AMD to Announce Mobile ‘Trinity’ APUs on May 15th
X-Bit Labs has received some leaked info about AMD’s upcoming Trinity APU launch. It appears that AMD will unveil their new APUs on 15th May, but they will be the mobile variant only. The May date is ahead of the major Computex trade show in Taiwan in June, which looks like it has been chosen to avoid a head-to-head with Intel’s Ivy Bridge launch going on then, which will attract a lot more attention. The official product names for Trinity based products will be Virgo for desktops and Comal for laptops.
Trinity is AMD’s second generation APU. It’s based on the Piledriver CPU core (successor to Bulldozer) and will feature four cores on a 32nm SOI HKMG (Hi-K Metal Gate) manufacturing process from GlobalFoundries. The graphics core will be based on the Radeon 7000-series Southern Islands architecture and offer DX11 graphics capability and the APU will work with DDR3 memory. It will be interesting to see independent benchmark figures for these new chips compared to Llano and Ivy Bridge. Good price/performance capability seems likely to be delivered.
According to performance benchmarks conducted by AMD, the Trinity 35W APU with Piledriver-class x86 cores will provide 25% better x86 performance compared to Llano 35W (with K10.5+ “Husky” x86 cores) based on results obtained in PC Mark Vantage Productivity benchmark. AMD also claims that Trinity 35W will offer up to 50% better result in 3D Mark Vantage performance benchmark compared to Llano 35W.
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