I was under the impression that most Displayport ports can just be converted to DVI or HDMI using a passive dongle. Is this actually an uncommon feature? Admittedly, I don't remember seeing the DP++ logo advertised, although I've never really bothered to look for it.Reply
Via Single-link DVI (1920x1200, 1920x1080) that is correct. However, if you want higher resolutions, you need an active converter. This, I believe, is the biggest fault of Displayport. Reply
OK, I'm not saying it's useless. Obviously a single core Atom is hopeless:- I'm simply saying that surely turbo-core on the CPU would prove more useful - this isn't exactly a gaming platform, and I'm sure the CPU will get taxed far more often than the GPU in normal usage.Reply
I'm a E-350 user and I agree with you. Who really buy these CPUs for gaming anyway? Heck, for people who do Flash games (which I'd argue people buying this is more likely to play anyway) you'd want a more power CPU.Reply
Flash is now GPU accelerated, some tests I saw showed CPU utilization drop from 90 to 20 percent using GPUs instead of CPUs, I think this is the direction things are headed.Reply
Me and many others buy these for gaming. Anyone who wants a light, inexpensive laptop that can run some games. Older games run okay, and I tried Everquest II and City of Heroes on my Thinkpad X120e, and both are reasonably playable (not great) at native resolution.
A slight increase in clocks might be just what's needed to make borderline playable into playable.Reply
so i have two acer laptops one with E350 and one with i3-2310...
to my surprise, the E350 system provides smoother, albeit, slower operation. it was a real surprise to me.
maybe its the intel drivers? maybe its the different power saving modes? but for a 100 dollars less and a netbook-class processor the E350 system is more enjoyable for daily operation!Reply
In single threaded tasks the E350 is about 50% faster than the atom, it's overall performance is slightly ahead of the D510 dual core 4 thread atom. With a 36% turbo the E450 should be able to burst to ~2.2x as fast on single threaded tasks giving it a large edge in user world apps.
But it is 'piss-weak', considering its rather high TDP (now to be utilized to the max.) and not-so-high IPC rate combined with very modest clockspeed.
Assume there was a way for AMD to "fuse" two of these together to get a 4-core, 160 SP Brazos chip with a TDP of 38W. How would such an imaginary chip fare against say SB i5 2500T (TDP of 45W) ? Graphics would likely be on par while it would get soundly trashed in CPU and memory performance amd Intel's notes regarding 22 nm process node and its power consumption indicate that cherry-picked desktop IB should be capable of beating Brazos at its own game, the low power consumption.Reply
Should point out that AMD Turbo Core works by over clocking one core but under clocks the other to balance out the power usage. So only the GPU will be getting a full over clock. While the CPU will only boost single core operations.
While the feature is also similar to Intel's Turbo Boost. So only active when the system thinks it needs it and may be effected by system heat levels for duration time of the boost.Reply
It would be interesting to see how well this works out in practice. The C-60 can be considerably better than the C-50, at least on paper, so let's hope also in practice.Reply
They cannot even bump the clock speed to 2Ghz (or better still 2.4Ghz) and put 160 gpu cores in there. I would not call the E450 an update maybe it should be named E350-2 instead!. What a huge disappointment!.Reply
So does the eSata port from this intergrated Soc have built in eSata port multiplier/FIS support or bloody what? What about 'AMD-Vi/IOMMU/VT-d so I might be able to run a decently fast mini virtual server?
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ltcommanderdata - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
I was under the impression that most Displayport ports can just be converted to DVI or HDMI using a passive dongle. Is this actually an uncommon feature? Admittedly, I don't remember seeing the DP++ logo advertised, although I've never really bothered to look for it. Replyquiksilvr - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
Via Single-link DVI (1920x1200, 1920x1080) that is correct. However, if you want higher resolutions, you need an active converter. This, I believe, is the biggest fault of Displayport. Replypiroroadkill - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
With a piss-weak CPU. Surely both should be able to boost up to a fixed total TDP level.. Come on AMD! Replydamianrobertjones - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
I wouldn't call it 'piss-weak'. I'd call a single core Atom weak but with a nice SSD the C50 in the Acer W500 does well. Replypiroroadkill - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
OK, I'm not saying it's useless. Obviously a single core Atom is hopeless:- I'm simply saying that surely turbo-core on the CPU would prove more useful - this isn't exactly a gaming platform, and I'm sure the CPU will get taxed far more often than the GPU in normal usage. Replyyuchai - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
I'm a E-350 user and I agree with you. Who really buy these CPUs for gaming anyway? Heck, for people who do Flash games (which I'd argue people buying this is more likely to play anyway) you'd want a more power CPU. ReplyWierdo - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
Flash is now GPU accelerated, some tests I saw showed CPU utilization drop from 90 to 20 percent using GPUs instead of CPUs, I think this is the direction things are headed. ReplyET - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
Me and many others buy these for gaming. Anyone who wants a light, inexpensive laptop that can run some games. Older games run okay, and I tried Everquest II and City of Heroes on my Thinkpad X120e, and both are reasonably playable (not great) at native resolution.A slight increase in clocks might be just what's needed to make borderline playable into playable. Reply
oceanrock - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - link
so i have two acer laptops one with E350 and one with i3-2310...to my surprise, the E350 system provides smoother, albeit, slower operation. it was a real surprise to me.
