AMD A8-Series A8-3510MX - AM3510HLX43GX

AMD A8-3510MX is one of the first three members of "A8-Series for Notebooks" family of mobile CPUs. The processor, marketed by AMD as Accelerated Processor Unit or APU, was a part Sabine mobile platform launch in June 2011. The launch event also included 6 other chips from A4-, A6- and A8-Series for Notebooks families. Like other A8 microprocessors, this model is targeted at mid-class and high-performance mainstream laptops.

The AMD A8-3510MX is built on Llano core, which uses improved K10 micro-architecture, adapted for 32nm manufacturing process. The processor has four CPU cores, clocked at 1.8 GHz. Each core incorporates dedicated 128 KB L1 and 1 MB L2 caches. The 3510MX supports the same K10 instruction set extensions and technologies, as Athlon II and Phenom II mobile parts: AMD64 and Virtualization, and SIMD extensions up to SSE3 and SSE4A. New feature on this APU is a Turbo Core technology, that can boost operating frequency up to 2.5 GHz when some cores are not active.

Another new feature in the AMD A8-3510MX is a Radeon HD 6620G Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), integrated on the same a die as CPU cores. The graphics unit on this chip operates at 444 MHz, and it comes with 400 shader units. The GPU is powerful enough to match performance of discreet video cards in 3D graphics applications. The shader units can be also used for highly parallel calculations by non-graphics programs. In this case, the combined power of all shaders may result in an order of magnitude better performance compared to the performance of CPU cores.

In addition to processor cores and the graphics unit, the A8-Series 3510MX contains the following components:

• Universal Video Decoder 3.0 is used to accelerate decoding of standard-resolution and HD video streams.
• Memory controller is used to interface with system RAM. The controller operates in dual-channel mode, and it works with standard-voltage DDR3 memory with data rates up to 1600 MHz, and low-voltage DDR3 memory with data rates up to 1333 MHz.

The AMD A8-3510MX incorporates several low-power states, as well as a number of low-level enhancements, that considerably lower APU's power consumption. For example, power gating technique allows this model to reduce power by switching off graphics processing unit, UVD, and/or one or more CPU cores, when those are not used. Thermal Design Power of the A8-3510MX is 45 Watt, which includes power, dissipated by the cores, GPU, memory controller, and other chip components. This APU is manufactured in a PGA package, compatible with Socket FS1.