AMD relaunched the Brazos platfomr with a more efficient chipset that was cheaper to produce and thus sell, together with two new new APUs with marginally improved specifications. AMD has now presented another model for Q4.
Brazos is the most succesful platform in the history of AMD. This, together with manufacturing problems at GlobalFoundries, made AMD relaunch the platform as Brazos 2.0 woth a more efficient and cheaper chipset, but the APU was the exact same, but just slightly higher frequencies.
| Modell | E1-1200 | E2-1800 | E2-2000 |
| Code name |
Zacate | ||
| Processor architecture |
Bobcat | ||
| Manufacturing process |
40nm | ||
| Processor cores |
2 | ||
| Frequency | 1.4 GHz | 1.7 GHz | 1.75 GHz |
| L2 cache | 2 x 512 KB | ||
| Graphics architecture |
VLIW5 | ||
| Graphics | HD 7310 | HD 7340 | ? |
| Radeon cores | 80 | ||
| Graphics frequency |
500 MHz | 523 MHz | 538 MHz |
| Graphics frequency(Turbo) | – | 680 MHz | 700 MHz |
| Memory support |
DDR3-1066 | DDR3-1333 | |
| TDP | 18W | ||
Fudzilla now reports that the company has another model coming in Q4. The processor cores of E2-2000 will be boosted by 50 MHz, while results in 1.75 GHz. This is the same meager boost every new top model has been given. Also the graphics circuit has been boosted by15 MHz in base and 20 MHz in Turbo.
Support for DirectX 11, UVD3 and OpenCL are all there along with software functions Quick Stream and Steady Video. You won’t lose anything if you get a Brazos 2.0 system today, but the big news will not come until 2013 with Kabini. Kabini was first intended to become AMD’s third generation energy efficient low-end processor, building on new manufacturing technology with an improved processor architecture with more cores and a graphics processor based on the latest GCN architecture.
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