AMD's Puma Notebook Platform
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Friday, 06 June 2008 07:25 |
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 AMD has announced ‘Griffin’ as its new mobile CPU and ‘Puma’ the new platform supporting it. Before this, AMD made CPU architectures that scaled from top to bottom, from Server to Mobile. The Griffin codename denotes 65nm processors bent on increasing performance and battery life of our beloved laptops and mobile devices. These third generation Turion 64 X2 dual-core 64-bit processors also bring support for DDR2-800 memory. Puma then, is the name given to the overall platform built initially around an RS780 chipset featuring a DX-10 class graphics core, Blu-ray and HD DVD acceleration support, and output options for DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort. According to AMD, the combination of Griffin with the RS780 chipset will provide "significantly better" performance-per-watt-per-dollar than their existing platform.
Other Details on AMD's Puma notebook platform: AMD has revealed that each core of Turion Ultra can also run at independent frequencies. This allows the cores to dynamically shift frequency levels while executing a thread. To help save power when running off of battery power, AMD says its PowerXpress technology dynamically switches, without any reboot, from external graphics to integrated graphics. The change happens instantly and unnoticeably when changing power sources, however, the option is provided to disable this feature. Likewise, Hybrid Crossfire technology will allow you to use a discrete graphics controller with the integrated graphics controller for increased gaming performance. News Source: http://www.amd.com
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