There is a lot of ivy bridge reviews today, since Intel have launched their new cpu, 22 nm and etc.
But I like comparing apple to apples, clock for clock.
So, according to this review ivy bridge is faster than sandy bridge 3.8% on average.
yeah, lower power comsumption and etc for ivy bridge, but will Apple care about 3.8% for macpro? or will they go sandy-bridge-e for next macpro (if it will ever be launched) without waiting for ivy-bridge-e
Regarding previous news, I actually missed one thing.
Lombok – mobile Cape Verde (77xx or 78xxM) support is already in AMDRadeonAccelerator and in ATI6000Controller kexts.
So, look like apple is gonna use Lombok (78xxM) in their next products!
Thames (mobile Pitcairn, 78xx == 79xxM) support is around the corner too
Radeon Lombok XT Prototype
Radeon Lombok PRO Prototype
Radeon Thames XT Prototype
Radeon Thames PRO Prototype
Radeon Thames LE Prototype
Edit, sorry guys, i was wrong, according to this, lombok seems to be just 7xxx rebrand of 66xx Turks card.
In ML DP3 instead of
ATIRadeonX3000.kext
ATIRadeonX3000GA.plugin
ATIRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle
ATIRadeonX3000VADriver.bundle
we now has
AMDRadeonAccelerator.kext
AMDRadeonVADriver.bundle
AMDRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle
which (according to its Info.plist) support radeon 5xxx family and 6xxx family.
But if you look inside of it. it supports more:
AMDR8xxGraphicsAccelerator
AMDBartsGraphicsAccelerator
AMDCaicosGraphicsAccelerator
AMDCaymanGraphicsAccelerator
AMDCedarGraphicsAccelerator
AMDCypressGraphicsAccelerator
AMDJuniperGraphicsAccelerator
AMDLombokGraphicsAccelerator
AMDRedwoodGraphicsAccelerator
AMDTurksGraphicsAccelerator
AMDSIGraphicsAccelerator
AMDPitcairnGraphicsAccelerator
AMDTahitiGraphicsAccelerator
AMDVerdeGraphicsAccelerator
We had signs of this new driver coming in previous versions of ATIRadeonX3000.kext, and now its here !
7xxx series will not work just yet, as it needs FrameBuffer driver first, and this is just accelerator (provides OpenGL&co acceleration)
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