AMD Zacate APU Notebook Review

Last week, AMD officially unveiled the first mobile phone Accelerated Processing Units (APU), designed for notebooks and netbooks next budget in early 2011. The “Brazos” platform consists of two classes of auxiliary power units, “Ontario” the code name for the series C APU is running at low voltage 9W or less power, which compete for use with Intel Atom in netbook. “Zacate” the code name for the I-18W Series APU for high performance computing and multimedia is developed.

AMD merger as a way to not only better gaming performance seen on the market, but also enable many new applications for GPU computing. Remember Zacate and Ontario are in the pricing systems around $ 500 or less. With this type of GPU compute basic model, which is a matter of time until the developers begin to do something.

Zacate GPU performance we see today is not completely optimized case. The watches are not finalized, are drivers not refined, and although we are close to liberation, there are still potentially more power on the table.

It is very rare for a corporation, a decision can be published on our benchmarks and test some novel without making ever seen before. The first time the AMDers in the Batman sequel Zacate seen running when we installed. To be honest, it was probably the most open and flexible than I’ve ever seen for AMD. I knew that if the number is changed IE9 he City of Heroes figures in question. By increasing to us immediately, and to add another title (the one we recently used) AMD has to deal with the situation perfectly.

At the end of the review probationary period with the E-350 AMD I was “impressed” but not “blow”. The reality can be seen that the E-350 and auxiliary power units under the new platform Brazos how we play the same level of other notebooks with Intel and Nvidia. On the other hand, the cost of these systems with “as good or better” performance much higher than $ 500.

If the search market, AMD is good and the majority of consumers are for laptops in the price range of $ 500 or less looking for, could the E-350 APU a great solution for consumers and manufacturers laptops. I will say to go so far that if you are on the fence about buying a laptop low-cost ultra-portable integrated Intel graphics then you can wait until the Consumer Electronics Show in January, when AMD first notebook says based pass Zacate.