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darkknightkryta on 16 June 2012
Kyuu said:
I'm not getting what this APU thing exactly is.. is it like the name of the entire chipset "CPU and GPU"? or is it separate? if it's the latter then how come they didn't give its specifications?

Originally speaking an APU is an "Arithmetic Processing Unit", it's the calculator of all CPUs.  AMD is using the term "APU" as the hybrid processor so to speak; a cpu with a gpu all on the same die.



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zarx on 17 June 2012
darkknightkryta said:
Kyuu said:
I'm not getting what this APU thing exactly is.. is it like the name of the entire chipset "CPU and GPU"? or is it separate? if it's the latter then how come they didn't give its specifications?

Originally speaking an APU is an "Arithmetic Processing Unit", it's the calculator of all CPUs.  AMD is using the term "APU" as the hybrid processor so to speak; a cpu with a gpu all on the same die.

APU has also been used for Accellerated Processing Unit and Audio Processing Uint, it's hard to find a simple abreviation that hasn't been used for lots of different things these days.



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darkknightkryta on 17 June 2012
zarx said:
darkknightkryta said:

Originally speaking an APU is an "Arithmetic Processing Unit", it's the calculator of all CPUs.  AMD is using the term "APU" as the hybrid processor so to speak; a cpu with a gpu all on the same die.

APU has also been used for Accellerated Processing Unit and Audio Processing Uint, it's hard to find a simple abreviation that hasn't been used for lots of different things these days.

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