AMD has announced the new Embedded Radeon E8860 GPU which is the first embedded discrete graphics card based on GCN architecture. According to AMD, the GPU, codenamed Adelaar, should offer more than double the performance of its predecessor while maintaining the same power envelope.

In addition to the much faster performance at the same power level, the Radeon E8860 will also provide 3D and 4K graphics capability and bring it to embedded gaming machines, digital signage, medial imaging, commercial aerospace, military equipment and kitchen appliances.

Based on a 768 GFLOPS GPU, the AMD Radeon E8860 GPU will be much more efficient in tasks like weather and terrain mapping, facial and gesture recognition and everything else you might throw at it. It brings support for DirectX 11.1, OpenGL 4.2, and OpenCL 1.2 with support for Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Embedded 7 Standard, Windows 8/8.1, Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Linux.

As far as the specs are concerned, the Radeon E8860 packs 640 stream processors, 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface and will be available in both mobile PCI-Express module (MXM) or PCI-Express add-in-board form-factors. As noted it provides up to 768 GLOPS of single precision compute performance, has a 37W TDP and offers DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4 outputs and supports both Wireless display and Stereo 3D technologies.

Embedded industry is not that well known but is quite important in the GPU world, so AMD did not want to miss an opportunity to take a stab at the competition saying that the E8860 delivers up to 80 percent higher memory bandwidth compared to any Nvidia sub-50W Geforce GPU and thanks to GPGPU, offers up to 61 percent higher performance-per-watt and up to 92 percent higher 3D graphics performance-per-watt when compared to the previous generation.






Source: AMD.com.