AMD have outed their latest 2010 Mainstream and Ultrathin Notebook Platforms, together with their 2010 Desktop Platform, and the emphasis looks to be on multimedia strength. The new push brings AMD VISION system – first announced back in September 2009 – to the desktop, with both dual- and quad-core Athlon II CPUs for the mainstream and quad- and six-core Phenom II CPUs for enthusiasts. Meanwhile AMD reckons its new dual-core 23w Turion II Neo and Athlon II Neo, together with the Athlon II Neo chips will be storming the Ultrathin market, while there are twelve new Mainstream notebook CPUs for regular laptops.
AMD say their notebook VISION platforms are delivering twice the graphics performance of an Intel system, and 50-percent better graphics with a discrete ATI GPU than on an Intel system with an NVIDIA GPU. That translates to 20-percent faster photo processing in Photoshop Elements 8 and 37-percent faster DVD transfers. The Ultrathin CPUs will support DDR3 and Direct X 10.1 support, and AMD reckon there’s a reduction of heat output and an increase in battery life up to 8hrs of runtime. Full details on the new range in the gallery.
As for the Mainstream CPUs, they get paired with various GPUs including the ATI Radeon HD 4500 for DirectX 11 support, or Radeon 4200 integrated graphics for systems where power frugality is more important than visual performance. The new chips will show up in notebooks from Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo, among many others, and are also detailed in the gallery below.
Flipping to the desktop, the new CPUs can be paired with ATI Radeon HD 5000 series or higher video cards for DirectX 11 support and gaming performance, or Mobility Radeon 4200 GPUs for more affordable setups. There’s also USB 3.0 support from the newest chipsets. The real news today is that AMD’s VISION system for desktops splits the range into three categories, for easier selection, and will be available in machines from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Toshiba from today.