With the E35M1-I Deluxe ASUS presents its flagship motherboard regarding AMD Fusion architecture. It awaits multimedia users and people who need a noiseless and very energy efficient computer. It even offers decent performance and it's even able to destroy Intels Atom.
We'd like to thank ASUS for providing us with the testsample.

The E35M1-I Deluxe from ASUS is their first high-end motherboard regarding AMDs latest solution named Fusion. What's lying in front of us is USB3.0, Wifi, SATA3.0, Radeon HD 6310 onboard, AMD E-350 Zacate dual core CPU and much more.

It's been almost seven years now that AMD released a mobile CPU. This year AMD showed  a new architecture named Brazos (Bobcat CPU + Zacate GPU) ending up as a so called APU with codename Fusion, to provide an alternative to Intel Atom which used to dominate this market segment. Using PCMark Vantage we are able to show you performance for real-world applications such as video encoding, video playback, web browsing ... We are also going to compare power consumption too, to show the efficiency of Fusion against Atom.

AMD Fusion E-350 and Intel Atom specs

	AMD Fusion E-350	Intel Atom 330	Intel Atom D525
Codename	Bobcat	Diamondville	Pineview
Socket	FT1 BGA	FCBGA437	FCBGA559
Manufacturing	40 nm	45 nm	45 nm
Transistors	? Mio	94 Mio	176 Mio
Die-size	75 mm2	52 mm2	87 mm2
Clock	1.6 Ghz	1.6 Ghz	1.8 GHz
Cores / Threads	2C / 2T	2C / 4T	2C / 4T
Bus Speed	100 MHz	133 MHz	200 MHz
Memory	DDR3	DDR2	DDR2
Memory controller	Single Channel	Single Channel	Single Channel
L1 Execution Cache	32 KByte	24 KByte	24 KByte
L1 Data Cache	32 KByte	24 KByte	24 KByte
L2 Cache	512 KByte	512 KByte	512 KByte
TDP	18 Watt	8 Watt	13 Watt
Instruction sets	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE3S SSE4A, AMD-V, x86-64	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE3S, EM64T	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE3S, EM64T

	AMD Radeon HD 6310	Intel GMA 950	Intel GMA 3150
Chip	Zacate	i945GME	Pineview
Process	40 nm	90 nm	45 nm
DirectX	DX11	DX9	DX9
GPU clock	500 MHz	400 MHz	400 MHz
Memory	2'048 MB DDR3	256 MB DDR2	256 MB DDR2
Memory clock	1'333 MHz	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory interface	64 Bit	64 Bit	64 Bit
Shader Cores	80	4	4
ROPs	4 ROP	4 ROP	4 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 2	SM 2

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 7 - PCMark Vantage Memory & TV
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 8 - PCMark Vantage Gaming & Music
Page 3 - Presentaion / Layout / I/O / Bundle	Page 9 - Casual Gaming
Page 4 - BIOS	Page 10 - Power Consumption
Page 5 - Test Setup	Page 11 - Conclusion
Page 6 - PCMark Vantage Score

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