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AMD Leo 2010 Platform - Enthusiasts' Dream Setup?

Reported by on Tuesday, September 1 2009 1:55 pm

AMD plans to transit from the current Dragon AM3 platform to Leo platform in April 2010. The new platform is made up of a slew of faster 45nm multi-core AM3 CPUs to be released next year coupled with the new AMD 890FX/GX + SB850 chipsets as well as the DX11 graphics cards; Hemlock and Cypress (Radeon HD 5800 series). The new chipsets gonna sport several key features like improved Crossfire performance, ATI Stream and OpenCL support, next gen. Hybrid Crossfire, enhanced overclocking through AMD Fusion II with OverDrive and Black Edition memory profiles. Other neat features include the support for SATA 6Gbps, USB 3.0, Integrated Broadcom MAC, FIS based switching.

AMD Leo 2010 Platform - Enthusiasts' Dream Setup?

AMD plans to transit from the current Dragon AM3 platform to Leo platform in April 2010. The new platform is made up of a slew of faster 45nm multi-core AM3 CPUs to be released next year coupled with the new AMD 890FX/GX + SB850 chipsets as well as the DX11 graphics cards; Hemlock and Cypress (Radeon HD 5800 series). The new chipsets gonna sport several key features like improved Crossfire performance, ATI Stream and OpenCL support, next gen. Hybrid Crossfire, enhanced overclocking through AMD Fusion II with OverDrive and Black Edition memory profiles. Other neat features include the support for SATA 6Gbps, USB 3.0, Integrated Broadcom MAC, FIS based switching.



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