What are the advantages and disadvantages of AMD APU platform compared to Intel s platform?

In terms of floating-point computing power, Intel processors generally only have two floating-point execution units, while AMD processors are generally designed with three parallel floating-point execution units, so among processors of the same grade, the floating-point computing power of AMD processors is better than that of Intel processors. It has strong floating-point arithmetic capabilities, which is advantageous for game applications and 3D processing applications. In addition, in terms of multi-** instructions, Intel has developed the SSE instruction set, which has been developed so far, and AMD has accordingly developed an enhanced 3D now!, which is compatible with SSE

Instruction set. In contrast, Intel processors are slightly better than AMD's in terms of multi-instruction, and there are many software optimized for SSE, so in multi-** software and plane processing software, compared with AMD processors of the same grade, Intel processors appear to have more advantages. In addition, what kind of CPU to choose,** is a more critical factor, in terms of performance, the same grade of Intel processor as a whole may have a little advantage over AMD's processor, but in terms of **, AMD's processor is absolutely superior.

For example: Intel's E7500** is about 700 yuan, and the AMD X2 550 with similar performance is only about 600, compared to the AMD processor is more cost-effective.

APU is a new generation of processing chips, integrating CPU and GPU to have stronger floating-point computing power, while greatly reducing power consumption, compared to the Atom platform. In the era of CPU overcapacity, low power consumption and long standby are the preferred indicators for notebook platforms, so APU is indeed a milestone product at this stage. It is expected that the 2nd generation APU will bring better performance and lower power consumption.

AMD's CPU heat dissipation is already large, and if you add the GPU to his heat dissipation, I think the APU is still a little worse if you play large games for a long time.

M2 has an 8-core CPU, which is 18% better than M1.

At the same power consumption, the performance of the M2 is nearly 2 times faster than that of a 10-core PC processor. It also comes with a 10-core GPU that delivers up to 35% faster performance than the M1 and supports multiple 4K and 8K** clips. At the same power consumption, the M2's GPU performance is twice as fast as that of a 10-core PC processor.

M2 uses a new generation of enhanced 5nm process technology, with a maximum of 20 billion transistors, 25% more than M1, and is much larger in size, and its performance has also made a comprehensive leap, which is likely to be the most powerful processor at present.

Performance comparison

Compared with the 12-core PC chip, the M2 only needs about 1 4 power consumption of the former, and can have 90% of the performance of the former, allowing the notebook to maintain a long-lasting battery life while releasing stronger performance. In addition, the M2 chip also has 100GB of bandwidth, which is 50% higher than that of M1, and up to 24GB of unified memory. It has a built-in next-generation neural network engine, which can perform 100 million computing operations per second, which is 40% faster than M1.

In terms of data, the M2 achieves an all-round performance leap compared to the M1, and the overall performance improvement is more significant thanks to the larger memory and bandwidth. But the most important point is its power consumption, which can be said to be significantly lower than the M1, even if it is not equipped with a special cooling system, it can also give the M2 peak performance, and it is not too much to call it the most powerful processor on the surface.

Whether it is a popular online game, a large-scale stand-alone game, or a common software such as Photoshop CS4 and IE9 that require GPU acceleration, it can show better graphics processing capabilities than products at the same price, bringing users a smoother application experience.

What's even more gratifying is that the laptop with AMD APU also has a long enough battery life to keep it full of power and computing speed when we need to go to a customer's company proposal during the day, and when we need documents on an international flight. And we can safely use the laptop on our lap without worrying about any heating up.

It is understood that AMD APU will be widely used in notebooks of various sizes, especially in the field of inches, it has a significant competitive advantage, and has a large market space. If you're thinking about a laptop that's small and portable, has a long standby time, and performs well at the same time, these AMD APUs are a great choice.

The first is that Intel is very well-known, especially people who don't know much about computer hardware generally know about Intel. AMD advertises relatively little in China, so its popularity is relatively low;

The second is some misinformation for a long time, such as the so-called good stability of Intel and the lack of stability of AMD. This is a misunderstanding at all. Even if AMD's CPU stability was indeed a little worse than Intel's in the past, it would be nonsense to say that AMD is unstable now.

AMD's technology is more avant-garde than Intel's, take APU as an example, this thing is for the future of converged computing, that is, CPU and GPU joint computing. And it also uses a very rare modular architecture, which Intel does not dare to do.

The third is that there is too much difference in strength between the two. Intel is hugely rich, and AMD has always refused to admit defeat and fight. There used to be several CPU manufacturers in the world, and now Intel and AMD are left.

So invest in R&D or something, Intel's product line is naturally richer, but the factors of the uncle's trading, Intel's cost performance... I can only snort.

Originally, Intel was the boss.

In the high-end segment, now AMD CPUs are not Intel's opponents at all.

That's it.

I think the APU platform is a continuation of the traditional platform, and AMD loses because the architecture is not as good as Intel.

Intel's QPI bus allows any two cores to communicate, which is colloquially said to be an overpass, while the AMD architecture is still stuck on a two-way sidewalk (HT bus), and the cores still rely on L2 and L3 communication between the cores.

Fortunately, AMD acquired ATI in 06 and resisted the competition of NV in terms of graphics cards. And through the income of the graphics card, it is struggling to resist the blow of Intel.

AMD realized that it could not compete with Intel in terms of performance, so it took a roundabout way to compete with Intel in the form of a horse race. Open-core, APU is one such example.

Now let's talk about the APU, the APU is at best integrated with the GPU in the CPU, and this GPU is stronger than the competitor's, which is suitable for some users who are not willing to spend money on a discrete graphics card and have a certain demand for games. And the APU also has a secret**, use the GPU to assist the CPU acceleration (heterogeneous computing system), you can go to the Pacific Computer Network to see, through the software settings optimization, compression test APU even more than i5!

There is also Microsoft for AMD to send Win8 in time, Windows 8 is widely used in hardware acceleration functions, which happens to be the strength of APU.

Under the APU, there is not much difference, and it can even be said that there is no big difference, they are all used the same

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