Friday, April 29, 2011
What is an AMD APU?
The AMD Fusion™ Family of APUs: "The AMD Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) gives software developers the power to unleash their imaginations and access new revenue opportunities by creating futuristic, visually rich applications with no-compromise performance even on the small form factor devices users want."
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CPU's are good for generic computing (spreadsheets,etc). GPU's are good for vector processing and massive parallel processing data crunching (graphics, games, converters,etc). All these times, these two computing components have been separated in design and communicated by the slow system bus.
ReplyDeleteThe APU combines both parallel-processing, computing, and vector processing capabilities all under one single component, and in the future one single design.
CPU's are dead, from now on. NVidia and AMD have the GPU technology, and AMD is the only company that has real CPU and GPU technology in house. Intel does not have read/reliable GPU technology and it it does not buy NVidia, it will struggle for many years.
NVidia and AMD support 2009's Microsoft DirectX 11, while Intel's only support the obsolete DirectX 10, and will not support DirectX 11 until 2013, so Sandy Bridge has problems not only in performance but in supporting key technologies like DirectX11, OpenCL, and inter-apu technologies like AMD new generation of crossfire technologies.