AMD is showing off their Trinity Platform, their solution to compete with Intel's Ultrabook category. In CES, AMD demoed what seemed like a beefy desktop processor in a large gaming rig, playing a DirectX11 (second gen) game on one screen and transcoding video for iPad resolution on another.
It is unimpressive you see, but when you cracked open the case, it was actually a notebook doing all the work while playing HD video on its own screen!
Dirt 3 was running in low detail though, and media transcoding is more on CPU load than GPU, but the texture mapping in DirectX 11 made even the low detailed game pretty and impressive. All three tasks are simultaneously done running smoothly without stuttering or lagging.
Heat will be the first in question, appears to be a non-issue.
AMD's Trinity platform requires half of the power required for Llano APu. Down to 17W from 35W. AMD is also promising a 25% improvement in compute performance from the Piledriver CPU that replaces Bulldozer and a 50% improvement from the GPU in Trinity.
Expect to see Trinity in Windows 8 tablets and "Ultra-thins" late this year.
Source: Netbooknews
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