Unlike the Brazos APU low-power platform, the AMD Llano APU mainstream platform will use a more powerful processor and graphics core, facing the mainstream desktop and mobile areas, but also a new secret weapon.
Llano APU integrated graphics performance level is roughly equivalent to Radeon HD 5500-5600 series, to meet the low-end mainstream gaming applications. If you don't think enough, you can also add a Radeon HD 6000 series discrete graphics card (Northern Islands) of any type to form a new version of "Hybrid Crossfire". With the use of a common SIMD architecture and driver, it is possible to significantly enhance 3D performance, parallel computing performance, and support the OpenCL 1.1 specification.
Whether it can be used with Radeon HD 5000 series discrete graphics is not yet confirmed. Theoretically, there should be no problem, but NVIDIA graphics cards are definitely not going to work.
On the other hand, Llano APU provides a PCI-E 2.0 x16 port channel, which can be configured by itself, and additionally provides four digital display interfaces to achieve more flexible multi-screen output, support HDMI 1.4, DisplayPort 1.2 and other standard specifications and Blu-ray 3D Stereoscopic technology, next-generation AMD Eyefinity technology.
Previously exposed Llano APU performance also received new evidence. According to AMD, the dual-core version Llano with its integrated Beavercreek graphics core is roughly equivalent to or slightly better than the Core i3-540 and Radeon HD 5550 in terms of daily performance, graphics performance, and computing performance, but if the former is changed The mainstream model “Turks†on the Radeon HD 6000 series discrete graphics cards will have a significant performance improvement in graphics performance and computing performance, which can exceed 60% of the competitors.