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AMD has officially announced its new tablet-specific Z-60 processor, known as Hondo, and it promises rather a lot. In fact, the chip manufacturer claims it will allow you to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on your Windows 8 tablet, at 30 fps on a 1024 x 768 display. Sounds zippy.
AMD claims that the Z-60′s integrated Radeon HD 6250 graphics have five to six times the performance of Intel’s last-gen Atom chips — if that’s really a benchmark worth bragging about — made possible by creating a more power-efficient version of its low-end laptop processors. That’s the opposite approach to Intel, whose Clover Trail tablet processor line is a beefed up version of its Medfield smartphone chip.
The Z-60, then, will pack a dual-core 1GHz chip with 80 graphics cores for video and gaming, and by the sounds of it should hold its own in terms of performance. Sadly, it sounds like AMD’s offering will lag behind Intel when it comes to battery life, though: AMD claims the Z-60 should squeeze 6 hours of 720p HD video playback out of a 30Wh battery, while Intel promises 10 hours. Similarly, Intel claims 3 weeks of standby time, while AMD offers just 2.
All in, it seems like AMD’s processor may pack more punch than Intel’s Clover Trail, at the expense of battery life. It may, of course, come down to a question of cost — at which point it’s not clear just yet who the winner will be. [Verge]
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Don’t pull another Bulldozer, AMD.
All it will take now is for the device manufacturers to squeeze in a little extra battery juice and it wouldn’t make a difference but even if they didn’t, the fact that you still get 2 weeks standby in exchange for better performance isn’t too bad and could very well turn this around this year, for this underdog of tech.
Excellent, a tablet graphically capable of playing play Modern Warfare! Now all it needs is a keyboard and mouse…
Or maybe it just needs to be more like Project Fiona…
http://www.razerzone.com/projectfiona
“at 30 fps on a 1024 x 768 display”
I wouldn’t call that “graphically capable” by any means. The CoD engine is an old Quake 3 build, yeah, near enough the same build seen in Allied Assault and the original CoD. Phones can pump out that kind of performance easily, hell, look at Dead Trigger, runs smooth as silk on my S3, and at a higher resolution than that touted here.
It doesn’t help the whole setup seems gimped. It’s running a 1Ghz dual core with a 6250 chip inside. I wouldn’t dream of putting a 1Ghz dual core chip in a work computer for instance, and a 6250 graphics chip is comparable to Nvidia’s 6xxx series, which came out in early 2004…
Impressive? Not by a long stretch.
No idea why it’s posted it here, but ok!
Except for the fact it’s not at all the old Quake 3 build, yeah it might be based off of id Tech 3 but it ISN’T by any means the same build. At. All.
And besides, what you’re saying is irrelevant. Yeah Dead Trigger might run well on your S3, but it’s a different engine specifically designed to run well on mobile and web applications, MW2 is not.
It has a keyboard, get a £10 bluetooth mouse – solution.
Play Modern warfare on your pc/console – better solution