Feature of the compact gaming video card

No more “leaks” and rumors. The compact gaming video card presented quite formally. The novelty of the type mini-ITX and can boast small length (within 150 mm).

The board has support for 4K, as well as Fiji chip and 4 GB of memory HBM with 1 GHz.

The compact gaming video card graphics system has 64 raster operator units and 256 texture units. Plus 4096 stream processors. This allows us to demonstrate performance comparable with the flagship Radeon R9 Fury X.

In addition, Radeon R9 Nano is 30% faster than Radeon R9 290X – cards of the previous generation. It is claimed by the developers.

The device has an air-cooled and 8-pin connector for additional power supply. As for the value of TDP, this parameter is equal to 175 watts. Once on the board located one HDMI and three DisplayPort.

The compact gaming video card AMD Radeon R9 Nano is pretty remarkable features. In the future, we hope that the gaming video cards will be even smaller. Sales start in the coming days. The price information is not available.

Source: kitguru

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How long postponed the development of Custom graphics?

At the very least, that such a conclusion can be drawn from the fact that the Korean manufacturer has concluded a licensing agreement for the use of ARM graphics in the next 5 years. And considering how much money had to pay Samsung chip maker, the company would not have gone on this step if, in the foreseeable future could release its own graphics processor.

In other words, Samsung is hardly going to produce its own plan in the next 4-5 years. We still do not know what it was the related delay. But such a long time explicitly says that Samsung is not able to solve the problems. And it is possible that the graphics processor developed by the company proved to be less productive than expected in the Samsung.

The agreement with Samsung once again proves that the ARM is a reliable and promising partner and manufactured by ARM Mali graphics processors outperform graphics Adreno and PowerVR. On the other hand, Samsung is clearly not going to abandon plans to build of Custom graphics. But the determination of the Korean manufacturer explicitly says that the team has replenished Samsung engineers used to work on NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. Therefore, its own graphics processor Samsung is only a matter of time.

Source: Myinforms

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Interesting features of Project Quantum

Dimensions of the device resembles a console. Only the new much more powerful consoles. The product supports a resolution of 4K, and in any game of guarantees at least 60 frames per second. If you believe the developers, of course. It sounds interesting.

As the mini-PC reaches similar results? Thanks to the best components of AMD, combined into one system. The basis of the gadget – an unnamed 64-bit processor and two graphics accelerator Fiji mode CrossFire.

These adapters can boast a decent amount of video memory type HBM. Namely – 8 GB. Enough for all hits of the season.

Clearly, such a productive assembly requires a decent cooling. Project Quantum uses fluid rather than the usual air. In this case, the switch to SVO is justified.

Verdict Project Quantum

In the role of the operating system performs Windows 10. Unfortunately, there is no information yet about the device. Pricing and full specifications will be revealed later this year.

Source: SlashGear

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During the conference, developers APU13, AMD announced that APU Kaveri, the world’s first processors with heterogeneous architectures – CPU and GPU with a common pool of system memory available on a single chip will be available in January 2014.

It is known that the four processor cores (two modules Steamroller) flagship A10-7850K will work with a clock speed of 3.7 GHz. The processors will be manufactured at the production facilities at rates GlobalFoundries 28nm process technology and will need to run the new motherboards with socket FM2 +.

As mentioned above, the main feature of the fourth generation of hybrid processors AMD is the revolutionary heterogeneous architecture HSA. In the APU Kaveri implemented architecture HSA 2.0. In short, in the configuration of the APU Kaveri includes CPU (two modules Steamroller) and GPU (graphics eight blocks (512 stream processors) Radeon architecture GSN 1.1). In this case, the CPU and GPU interact through technology hUMA (heterogeneous unified memory), which provides them with access to a shared pool of system memory, and more importantly – the ability to read the results of each other’s work directly from memory without the need for additional software. This allows you to throw out the process a huge number of intermediate steps and quickly work together to perform the operation.

In theory, HSA and hUMA is quite promising bunch, which gives developers full control and allows you to use not only the possibility of CPU, but also take full advantage of GPU. At the moment, to solve problems in the graphics part of the GPU using only browsers and image editor Photoshop.

As planned by AMD, HSA 2.0 architecture is to facilitate the process of unloading and handling of daily tasks in graphic blocks, but here again it all depends on the software developers and the programs that use heterogeneous computing. In practice, given sufficiently small market share AMD, the overall performance gain is likely to be minimal. However, “white-green” promise to developers with the tools that will accelerate the process of promoting the HSA, including compiler Linux GCC / HSA. Unfortunately, at present it is difficult to judge how good this compiler and how many developers have worked to optimize the programs under the HSA 2.0. It should be noted that the HSA is an open standard and can use microprocessors and signal processors ARM. Despite this, most of all, AMD’s promotion HSA will take years.

Unfortunately, at this moment it is unknown whether any relation to the family Kaveri hybrid processors AMD, which are used in video game consoles, PS4 and Xbox One, and they were created with an eye to the HSA 2.0.

Finally it is worth noting that the processors support Kaveri API Mantle, who, AMD advances since the announcement of the series graphics cards AMD Radeon R9 and R7 .

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The compact 11.6-inch laptops do not often get in our test lab. The average user mostly purchased a 15.6-inch models, more experienced and prepared, as a rule, prefer the 13.3-inch laptops, and representatives of the smallest class remember the last thing. And yet, in these models is very slim usage model in which the office or at home you connect an external monitor to your laptop, providing a fulfilling workplace and on the road trip, or take it with a minimum configuration, saving space and weight in carry-on luggage.

