Related Manuals for AMD Richland
Summary of Contents for AMD Richland
- Page 1 “Richland” Client APU PRAVEEN DONGARA, LLOYD BIRCHER, JOHN DARILEK HOT CHIPS 25, AUGUST 2013 PRESENTER PRAVEEN DONGARA PRINCIPAL MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF SYSTEM ARCHITECT...
- Page 2 Additional boost Pstate "Richland" Improvements to Battery Life Other Salient Features AMD Wireless Display Dock Port Technology Results: Performance and Battery Life AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 3 AMD Start Now technology is a BIOS optimized solution designed to deliver a highly responsive system by minimizing the time to wake up the system from sleep mode, boot the system to desktop and connect to a wireless local area network. Actual times will vary based on operating system, APU, driver, disk drive and memory speed. AMD Start Now technology is available with select AMD APUs when running Windows® 7 or Windows® 8. Check with your component or system manufacturer or retailer for specific model capabilities.
- Page 4 AMD TURBO CORE TECHNOLOGY MOTIVATION Die Temp Without AMD Turbo CORE technology, power and temperature headroom may be left untapped in many workload scenarios. Workload1 Workload2 Workload3 AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 5 2013 AMD A-Series APU Measured/Sensor temperature by detecting favorable thermal conditions in real time ("Richland“) Efficiency of power usage by individual entities (CPU, GPU, etc.) AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 6 • interfaces Also account for I/O power influence on each of "Richland" is implemented in a 32-nm the other TEs SOI node2+ high-K metal gate process technology AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
-
Page 7: Power Calculation
POWER CALCULATION Activity from Cac Monitors Power Calculation calculated Cac * V * F + Static Freq Σ Cac = weight * Activity Static = Fn(V,T) calc AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013... - Page 8 (to account for I/O power, etc.) algorithm is designed to enable AMD to deliver robust, dependable, and repeatable performance that is insensitive to part variations. Temp. from other TEs AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 9 (i.e., raise F,V) Pboost1 calculated Pstates Temp.? <> Discrete frequency and calc Limit voltage operating points If T > Limit calc Step down a Pstate (i.e., lower F,V) Pmin AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 10 (EDC/TDC) interval And other throttle F and V limits New Operating F, V Control Loop (similar to above) Control Loop (similar to above) AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 11 • Designed to provide flexibility to processors to fit well in platforms efficiently translate the power (and corresponding frequency) to higher that have thermal solutions designed for higher or lower TDP than performance nominal AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 12 > Limit lower F,V Temp. If T calculated calc calculated Pboost1 Cac Monitors Temp.? <> calc Calculation Calculation Pboost2 Limit Temp. of other Freq New Operating F, V calc AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 13 Over-reporting error needs to be accounted for to allow deterministic higher performance at typical The temperature values above • are for illustrative purposes only thermal environments • may not reflect actual product implementation AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 14 Temp. If T calculated calc calculated Pboost1 Cac Monitors Temp.? <> calc Calculation Calculation Pboost2 Limit Temp. of other Freq New Operating F, V calc cTDP Scalar AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 15 New Operating F, V calc Without Intelligent Boost Control Loop (similar to above) Each control loop independently consumes power Control Loop (similar to above) and raises frequency AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 16 • GPU “reclaims” the saved CPU power through lower effective CPU temperature • System performance should be improved because the GPU is able to operate at a higher frequency Control Loop (similar to above) AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 17 GPU to sustain higher power level 96°C-0.3GHz 96°C-0.75GHz • Total system performance increases Balanced GPU-limited, CPU-limited, CPU using too GPU starved much power CPU Power Allocation AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 18 Temp. If T calculated calc calculated Pboost1 Cac Monitors Temp.? <> calc Calculation Calculation Pboost2 Limit Temp. of other Freq cTDP Scalar New Operating F, V calc AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 19 (APU+FCH) AMD INTERNAL TESTING. System Configurations: Data based on AMD proprietary “Pumori” Reference Design A10-5757M / AMD A10-4600M, AMD Radeon™ 8650G / AMD Radeon™ 7660G, (35W), 2x 2GB, DDR3L-1600, 1.35V, 14.0” eDP 1366x768/ LED Backlight set at 100 nits, HDD (SATA) - 250GB 5400rpm and Windows® 8 64bit. PC manufacturers may vary configuration yielding different results.
- Page 20 Rich audio playback *Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs. PC manufacturers may vary configuration yielding different results. The 2013 AMD A10 “Richland” platform showed latency using AMD Wireless Display of 41 milliseconds (41ms) while the Intel WiDi system showed 201ms. Test used was a browser based stopwatch showing the time difference between the PC screen and display. Systems used were an ASUS N56DY with the AMD A8-5550M APU with AMD Radeon(tm) HD 8550G Graphics, 2x2048 MBytes of DDR3-800.0 MHz (PC3-12800) RAM, Microsoft®...
- Page 21 *Use of 4 1920x1200 external monitors does not support simultaneous USB 3.0 speed. **AMD Eyefinity technology supports up to six DisplayPort™ monitors on an enabled graphics card. Supported display quantity, type and resolution vary by model and board design; confirm specifications with manufacturer before purchase. To enable more than two displays, or multiple displays from a single output, additional hardware such as DisplayPort-ready monitors or DisplayPort 1.2 MST-enabled hubs may be required.
- Page 22 Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs on AMD reference systems. PC manufacturers may vary configuration yielding different results. Specific product configurations used: • AMD 2nd-Generation A-Series APU A10-4600M: AMD “Pumori” reference platform with an AMD A10-4600M Quad Core APU, AMD Radeon™ HD 7660G series graphics, 4GB DDR3-1600 memory, Microsoft® Windows® 7 64bit, Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 •...
- Page 23 HDD, 8.94RC2 Graphics driver (launch configuration) • AMD "Richland" A10-5750M: AMD “Pumori” reference platform with an AMD A10-5750M Quad Core APU, AMD Radeon™ HD 8650G series graphics, 4GB DDR3-1866 memory, Microsoft® Windows® 8 64bit, Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 HDD, 12.100.0.0 Graphics driver •...
- Page 24 Improved battery life AMD INTERNAL TESTING. System Configurations: Data based on “Pumori” Reference Design A10-5757M / AMD A10-4600M, AMD Radeon™ 8650G / AMD Radeon™ 7660G, (35W), 2x 2GB, DDR3L-1600, 1.35V, 14.0” eDP 1366x768/ LED Backlight set at 100 nits, HDD (SATA) - 250GB 5400rpm and Windows® 8 64bit. PC manufacturers may vary configuration yielding different results.
- Page 25 Significant improvement in video playback power Configurable TDP feature introduced to provide system design flexibility to OEMs Dock Port technology introduced Support added for Wi-Fi standards-based wireless display AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 26 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EVOLVING THE PC USER EXPERIENCE Acknowledging the entire "Richland" team at AMD for successful product development and launch ! AMD “RICHLAND” APU | HOT CHIPS 25 | PRAVEEN DONGARA | AUGUST 2013...
- Page 27 BIOS flashes, firmware upgrades, or the like. AMD assumes no obligation to update or otherwise correct or revise this information. However, AMD reserves the right to revise this information and to make changes from time to time to the content hereof without obligation of AMD to notify any person of such revisions or changes.
Need help?
Do you have a question about the Richland and is the answer not in the manual?
Questions and answers