It is purpose-engineered for professionals who run compute and graphics intensive workloads and require extreme performance with remote capability.

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Fusion blends (fuses) traditional x86 computing cores, which compute things serially or one after the other, with graphics processors, which compute them in parallel or all at the same time.

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"Our second-generation product delivers double the compute performance and up to three times the graphics capabilities1, all while maintaining competitive low power, " Eul said.

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This API is all about improving mobile graphics through making smarter use of GPU compute, without annoying the battery, and the three demos after the break show just how it pulls that off.

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Engineered for Performance: AMD App Acceleration drives GPU-accelerated features in Windows 8 improving graphics performance and application speed, while advanced GPU compute capabilities enable users to run multiple applications smoothly, enjoy beautifully rich and clear video playback, and revel in lightning-fast game play.

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Excelling at compute and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), these solutions redefine data center graphics capability while consuming 95 percent less power at idle and dramatically cutting data center operating costs(4).

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For the simple reason that the Korean company still makes its own chips, based on ARM designs, and we've seen that GPU compute is going to be a big feature in its coming Exynos 5 processor with Mali T604 graphics.

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The GPU contains a unified array of 18 compute units, which collectively generate 1.84 Teraflops of processing power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two.

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