In the family of laptops Acer Aspire V5 includes models of three form factors – compact 11.6-inch ultraporty and 14 years, and 15.6-inch sredneformatniki. Moreover, as the hardware platform can be used by processors from Intel and AMD, so the choice of a particular configuration noutubka should be given special attention. In this review we will focus on the 11.6-inch Acer Aspire V5-123 on energy-efficient platform from AMD.

Options

Laptop Acer Aspire V5-123 comes standard with a set of package documentation and compact “monoblock” power with a single wire and a removable plug.

Design

Caught on the test Acer Aspire V5 is made ​​predominantly in silver, but available on the market and other color variants of registration. Top cover is decorated with laminated plastic, which is more resistant to scratches than the regular glossy. Smooth surface quickly collects fingerprints, but pollution will be clearly visible only in the dark version of design, in this case, the prints can be seen only at a certain angle view.

Lower housing Acer Aspire V5 is made ​​of a practical rough black plastic. The distal portion is allocated under a removable battery compartment capacity of 37 Wh, and the need to move the clip to use a pen or other small object. Most of the bottom of the case is to upgrade the hatch, dotted with holes for ventilation. After proximal to the leading edge of the hole clearly visible pair of speakers. 

The rear face of the housing Acer Aspire V5-free connectors on the front rendered three indicators of activity and edge single button touchpad.

On the right side wall can be found under the Kensington lock hole, the charger, a pair of connectors USB 2.0, audio ports combined and almost invisible due to rounding sidewall card reader with plug-sled. The left side panel contains a video D-sub, network RJ45, another HDMI video output and a “fast” port USB 3.0. At the same bend near the front panel submitted radiator cooling system.

Display

Because of the tight hinge cover Acer Aspire V5 unable to open with one hand, but the display unit can be practically put on the table, ensuring that the maximum angle of inclination. The inside of the display unit is made by the classical scheme with a fairly narrow edging of black glossy plastic.

Officially for the model proposed several modifications display with a matte or glossy finish, touch screen and even the IPS-matrix, but for the most part you will encounter a typical glossy TN-matrix. In particular, the samples tested Acer Aspire V5 -123 installed matte TN-matrix with a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels and a brightness range from 15 to 180 cd/m2.

Ergonomics

Operating panel Acer Aspire V5 is framed in a contrasting style, it sets off the black surface of the silver island keyboard and the top of the battery into the top of the panel. Note that in spite of the natural silver color operation panel is made of colored plastic that can be quickly scratched with a sloppy operation.

The keyboard layout is typical for a 11.6-inch notebook – the size of the symbol keys almost hurt, but not all service buttons are in place. The most “narrow” place the keyboard – too small block arrow keys, with which we do not only move the cursor on the four sides and use the buttons Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, but also in addition adjust the volume and display brightness.

Touchpad Acer Aspire V5 is quite good for its size, and the successful construction of a single hardware button allows you to press it, not only from above, but also on the front.

Functionality

As we have already mentioned, the model Acer Aspire V5 can be built on a hardware logic from Intel or AMD. In terms of performance in the initial configurations, it really is comparable to netbooks, which is so like, so if you want a more powerful solution, you should initially look closely to the higher-level models based on the Intel Core and AMD Ax.

In our case, the Acer Aspire V5 -123 comes with an economical dual-core AMD E1-2100 with an operating frequency of 1 GHz and a maximum power consumption in Wh 9, performed on a 28 nm process technology. Graphics integrated into the processor, it’s Radeon HD 8210 with an operating frequency of 300 MHz, the performance of which is only enough for simple games. Also, the laptop is equipped with 4GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive.

Battery Eater

In this configuration, the laptop showed expectedly low results in popular benchmarks.

The battery capacity of 37 Wh model could hold out for three hours in maximum load, and almost five and a half hours in the emulation mode of reading.

The results

As a result, Acer Aspire V5 – is a compact 11.6-inch notebook, which, depending on the hardware configuration (and of course the cost), you can replace a netbook or a mobile home working laptop for business trips.

Liked

+ Cute design, multiple color options
+ Versions exist with IPS-screen
+ Full set of connectors (3xUSB, RJ45, D-sub, HDMI)
+ Removable battery door for upgrade

Do not like it

– Productivity in the initial configurations
– Too small block arrows

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Radeon series GPU up to now has been named several major revision, the current HD series has come to 7000, Mobile platforms also forego the use of the 8000 series numbers, but according to the news that, AMD will be published in the next new product with a new naming.

We already know that GPU Codename will, as we reported previously in “Hawaii”, “Curacao”, “Oland” three kinds, currently Cruracao will use in the past been used on the HD7800’s Pitcairm architecture.

In naming the part numbers will not continue to push down, but will use a similar Youshang Intel on the CPU (Core i3, i5, i7) or AMD’s own APU (A4, A6, A8, A10) used above segment named.

According to the news that we have received, GPU aspect may appear R9-XXXX, R8-XXXX and his ilk are named, so it looks more like inspiration from the APU above, directly to A substitution for the Radeon prefix R . This message is correct, I believe they will know a few months remains to be seen.

Another recent interest APU not vanishing part of a hearing that is what is not good rumors.

Also you can see the second half of the original desktop mainstream Kaveri APU, will be postponed to February 2014, so that the market share for AMD will have a negative impact I think is still there, longer the window can also allow the opponent an opportunity to introduce more Haswell architecture of the low-end products to conquer new territories.

Perhaps this is only going to rely on AMD this year Xbox and PlayStation 4 is a sign?

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