AMD Trinity Laptop

[HTWingNut]

Depends on if the 13" has the 17W or 25W GPU. Don't know if 35W would be possible, but the 35W would offer a significant improvement.

See here: AMD Slips Out Trinity ULV 3DMark Performance | techPowerUp

25W 3DMark 3600
17W 3DMark 1500

Assuming those scores are Vantage.

[Nemix77]

@ Syberia

I'm guessing the fastest Trinity APU 3.2Ghz Turbo will be faster than your 740QM in both single and multi-core applications.

Judging by the link on 3DMark provided above the onboard graphics with DDR3-1333 should be slower than your slightly slower than your 5730 and faster with DDR3-1600.

Just like with Llano, the fastest Trinity APU's will probably only be available in 15.6" and 17.3". Battery life should be the same as Llano and bit less than Ivy Bridge.

[Syberia]

Just curious - have any Trinity notebooks been announced as of yet?

[HTWingNut]

Originally Posted by Nemix77

@ Syberia

I'm guessing the fastest Trinity APU 3.2Ghz Turbo will be faster than your 740QM in both single and multi-core applications.

Judging by the link on 3DMark provided above the onboard graphics with DDR3-1333 should be slower than your slightly slower than your 5730 and faster with DDR3-1866.

Just like with Llano, the fastest Trinity APU's will probably only be available in 15.6" and 17.3". Battery life should be the same as Llano and bit less than Ivy Bridge.

I don't know about battery life. As it is my Llano system drains only about 13W with medium screen brightness, wi-fi on, and general browsing and desktop work. I can get it down to about 11W if really necessary without Wi-fi, etc.

Originally Posted by Syberia

Just curious - have any Trinity notebooks been announced as of yet?

Nothing has been announced. We don't even know for sure when Trinity is going to be released or finalized details. Although they have piped up about making sub $500 "ultrathins" to compete with Intel's "ultrabooks".

[Althernai]

Originally Posted by Syberia

Just curious - have any Trinity notebooks been announced as of yet?

No. At CES, AMD said that they will come out in mid 2012 which means they currently have prototypes, but the chips have not yet entered mass production. Thus, almost everything in this thread is speculation.

[Bullit]

If you need OpenGL wait to verify if Trinity runs OpenGL in best card of the system. The Llano doesn't . And with WebGL around the corner...

[HTWingNut]

Originally Posted by Bullit

If you need OpenGL wait to verify if Trinity runs OpenGL in best card of the system. The Llano doesn't . And with WebGL around the corner...

It DIDN'T because it wasn't supported by the manufacturer. Have it running OpenGL just fine with the dedicated cards now.

[DEagleson]

My brother never saved enough cash for a Llano based notebook but im guessing Trinity will be kept on the same pricepoint.
Looking forward to benchies.

[davidricardo86]

Originally Posted by HTWingNut

It DIDN'T because it wasn't supported by the manufacturer. Have it running OpenGL just fine with the dedicated cards now.

It wasn't supported by AMD? Or it wasn't supported by the computer manufacturer (dell, hp, asus, etc.)?

I just hope Trinity APUs support OpenGL so it can play Minecraft.

[HTWingNut]

Originally Posted by davidricardo86

It wasn't supported by AMD? Or it wasn't supported by the computer manufacturer (dell, hp, asus, etc.)?

I just hope Trinity APUs support OpenGL so it can play Minecraft.

The Llano APU's support OpenGL. The issue was that it would ALWAYS use the integrated GPU and not the dedicated. Minecraft runs great using the Llano APU GPU or whatever it's called, lol.

With the help of an uber user at another forum he unlocked the HP BIOS and now we can turn on fixed graphics. Set it to dedicated GPU and OpenGL runs great.