AMD Zacate E-350 Processor Performance Preview
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AMD Brazo Platform, Ontario and Zacate Processors
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AMD E-350 Processor - Zacate @ 1.6GHz and it's tiny.
The version of the chip we looked at specifically was the higher-end 18 Watt chip that will be branded as the E-350 Fusion processor. This incarnation of Fusion goodness runs at 1.6GHz. The 9 Watt version, codenamed Ontario, will be coming to market in Q1 2011. The E-350 has dual "out of order" X86 cores built on a 40nm process technology, with a total of 1MB of L2 cache (512KB per core). The chip also supports full X86-64 extensions and sports a 64-bit FPU as well. On die is also a single channel DDR3 memory controller that is rated up to a 1066MHz interface speed and supports up to two DIMM slots. Finally of course, is AMD's DX11-capable graphics core; specifically a Radeon HD 6310, which also incorporates AMD's new generation UVD3 video decode block that can be found on the recently launched Radeon HD 6800 family of graphics processors.
Paired with the Hudson IO controller chip, or Southbridge, and a few miscellaneous interface chips for things like Gigabit Ethernet and USB3 and you have essentially our full test platform for this performance preview. Speaking of which, let's detail all of our test systems for you, next.