maybe its the intel drivers? maybe its the different power saving modes? but for a 100 dollars less and a netbook-class processor the E350 system is more enjoyable for daily operation! Reply
sinigami - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - link
for giggles, would you mind comparing your E350 against your 2310m, on this small Java benchmark?http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/run.html
sorry for asking more than one person, just scared that no one will even notice or read my plea... Reply
sinigami - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - link
sorry to bother you, but i'm going crazy wishing i could find someone that would report their E-350 score for a little Java science benchie...would you mind taking a second to hit up http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/run.html and tell us what your thinkpad scores?
it runs inside your browsers JVM.
seems all browsers show the same performance, so it is browser agnostic. Reply
sinigami - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - link
i do java on the move... completely curious how the E-350 does java... can you or someone please run NIST's small java scimark?http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/run.html
use pulldown to select "Show Table" to see the overall score.
Thanks! Reply
DanNeely - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
In single threaded tasks the E350 is about 50% faster than the atom, it's overall performance is slightly ahead of the D510 dual core 4 thread atom. With a 36% turbo the E450 should be able to burst to ~2.2x as fast on single threaded tasks giving it a large edge in user world apps.http://www.anandtech.com/show/4134/the-brazos-revi... Reply
Arnulf - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - link
But it is 'piss-weak', considering its rather high TDP (now to be utilized to the max.) and not-so-high IPC rate combined with very modest clockspeed.Assume there was a way for AMD to "fuse" two of these together to get a 4-core, 160 SP Brazos chip with a TDP of 38W. How would such an imaginary chip fare against say SB i5 2500T (TDP of 45W) ? Graphics would likely be on par while it would get soundly trashed in CPU and memory performance amd Intel's notes regarding 22 nm process node and its power consumption indicate that cherry-picked desktop IB should be capable of beating Brazos at its own game, the low power consumption. Reply
fishman - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
I picked up an Acer 722 netbook on friday. It came with the AMD C-60 (it was advertised to have the C-50), so it is already available. ReplyOS - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
i got one of those Acers also, its kind of a lobsided system, the gpu is pretty powerful but the cpu less so. Replyzeo - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
Should point out that AMD Turbo Core works by over clocking one core but under clocks the other to balance out the power usage. So only the GPU will be getting a full over clock. While the CPU will only boost single core operations.While the feature is also similar to Intel's Turbo Boost. So only active when the system thinks it needs it and may be effected by system heat levels for duration time of the boost. Reply
ET - Monday, August 22, 2011 - link
It would be interesting to see how well this works out in practice. The C-60 can be considerably better than the C-50, at least on paper, so let's hope also in practice. Replyparkerm35 - Thursday, September 01, 2011 - link
At the moment they are using 40nm fab, can you imagine how good these things will become when they switch to 28nm, which is just months away!!! Replyfteoath64 - Wednesday, September 07, 2011 - link
They cannot even bump the clock speed to 2Ghz (or better still 2.4Ghz) and put 160 gpu cores in there. I would not call the E450 an update maybe it should be named E350-2 instead!. What a huge disappointment!. ReplySCComega - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - link
Umm... isn't that the A4 series? Or haven't you paid attention to the rest of the AMD fusion line.For a netbook processor, the E450 is pretty darn fast. If you want that speed, go up to the A4/6/8. Reply
thebeastie - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - link
So does the eSata port from this intergrated Soc have built in eSata port multiplier/FIS support or bloody what?What about 'AMD-Vi/IOMMU/VT-d so I might be able to run a decently fast mini virtual server?
Hate it when there is never any real detail. Reply