AMD Zacate APU running 3 applications (video)

Posted on Tuesday, November 09 2010 @ 21:06 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Legit Reviews received a demonstration of AMD's upcoming Brazos entry-level notebook platform, you can check it out over here. For its $399 price point this platform is pretty powerful.

AMD showed this proof of concept heterogeneous demo shows an AMD E-350 APU with AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics on-board running Hyper-Pi 32M at full 100% load on both x86 'Bobcat' CPU cores, a high-performance computing application on the GPU compute engine and the 3rd Generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD) playing 1080P video content all at the same time. How much do you think a whole notebook platform based on this APU will cost? AMD has targeted this processor and platform at the $399 price point!

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