a shared memory architecture. In this situation, graphics data must shuttle relatively independently between RAM, the integrated memory interface in the CPU, through the hyper-transport channel to the PCIe connector, and from there to the graphics processor...

earns its middle-of-the-road but acceptable performance and capability scores (which we produce in the next section of this story). Table 1: tx2000z Devices and Components TypeDescriptionNotes CPUAMD Turion 64 X2 TL-662.3 GHz, 800 MHz HyperTransport Graphics...

a quartet of 512 KB L2 caches and a unified 2 MB L3 repository. It’s able to take full advantage of the 780G chipset’s HyperTransport 3.0 link, too. You can currently find the retail boxed 9550 priced at around $175 online. However, we’ve noticed that...