encoding "on the fly" and have it done before I have to go back home 😉

 

[Guest]

All of this is to make people talking about such products and to have consumers approbation for a particular product offer. Intel and Nvidia make same marketing.

 

[Onyx2291]

Nice to see a WoW benchmark, that game does have weird preferences with cpu/gpu.

 

[Reynod]

AMD should take a huge slice of the pie away from Intel in the mobile area, based on how well this performs.

The graphics performance is awesome.

 

[jj463rd]

Here is a demo of it (Zacate) against an Intel laptop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH5A4D9qoDQ

 

[taotao1990]

Finally, it has come! This time the netbook could run the Win7 with aero smoothly

 

[jimmysmitty]

I wish AMDs roadmaps were a bit easier to read. They just state what year the product will come out. We have no idea what quarter so we have no idea what it will face from Intel.

We know that most of this is set for 2011. Sandy Bridge is set for now with full release in Q1 2011. And we have a refresh for Atom coming within the next yar as well.

I can see this trouncing Atom in gaming and some other aspects but in battery life, I don't think it will beat Atom seeing as it is being set to compete in the notebook market. Thats where things will get a bit hairy. Sandy Bridge is already proving to be a nice performance boost.

If this were to hit at Christmas time it may do well. but if its in 2011, I have a bad feeling it will have to really work hard against SB.

 

[eyefinity]

At what? Zacate will beat sandy bridge at gaming more often than not. It's different markets, if you want inet browsing/casual gaming and that, Zacate will be far and away the best choice. If you need to render and encode, SB will be better.

The average user will only need Zacate, and it's awesome battery life, ever again.

 

[qhoa1385]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]Who the hell plays games on a netbook? Another spectacular fail for AMD.[/citation]
People don't play games on netbooks because none of the current netbooks can play anything
/sigh...

 

[maddad]

"Who the hell plays games on a netbook? Another spectacular fail for AMD."

Well lets see now, they have millions of people playing games on 4" cell phone screens. And probably about 60 million playing "farmville" who would love to play it on their netbooks. Anything that will increase graphics performance while maintaining high battery life on a netbook should be a good thing to the consumer. And maybe they can get some sales in on the "Ipad killer" market. But I will have to agree with Jobs on this one; If it isn"t 10" or larger its just a big cell phone.

 

[sudeshc]

still a long road ahead

 

[zoridon]

If you ask me the 1.6 ghz Zacate in a 11.6 or 12 inch form factor with 720P resolution with over 5 hours battery life would be the sweet spot for portability combined with horsepower. If they can get that platform out at $500 or less its a solid win. It would be ideal for school work with the ability to do casual gaming, or watching HD content without dropped frames. I'm using a ASUS EEPC 1000HE right now and its painfully slow and the resolution at 1000x600 sucks for facebook mafia wars, vampire wares etc... let alone web page browsing.

 

[Guest]

I do not think the average computer user cares if the cpu is Intel or AMD.

 

[Guest]

No k325?its unfair comparison. All are dual cores vs a single core

 

[lamorpa]

[citation][nom]frederico[/nom]If an Intel processor and an AMD processor were exactly the same - 9 out of 10 'normal' people would choose the Intel[/citation]

'normal' people (meaning the general population) don't have the slightest idea which processor in in their laptop. If you asked, they would tell you they have a Toshiba, Dell, Apple, etc.

 

[Guest]

all ran on unoptimized code, 'IF' AMD can get the GPGPU off the ground and get some optimized codes going performance could really take off

 

[jj463rd]

I think that some people are getting a little confused here.
Zacate (18 watt TDP) is not for netbooks.It's for low cost notebooks.
Ontario (9 watt TDP) is for netbooks.Might be able to do some type of gaming (especially older titles) with Ontario but it will be limited.

 

[egmccann]

[citation][nom]frederico[/nom]If an Intel processor and an AMD processor were exactly the same - 9 out of 10 'normal' people would choose the Intel[/citation]

No, if the processors were "the same," 9 out of 10 normal people would pick whatever's cheapest, or stuck in the brand (by which I mean HP, Acer, etc., not Intel or AMD) they know.

 

[nebun]

integrated graphics is for phussies