AMD: With a cougar in the wake of Centrino
AMD's third-generation mobile platform, Puma, has arrived.
Breaking into Intel Centrino laurels, the Puma mobile platform consists of a Griffin processor, officially Turion, and a chipset with integrated graphics controller, the RS780M + SB700. The characteristics of these components are summarized in our lines below, separately.
Griffin processors are dual-core, equipped with 1 MB of L2 cache per core, handle 667/800 MHz DDR2 memories up to 8 GB, support the HyperTransport 3.0 communication standard, and are highly energy efficient. they can be controlled, the clock can be drastically reduced by up to one-eighth, the bandwidth of HT can be changed dynamically - we can get to know central units.
The DirectX 780 IGP embedded in the RS10M says AMD says it will easily put the Intel GMA X3100 behind it, with notebook manufacturers pairing it with DVI, HDMI and / or DisplayPort on demand, and UVD - Unified / Universal Video Decoder - Provides a helping hand to the CPU in hardware playback of HD videos.
Az AMD 780G RS780M, which can be considered a mobile version, deserves special attention due to its Hybrid Graphics Technology and the so-called PowerXpress. The former enables the two GPUs to work together in order to achieve the highest possible performance in notebooks equipped with a dedicated graphics controller, while the latter is designed to extend battery life, as the user can switch between the IGP and "companion card" without restarting the system.
The Puma, which promises to be a worthy opponent of Intel Centrino, is ready to jump, and laptops built around AMD’s platform could land on specialty store shelves at the end of the second quarter.
