[Arm-netbook] AMD 2W APU

[Hrvoje Lasic]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Jean-Luc Aufranc <cnxsoft at cnx-software.com
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>  On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 04:12 PM, Hrvoje Lasic wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:08 AM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:54 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 19:43 +0000, luke.leighton wrote:
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>> http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-2014-mobile-apu-2013nov13.aspx
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>> >> at laaaast.
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>> > Read carefully?  It doesn't say 2W - it sez 2x performance.
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>>   roadmap document, page 4.
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>>   “Mullins ” APU
> 2-4 “Puma” CPU Cores
> GCN Graphics Compute Units
> AMD Security Processor
> ~2W SDP
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> For the ultra low power, APU they use SDP (Scenario Design Power), whereas
> for the other processors, they don't mention anything, so I'd guess they
> use TDP (Thermal Design Power).
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> Anandtech says SDP is ~2W, but TDP is 4.5W for AMD Mullins APU.
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> http://www.anandtech.com/show/7514/amd-2014-mobile-apu-update-beema-and-mullins
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> I'm not sure how this can be compared to ARM SoC power consumption, as
> they may use a different metric.
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Hm, you are right, i just googled it. Shady marketing...
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