Introduction to Kabini

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" The Kabini, AMD's answer to Intel's Bay Trail "


Accelerated Processing Unit or APU, one of the strongest weapon AMD has these days,
Kabini is essentially AMD's answer to Intel's Bay Trail , which is found in some low-power Intel's processor. 

What is KABINI ?

Kabini is the company’s ‘System in a Socket’ APU. As shown in the diagram below all of the typical computing workloads and tasks, including PCIe and storage channels, are handled via the APU.




The system-on-chip (SoC) design allows motherboard vendors to keep board prices to a minimum. Kabini AMD has moved onwards into a smaller 28nm SHP fabbed at Global Foundries. For the CPU part this APU uses jaguar cores, the APUs all have four of these and compared to the last generation that alone will bring in a bit of a performance boost on the processor side of things alone already. 

Kabini uses a GCN based Radeon GPU with 128 shader cores. The distinct difference over last generation products is that Kabini  now uses the Radeon series 7000 (GCN) architecture similar to the Radeon 7000 series Radeon products.

Source : Anandtech.com & AMD.com

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