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Hi folks. I wrote a blogpost (with test data) about Jaguar vs Llano at same clocks (1.5GHz). I tested Llano myself while I sourced Jaguar data from TR, Anandtech as well as PCPer.
Blogpost: http://codedivine.org/2013/05/25/amd-ja ... me-clocks/

Thoughts welcome

Don't forget that Llano has dual-channel. The jaguar core may be starved in some workloads, so even though the execution potential is there, it also depends on the way memory is accessed.

Yeah that is a definite possibility. Perhaps sometime I will hobble the 3500M to a single channel and do the comparisons again

Thanks for posting this information.

If you're looking to expand the test items, what about some benchmarks where Jaguar has hardware support for instructions that Llano doesn't? AES-NI, AVX, etc. Some OpenCL applications might be worth comparing, too.

Voldenuit wrote:

Thanks for posting this information.

If you're looking to expand the test items, what about some benchmarks where Jaguar has hardware support for instructions that Llano doesn't? AES-NI, AVX, etc. Some OpenCL applications might be worth comparing, too.

Well to be honest not sure I will do more tests anytime soon. It was just something I quickly put together to get a ballpark estimate

codedivine wrote:

Hi folks. I wrote a blogpost (with test data) about Jaguar vs Llano at same clocks (1.5GHz). I tested Llano myself while I sourced Jaguar data from TR, Anandtech as well as PCPer.
Blogpost: http://codedivine.org/2013/05/25/amd-ja ... me-clocks/

Thoughts welcome :)

Looking at it from the perspective of a "small, dual-issue [low-power]" core, this is very impressive.

Looking at it from the perspective of "new hardware from AMD", particularly with respect to this processor's inclusion in the new game consoles, these numbers are a little disappointing -- although not at all unexpected. Would have liked to have seen Kaveri in the new consoles. ┐(´∀｀)┌

The consoles are already $500, do you want them to be $700?

Game_boy wrote:

The consoles are already $500, do you want them to be $700?

Hehe, no, and there's the power consumption angle too. Llano's old Stars cores are absolute dogs in terms of perf/watt.

Llano/Trinity/Richland also have up to a 100w power envelope to Kabinis 25w max, so there's that too.

(as I see was kinda mentioned already )