AMD’s new Fusion circuit of the APU family Llano has been tested in 3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage and performance is on par with what is expected, that is CPU is on the same level as Athlon II X4 and a little slower than AMD Radeon HD5550. THe APU in this test comes with four cores at 2.4GHz and an unknown number of stream processors, but also the clock frequencies of the GPU is unknown.
Llano will be AMD’s next APU that will target notebooks and the mainstream among desktops. THe APU is based on AMD’s current processor architecture used in Athlon II and Phenom II, and the last generation graphics architecture Evergreen, but with some changes, like UVD 3.0.
The performance of the processor is just below Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz and Phenom II X4 810 2.6GHz and considering this one runs at only 2.4GHz it looks like it will be slightly faster at the same frequency.
The GPU of Llano lands just below HD5550 and about what you would expect from 400 streamp rocessors at 600MHz. Llano comes with 80 stream processors more and somewhat higher clock frequencies than HD5550 so most likely the memory can’t keep up since Llano is limited to DDR3-1600MHz in dual channels, but we shouldn’t be too quick to judge until we know more about the system.
All of this should be considered with a pinch of salt, but since Llano is expected to launch next month it is not unlikely to be true. AMD mentioned during AMD Analyst Day that Llano is a “3GHz+” design, which means final clocks will be higher than 2.4GHz.
Source: Inpai
