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Llano poses for more performance comparisions

by Navin Maini on 12 May 2011, 14:30

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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As Llano draws nearer, so do the performance comparisons.

 

 

A new slide claims to pit the graphics capabilities of A-Series A4-3400, A6-3650 and A8-3850 Llano APUs against some of Intel's offerings - including an i5-2300K, which we presume, is a typo representing an i5-2500K feeling rather lowly.

Playable frame rates, according to this slide, range from somewhere in the region of 22FPS upwards and Llano seemingly puts on quite a show in the titles tested. There also appears to be a natural progression in performance between different members of the Llano family, but not a single instance in which Intel's IGP offerings can hold a candle to AMD's upcoming A-Series.

There's no mention of what type of system platform or resolution was used to generate these numbers, but there will undoubtedly be plenty more leaks before we get Llano into our hands.



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i wish we could get clarification on whether the four-core llano's have 480 or just 400 shaders………..?
resolution? settings? It's meaningless without any of these, just a picture of a pretty graph….

Hope it is as good as they say though. :)

Be great if Intel were on the back foot, and they finally had to start cutting their costs to compete!
Intel's IGP has always been pretty dreadful for actual gaming though. AMDs has generally been a little stronger (whilst still no match for a dedicated gpu). Sounds great for a HTPC though, I wonder what the power draw will be like…
World + Dog has already guessed that they will be faster for games than an Intel chip, but much slower on CPU tasks…

The unanswered questions for me are:
- Power consumption - very important for HTPC, especially idle & H264 playback?
- How fast, fast enough to really game or not and fast enough for video IQ enhancements?
- Compared to Core iX & discrete card with same graphics power & what the bang per ££ is on that.

I reckon it's quite likely a Core i3/i5 + Radeon 6570 (or higher) could end up being faster CPU wise, faster on games and have a similar power budget, which could make Llano a bit of a dud unless it comes in at a much lower price.
Considering Llano is aimed at the current Athlon II performance area, I assume a system would be far cheaper than anything i3/i5 based, not to mention when combined with a discrete GPU. No-one is making any extravagant claims about CPU performance, Llano still uses K10 based cores, albeit improved and with a lower TDP. You can get some idea of TDP here - so you're getting a quad core CPU paid with a 6550 @ 65w, pretty impressive considering either of the former usually carry a ~60w TDP alone.

Fast enough to really game? I think that depends on what you consider really gaming, for enthusiasts I can't see it replacing 6870s any time soon but I think something like this would be ideal for most of my friends i.e. not hardcore PC gamers but like to play some older games from time to time but normal IGP limits them to rock-bottom settings.