AMD A8-Series A8-3530MX - AM3530HLX43GX

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AMD A8-3530MX microprocessor, aimed at mid-class / high-performance mainstream notebooks with rich graphics capabilities, is the fastest from the first three members of "A8-Series for Notebooks" family. The A8-Series family, as well as less powerful A4- and A6-Series, are part of "Sabine" mobile platform, that was launched in June 2011. All A4, A6 and A8 processors are based on newly announced 32nm Llano core, and are marketed by AMD as Accelerated Processor Units or APUs.

The AMD A8-3530MX is built on tweaked "Stars" (K10) micro-architecture, and it has four CPU cores with 128 KB level 1 and 1 MB level 2 caches, dedicated to each core. The APU runs at 1.8 GHz, and supports the same technologies as previous generation of K10 microprocessors: AMD 64, Virtualization, and instruction set extensions up to SSE3 and SSE4A. New feature, implemented on the 3530MX, is a Turbo Core technology. If the APU operates within thermal limits, and have some CPU cores idle, this feature may boost operating frequency of active core(s) up to 2.5 GHz.

Another new feature in the AMD A8-3530MX is a high-performance Radeon HD 6620G Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), integrated together with the CPU cores. The GPU runs at 444 MHz, has 400 shader units, and provides 3D graphics performance, close to performance of discreet video cards. In non-graphical applications, the shader units can be used for highly parallel calculations. In this case, the combined power of 400 shaders may be up to 30 times higher than the performance of four processor cores.

In addition to CPU cores and the GPU, the AMD 3530MX contains the following components:

Universal Video Decoder 3.0 is used to accelerate decoding of standard-resolution and HD video streams.
DDR3 memory controller is used to interface with system RAM. The controller has two channels, and it supports standard-voltage memory with data rates up to 1600 MHz, and low-voltage memory with data rates up to 1333 MHz.

Compared to previous generation of "Danube" mobile processors, low-power features on the AMD A8-3530MX were greatly improved. Like older models, this APU has several low-power states. In addition to this, it incorporates a handful of low-level enhancements, such as power gating. This technique is used to turn off power to one or more CPU cores, graphics unit, and other chip components, thus considerably reducing power consumption when those components are idle. Thermal Design Power of the A8-3530MX is 45 Watt. This processor is produced in a PGA package, compatible with Socket FS1 motherboards.

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AMD A8-3530MX specifications

General information
Type	CPU / Microprocessor
Market segment	Mobile
Family	AMD A8-Series for Notebooks
Model number ?	A8-3530MX
CPU part number	AM3530HLX43GX is an OEM/tray microprocessor
Frequency ?	1900 MHz
Turbo frequency	2600 MHz
Package	722-pin micro-PGA
Socket	Socket FS1
Introduction date	June 14, 2011

Architecture / Microarchitecture
Microarchitecture	K10
Platform	Sabine
Processor core ?	Llano
Core stepping ?	LN1-B0
CPUID	300F10
Manufacturing process	0.032 micron
Data width	64 bit
The number of cores	4
The number of threads	4
Floating Point Unit	Integrated
Level 1 cache size ?	4 x 64 KB 2-way set associative instruction caches 4 x 64 KB 2-way set associative data caches
Level 2 cache size ?	4 x 1 MB 16-way set associative caches
Multiprocessing	Uniprocessor
Features	MMX instructions 3DNow! technology SSE / Streaming SIMD Extensions SSE2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE3 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSE4a ? AMD64 / AMD 64-bit technology ? EVP / Enhanced Virus Protection ? VT / Virtualization technology ? Turbo Core technology

Integrated peripherals / components
Integrated graphics	GPU Type: Radeon HD 6620G Shader cores: 400 Base frequency (MHz): 444
Memory controller	The number of controllers: 1 Memory channels: 2 Supported memory: DDR3-1600, LV DDR3-1333
Other peripherals	PCI Express 2.0 interface

Electrical / Thermal parameters
V core ?	0.9125V - 1.4125V
Maximum operating temperature ?	100°C
Thermal Design Power ?	45 Watt

