First public demonstration of 32nm ‘Llano’ unveils high-performance AMD Fusion APU

AMD demonstrated the Llano APU at its Technical Forum in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a 32nm single die combining 4 Phenom II-type cores with powerful DX11 graphics.

The video of the Llano demo shows three compute-intensive workloads running simultaneously on Windows 7:
- multi-threaded calculation of the value of Pi to 32 million decimal places
- decoding 1080p HD video from a Blu-ray disc
-  n-body DirectCompute particle effect using both GPU and CPU cores (Microsoft’s equivalent to OpenCL)  , achieving around 30 GFLOPS (a relative measure of the available capacity to assist the CPU cores to accelerate a non-graphics application).

AMD aims to bring this level of raw compute power to mainstream PC users in 2011.