S/A AMD Trinity Die Pic

[AtenRa]

Anyways, the new IGP should be quite a bit faster than Llano. But Llano is already bandwidth limited on memory. So... Unless AMD puts some Sideport type ram it could be hampered quite a bit...

Trinity's Memory Controllers will be able to operate up to 2133MHz, that's close to 15% higher bandwidth than Llano's 1866MHz.

 

[blckgrffn]

The 6870 isn't VLIW4. Its VLIW5 iirc.

Also it appears to depends on the game whether the VLIW4 update was faster than VLIW5. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/511?vs=509

Anyways, the new IGP should be quite a bit faster than Llano. But Llano is already bandwidth limited on memory. So... Unless AMD puts some Sideport type ram it could be hampered quite a bit...

*slaps forehead*

You're right of course. I have a hard time accepting AMD rolled VLIW4 for one sub series of cards, I guess. I know the 6770 is an imposter but I keep thinking that 68xx must have some magic sauce due to it performance proximity (minus shaders & TMU's) to the 58xx series.

Trinity's Memory Controllers will be able to operate up to 2133MHz, that's close to 15% higher bandwidth than Llano's 1866MHz.

I stand by my opinion that you'd be better off taking that memory premium and shopping hard for a dedicated video card in 90% of the cases. DDR3-1600 has to be what is going to be dominantly used in any volume Trinity deployments. I shudder to think of what speed memory Dell and the rest of the OEM zombies pair these things with.

 

[formulav8]

Yeah anything less than 1600mhz would be pretty bad.