CPUs, related to AMD A8-3530MX

Model Cores /
Threads Freq. Turbo
freq. L2
cache TDP Features

AMD A8-Series for Notebooks family, Socket FS1

   A8-3500M 4 / 4 1.5 GHz 2.4 GHz 4 MB 35 Watt

   A8-3520M 4 / 4 1.6 GHz 2.5 GHz 4 MB 35 Watt

   A8-3510MX 4 / 4 1.8 GHz 2.5 GHz 4 MB 45 Watt

   A8-3530MX 4 / 4 1.9 GHz 2.6 GHz 4 MB 45 Watt

   A8-3550MX 4 / 4 2 GHz 2.7 GHz 4 MB 45 Watt

Other families, K10 micro-architecture, Socket FS1

   E2-3000M 2 / 2 1.8 GHz 2.4 GHz 1 MB 35 Watt

   A4-3305M 2 / 2 1.9 GHz 2.5 GHz 1 MB 35 Watt

   A4-3300M 2 / 2 1.9 GHz 2.5 GHz 2 MB 35 Watt

   A4-3310MX 2 / 2 2.1 GHz 2.5 GHz 2 MB 45 Watt

   A4-3320M 2 / 2 2 GHz 2.6 GHz 2 MB 35 Watt

   A4-3330MX 2 / 2 2.2 GHz 2.6 GHz 2 MB 45 Watt

   A6-3400M 4 / 4 1.4 GHz 2.3 GHz 4 MB 35 Watt

   A6-3410MX 4 / 4 1.6 GHz 2.3 GHz 4 MB 45 Watt

   A6-3420M 4 / 4 1.5 GHz 2.4 GHz 4 MB 35 Watt

   A6-3430MX 4 / 4 1.7 GHz 2.4 GHz 4 MB 45 Watt

• Within each category, the CPUs are sorted from slower (at the top) to faster (at the bottom)

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News

AMD launches A-Series APUs for Notebooks

Jun 15, 2011: AMD yesterday announced new 2011 AMD Notebook Platform, that includes seven dual-core and quad-core A-Series microprocessors, codenamed "Llano". The new processors are marketed by AMD as Accelerated Processing Units (APU), and, in addition of retaining the full functionality of CPUs from previous generation of mobile AMD "Danube" platform, add extensive video and graphics processing capabilities.

Details of mobile Llano A-Series CPUs surface on AMD website

Jun 12, 2011: In May, we published specifications of forthcoming mobile A-Series microprocessors with integrated graphics, marketed by AMD as Accelerated Processing Units (APU). At the launch, there will be 7 dual- and quad-core SKUs, clocked from 1.5 GHz to 2.1 GHz, and reaching as high as 2.6 GHz in Turbo Core mode. Two days ago "2011 AMD Notebook Platform" page, was updated with information of these models.

Details of AMD Llano mobile CPU lineup

May 25, 2011: Earlier this week DonanimHaber published details of forthcoming AMD mobile "Llano" microprocessors from "Sabine" platform. Based on their information, the mobile line-up will be comprised of four families, targeting different sectors of the mobile market: high-performance A8-Series, mid- to high-performance A6-Series, budget and mid-class A4-Series, and entry-level E2-Series.

Details emerge on AMD A8-3530MX Llano CPU

May 17, 2011: As you may already know, later this year AMD is going to introduce LLano microprocessor core, that will be used in both desktop and mobile markets. The Llano core is a 32nm shrink of current K10 (Stars) core, and, in addition to features, we've become accustomed on Athlon II and Phenom II lines of CPUs, it will also integrate Radeon 6000 series graphics. Yesterday, DonanimHaber disclosed details of mobile processor A8-3530MX, based on Llano core.

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Manufacturer:	AMD
CPU Family:	A8-Series for Notebooks
Model Number:	A8-3530MX
Frequency:	1896 MHz

Part number:	AM3530HLX43GX
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General information
Vendor:	AuthenticAMD
Processor name (BIOS):	AMD A8-3530MX APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Cores:	4
Logical processors:	4
Processor type:	Original OEM Processor
Core stepping:	LN-B0
CPUID signature:	300F10
Family:	18 (012h)
Model:	1 (01h)
Stepping:	0 (00h)

Cache: L1 data L1 instruction L2

Size: 4 x 64 KB 4 x 64 KB 4 x 1 MB

Associativity: 2-way set
associative 2-way set
associative 16-way set
associative

Line size: 64 bytes 64 bytes 64 bytes

Lines per tag: 1 1 1

Instruction set extensions Additional instructions

MMX Advanced Bit manipulation

AMD extensions to MMX CLFLUSH

3DNow! CMOV

Extensions to 3DNow! CMPXCHG16B

SSE CMPXCHG8B

SSE2 FXSAVE/FXRSTORE

SSE3 MONITOR/MWAIT

SSE4A POPCNT

PREFETCH/PREFETCHW

RDTSCP

SKINIT / STGI support

SYSCALL/SYSRET

SYSENTER/SYSEXIT

Major features Other features

On-chip Floating Point Unit 1 GB large page support

64-bit / Intel 64 100MHz multiplier control

NX bit/XD-bit 128-bit SSE instructions

Secure Virtual Machine (Virtualization) 36-bit page-size extensions

Turbo Core Advanced programmable interrupt controller

PowerNow! / Cool'n'Quiet Core multi-processing legacy mode

Debugging extensions

Extended APIC space

Hardware P-state control

Hardware thermal control

Instruction based sampling

LAHF / SAHF support in 64-bit mode

LBR virtualization

LOCK MOV CR0 means MOV CR8

Machine check architecture

Machine check exception

Memory-type range registers

Misaligned SSE mode

Model-specific registers

Nested page tables

OS visible workaround

Page attribute table

Page global extension

Page-size extensions (4MB pages)

Physical address extensions

SVM lock

Software thermal control

Support for NRIP save

THERMTRIP

TSC rate is ensured to be invariant across all states

Temperature sensor

Time stamp counter

Virtual 8086-mode enhancements

Watchdog timer support

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