AMD Tigris and Congo platforms promise better battery life

Andrew Nusca | Sep 16, 2009

AMD on Thursday announced its Tigris laptop platform, intended for mainstream applications and offering full 1080p, DirectX 10.1 support and offloading video encoding to the Radeon HD 4200 GPU.

With new 45nm dual-core Caspian processors (speeds up to 2.6GHz), AMD manages a 42 percent improvement in multimedia performance, claims the company. The platform offers 25 percent longer battery life, which amounts to 1 hour and 55 minutes of active use and just under 5 hours in idle, according to AMD.

The company also announced its Congo ultrathin notebook platform, offering the HD video and DirectX 10.1 support, as well as 2 hours and 26 minutes of active use, thanks to HD 3200 and dual-core Neo chips.

The Intel versus AMD takeaway? Intel’s CULV offerings offer more endurance but less power.

Most notable OEMs have signed up, so expect to see them in your next Windows 7 computer.

Via ZDNet

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