Continuing with its Fusion family rollout AMD has now officially launched their A-Series of accelerated processing units -- or APUs. Unlike the low-power flavor of Fusion chips already on the market, the C-Series (Ontario) and E-Series (Zacate) for netbooks and budget laptops, the A-Series (Llano) was designed with desktops and mainstream laptops in mind and will be the first from AMD made using a 32-nanometer manufacturing process.
AMD is taking direct aim at Intel's Core 2011 processors with seven laptop APUs across three families, available as the A4, A6, and A8. The dual-core A4 chips will compete with Core i3 processors, while the quad-core A6 is going after i3 and i5 chips, and the quad-core A8 will take on Intel's range topping i5 and i7. Here's a quick look at their specs:
All models support features such as HDMI 1.4a, DisplayPort 1.1, and USB 3.0, as well as multi-monitor setups, 3D gaming and 3D Blu-ray playback. A-Series chips will also offer the option of adding a separate discrete graphics card on top of the bundled GPU, in a setup called AMD Dual Graphics that is said to boost graphics performance by up to 75%. Furthermore, AMD is also touting 10-plus hours of battery life, or 50-60% more than comparable laptops from last year.
In terms of pricing, systems with the A4, A6, and A8 chips are expected to start around $499, $599, and $699, respectively. AMD expects more than 150 laptops and desktops to use A-series parts starting almost immediately. Toshiba has already announced the new Satellite P700, equipped with the AMD A6-3400M, while HP has updated eleven of their Pavilion and ProBook laptop models to include the latest AMD parts.
AMD is taking direct aim at Intel's Core 2011 processors with seven laptop APUs across three families, available as the A4, A6, and A8. The dual-core A4 chips will compete with Core i3 processors, while the quad-core A6 is going after i3 and i5 chips, and the quad-core A8 will take on Intel's range topping i5 and i7. Here's a quick look at their specs:
| Model | CPU clock | CPU cores | L2 cache | Radeon GPU | Shaders | GPU clock | TDP |
| A8-3530MX | 1.9GHz/2.6GHz | 4 | 4MB | HD 6620G | 400 | 444MHz | 45W |
| A8-3510MX | 1.8GHz/2.5GHz | 4 | 4MB | HD 6620G | 400 | 444MHz | 45W |
| A8-3500M | 1.5GHz/2.4GHz | 4 | 4MB | HD 6620G | 400 | 444MHz | 35W |
| A6-3410MX | 1.6GHz/2.3GHz | 4 | 4MB | HD 6520G | 320 | 400MHz | 45W |
| A6-3400M | 1.4GHz/2.3GHz | 4 | 4MB | HD 6520G | 320 | 400MHz | 35W |
| A4-3310MX | 2.1GHz/2.5GHz | 2 | 2MB | HD 6480G | 240 | 444MHz | 45W |
| A4-3300M | 1.9GHz/2.5GHz | 2 | 2MB | HD 6480G | 240 | 444MHz | 35W |
In terms of pricing, systems with the A4, A6, and A8 chips are expected to start around $499, $599, and $699, respectively. AMD expects more than 150 laptops and desktops to use A-series parts starting almost immediately. Toshiba has already announced the new Satellite P700, equipped with the AMD A6-3400M, while HP has updated eleven of their Pavilion and ProBook laptop models to include the latest AMD parts.
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