AMD will be entering the Windows 8 tablet party with its new Z-60 Accelerated Processing Unit ( APU ) .
AMD will compete with Intel's Clover Trail and ARM's offerings with its Z-60 APU . The Z-60 is a dual-core solution clocked at 1GHz and comes along with Radeon class graphics which packs 80 GPU cores . While the Intel's Atom Z2760 aka Clover Trail has 1.8GHz frequency , which might outpace the Z-60 , the Radeon based GPU is likely to beat the Atom in 3D performance .
The increased GPU power in the Z-60 comes at the cost of power consumption , with a 4.5W rating compared to Intels 1.7W for the Z2760 . This could mean lower battery life of AMD powered tablets or heavier weight because of higher capacity battery .
However , we will have to wait till the actual benchmarks and tests are out for the comparisons . Intel based tablets will be launching later this month , but AMD based tablets wont make their way into markets until the end of the year .
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AMD will compete with Intel's Clover Trail and ARM's offerings with its Z-60 APU . The Z-60 is a dual-core solution clocked at 1GHz and comes along with Radeon class graphics which packs 80 GPU cores . While the Intel's Atom Z2760 aka Clover Trail has 1.8GHz frequency , which might outpace the Z-60 , the Radeon based GPU is likely to beat the Atom in 3D performance .
The increased GPU power in the Z-60 comes at the cost of power consumption , with a 4.5W rating compared to Intels 1.7W for the Z2760 . This could mean lower battery life of AMD powered tablets or heavier weight because of higher capacity battery .
However , we will have to wait till the actual benchmarks and tests are out for the comparisons . Intel based tablets will be launching later this month , but AMD based tablets wont make their way into markets until the end of the year .
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