AMD’s next generation of Accelerated Processing Units, Trinity, was shown off to us at CES this year with an impressive multithreaded workload. One display was running Dirt 3 in DirectX 11 mode, another was on the Windows desktop with a video transcoding app in full flow, and the third — part of the laptop running the entire operation — was playing back a full HD movie. The upcoming Trinity chip was handling all three tasks simultaneously, offering compelling evidence for AMD’s bold claim that Trinity will offer Llano-like performance but at half the energy consumption. The Dirt 3 instance played with perfect smoothness throughout and we saw no stutter in the HD video being played back on the laptop. We were shown a Trinity APU with a 35W TDP, but 17W models will also be made available alongside desktop parts that can go as high as 100W.
AMD Trinity demo: full HD gaming, video playback, and transcoding
AMD’s next generation of Accelerated Processing Units, Trinity, was shown off to us at CES this year with an impressive multithreaded workload.
AMD’s next generation of Accelerated Processing Units, Trinity, was shown off to us at CES this year with an impressive multithreaded workload.
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