AMD Leo platform to arrive next year

Posted on Tuesday, September 01 2009 @ 19:32 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
VR Zone has details about Leo, a new Socket AM3 based platform that will replace AMD's Dragon platform in 2010. AMD's Leo will feature new 45nm multi-core AM3 processors, the AMD 890FX/GX + SB850 chipsets and the Radeon HD 5800 series DirectX 11 graphics cards.
The new chipsets gonna sport several key features like improved Crossfire performance, ATI Stream and OpenCL support, next gen. Hybrid Crossfire, enhanced overclocking through AMD Fusion II with OverDrive and Black Edition memory profiles. Other neat features include the support for SATA 6Gbps, USB 3.0, Integrated Broadcom MAC, FIS based switching.


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