Transistor count of jaguar architecture...

[rockzur]

I have recently purchased a laptop with an A4-5000. And I have researching the web to see the capabilities of this processor. And I have found everything but the number of transistors that have the computing unit jaguar and its 8330 no sign. Anyone have information about it?

 

[sabot00]

If you just want to know the processing power of your APU then read up on some reviews/benchmarks. Transistor count is not a useful stat for measuring performance.

 

[jaguarskx]

The A4-5000 (1.5GHz) is a pretty modest APU who's CPU processing performance is below that of Trinity / Richland / Kaveri APUs. It's primary competitor is Intel's Bay Trail generation Atom CPUs. Specifically the Atom Z3770 (1.46GHz) which is a little more powerful.

The integrated Radeon HD 8330 is also a very modest graphics core. It is more powerful than nVidia GT 520m and GT 610m (which by default make is more powerful than the Atom Z3770's graphics core). It is roughly halfway between the Intel HD 3000 found in Sandy Bridge generation CPUs and the Intel HD 4000 found in Ivy Bridge generation CPUs.

 

[jaguarskx]

As for total transistor count, AMD has never released that information so you will not be able to find that information.

In comparison to AMD's Llano generation A6-3650 which has about 1.45 billion transistors, the A4-5000 has a "simpler" CPU architecture and 2MB of L2 cache vs. 4MB of L2 cache. I would guess the transistor count might be around 1 billion.

 

[rockzur]

The truth is that for many people an irrelevant fact, but for those who are a little geeks to the characteristics of the processors is a topic of interest. I already tell you that I have sailed across the network and I have not found even the die size ...

 

[jaguarskx]

 

[rockzur]

And according to the picture you have shown. What does the core count flop?

 

[jaguarskx]

FLOP means FLoating point OPerations.

Floating point basically refers to numbers with decimals that programs calculates for whatever the program needs to do with that number.

2 = An integer because it is a whole number.
2.0 = A floating point because in programming terms, it has at least one decimal even though it is a zero.

Core FLOP Count is simply the number of floating point calculations each core can perform each second. A dual core CPU would be Core FLOP Count x2. A quad core CPU would be Core FLOP Count x4.

 

[rockzur]

So, who are the gigaflops of computing power of each core. For the jaguar core would 19 gigaflops or so. No?

 

[jaguarskx]

Based on the information in the pictures above I cannot estimate the GFLOPs because I don't know what "Core FLOP Count" means. Therefore, I do not know how to translate that to FLOPs per cycle (Hz) which in turn can be used to determine GFLOPS.

 

[jaguarskx]

What I do know is that the FLOPS per 1Hz for an Intel CPU ranges from approximately 4 for the 1st generation Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs to about 13 or 14 for Intel's current Haswell generation Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs.