High-per­for­mance embedded CPUs and GPUs ide­al for com­pu­te inten­si­ve appli­ca­ti­ons and high-end digi­tal gam­ing and signage 

 SUNNYVALE, Calif. — August 20, 2013 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced new CPU offe­rings for the AMD Embedded R‑Series high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting plat­form, along with the intro­duc­tion of a dis­crete GPU pro­mo­tio­nal pro­gram to pro­vi­de embedded desi­gners more choices for mee­ting deman­ding per­for­mance requi­re­ments. The new opti­ons include quad-core and dual-core CPUs sca­ling from 2.2 GHz to 3.2 GHz with Ther­mal Design Power (TDP) ran­ging from 17 to 35 watts for appli­ca­ti­ons that requi­re high per­for­mance x86 com­pu­te such as net­work atta­ched sto­rage (NAS). To address high-end visu­al needs for appli­ca­ti­ons like digi­tal gam­ing and signage that requi­re high-per­for­mance x86 com­pu­te cou­pled with indus­try-lea­ding dis­crete gra­phics, AMD is intro­du­cing a new dis­crete GPU pro­mo­tio­nal pro­gram that pro­vi­des cus­to­mers with both a CPU and dis­crete GPU for savings of up to 20 per­cent¹.

The new AMD R‑Series CPUs offer up to 2.5X grea­ter per­for­mance-per-dol­lar com­pared to Intel i3 pro­ces­sors². The dis­crete gra­phics pro­mo­tio­nal pro­gram com­bi­nes new AMD R‑Series CPUs with dis­crete AMD Rade­on™ E6460 or E6760 gra­phics for dri­ving up to six inde­pen­dent dis­plays³. The­se new opti­ons are desi­gned to pro­vi­de cost-effec­ti­ve solu­ti­ons for maxi­mum com­pu­te and gra­phics capabilities.

“The­re is a need for a grea­ter varie­ty of pro­ces­sor and gra­phics opti­ons in seve­ral mar­ket seg­ments ran­ging from sto­rage to digi­tal signage and gam­ing to meet ever gro­wing per­for­mance requi­re­ments,” said Kamal Khou­ri, direc­tor of Embedded Pro­ducts, AMD. “The AMD Embedded R‑Series CPU plat­form tar­gets per­for­mance-inten­si­ve embedded appli­ca­ti­ons with a new dis­crete gra­phics pro­gram to meet the diver­se, high-per­for­mance requi­re­ments of the embedded engi­nee­ring com­mu­ni­ty. The­se new choices offer hig­her com­pu­te and gra­phics through­put plus com­pel­ling TCO for the embedded market.”

The new AMD Embedded R‑Series CPU opti­ons are curr­ent­ly available, with pro­ducts from Advan­tech, Advan­tech-Inno­co­re, Aewin, DFI, MSC Embedded, Quix­ant and other lea­ding ori­gi­nal design manu­fac­tu­r­ers (ODMs). The new ordera­ble part num­bers (OPNs) are:

AMD Embedded R‑Series RE464X CPU

• Quad-core, 35W TDP, CPU freq. 2.3GHz, Max boost freq. 3.2GHz

AMD Embedded R‑Series RE272X CPU

• Dual-core, 35W TDP, CPU freq. 2.70GHz, Max boost freq. 3.2GHz

AMD Embedded R‑Series RE264X CPU

• Dual-core, 17W TDP, CPU freq. 2.2GHz, Max boost freq. 2.8GHz

Supporting Resources

• Visit the AMD Embedded R‑Series Plat­form site
• Visit the AMD Embedded Solu­ti­ons blog for more back­ground on the new R‑Series
• Get tech­ni­cal sup­port at the AMD Embedded Deve­lo­per Sup­port site
• For more AMD Embedded pro­ducts, visit the AMD-Based Embedded Pro­duct Catalog

About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) designs and inte­gra­tes tech­no­lo­gy that powers mil­li­ons of intel­li­gent devices, inclu­ding per­so­nal com­pu­ters, tablets, game con­so­les and cloud ser­vers that defi­ne the new era of sur­round com­pu­ting. AMD solu­ti­ons enable peo­p­le ever­y­whe­re to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their favo­ri­te devices and appli­ca­ti­ons to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.amd.com.

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1 Up to 20 per­cent pri­ce savings based on cost of pro­mo­tio­nal savings ver­sus purcha­sing the AMD Embedded R‑Series CPU and the dis­crete AMD Rade­on™ GPU separately.

2 Sys­tem Con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on: AMD R‑260H scored 13297 and Intel Core i3-3217U scored 19263, based on EEMBC Core­Mark Mul­ti-thread bench­mark results. Bench­mark result of AMD R‑264X was extra­po­la­ted based on the score of R‑260H taking into account the 100 MHz fre­quen­cy increase (which equa­tes to a ~4.8% CPU per­for­mance impro­ve­ment or appro­xi­m­ate­ly EEMBC score of 13939). DBB pri­ce of AMD R‑264X and Intel Core i3-3217U is $64 and $225 as of August 1, 2013. AMD R‑260H sys­tem used AMD DB-FP2 Deve­lo­p­ment Board, 2x2GB DDR3 memo­ry, 500GB SATA Hard Dri­ve, and ran Ubun­tu ver­si­on 12.04. Intel Core i3-3217U sys­tem con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on used Intel NUC mother­board, 2x4GB DDR3 memo­ry, 500GB SATA Hard Dri­ve, and ran Ubun­tu ver­si­on 11.10.

3 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. Maxi­mum two acti­ve adap­ters sup­port­ed. See www.amd.com/eyefinityfaq for full details.