The raw numbers that AMD is claiming are incredible for a single-generation change in processing. Eight and a half hours<\/em> of video playback for a Carrizo laptop versus three and a half for a previous-gen one. Almost twice the performance in the same programs, while simultaneously<\/em> reducing power consumption by half \u2014 a performance per Watt improvement of 2.4x versus AMD\u2019s last-gen APUs. All of this while still on the same 28-nanometre production process as the last generation of chips, too.<\/p>\n The improvements under the hood of Carrizo extend much further than baseline computing and graphics performance improvements. The latest low-power sleep modes are supported. A hardware h.264\/h.265 HEVC video decoder is built in, much<\/em> more efficiently playing video than by just using the CPU. Power improvements to the onboard memory cache,\u00a0Toshiba\u00a0PA3593U-1BAS laptop battery<\/a>\u00a0power improvements for the graphics voltage controller, power improvements to video game streaming and Skype calls in the next version of Windows.<\/p>\n Windows 10 itself comes with myriad improvements in the way notebooks and desktop PCs can operate \u2014 for both productivity and less-productive tasks like gaming. DirectX 12 is a huge part of that, and Carrizo is AMD\u2019s first APU to support DirectX 12 instructions; as a result you\u2019ll see a performance boost of about seven times<\/em> versus the last-gen part under the same test. It\u2019s also the first notebook to support HSA 1.0, the worldwide developer spec that aims to make it a lot<\/em> easier to program software to run simultaneously across both CPU and GPU.<\/p>\n What\u2019s best about Carrizo, in a way, is that it\u2019s not<\/em> a world-beating piece of hardware. It\u2019s not the most powerful CPU out there<\/em> or the most powerful GPU out there<\/em>, because that\u2019s a race that has already been run and that runs over and over and over. Carrizo makes huge, measurable, noticeable, important<\/em>improvements in the middle of the market, in laptops that real people actually buy. We genuinely can\u2019t wait until they start appearing in notebooks on store shelves and superseding the last generation \u2014 with\u00a0HP 468816-001 battery<\/a><\/b> and performance figures that just look embarrassing in hindsight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AMD’s latest high-performance notebook APU: Carrizo: Huge Performance Boosts For Laptop’s Battery Life And Computing Power. AMD calls Carrizo its \u201cmost versatile notebook processor ever\u201d, \u00a0the under-the-hood improvements are genuinely amazing. Say hello to double the battery life of last year\u2019s laptops, as well as almost double the computing power. The raw numbers that AMD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[555,554,553],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-knowledge-base","category-laptop-batteries-tips","category-tech-info","tag-dell-312-0461-battery","tag-hp-468816-001-battery","tag-toshiba-pa3593u-1bas-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"toshiba-pa3534u-1bas-laptop-battery\"](\"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/toshiba-pa3534u-1bas-laptop-battery-300x169.jpg\")
\n<\/a>Carrizo is aimed at everyday laptops\u00a0\u2014 the $399, $799, $999 laptops you\u2019ll see on the shelves of stores. The Dell Inspiron 1545<\/a> and Lenovo Thinkpad T430\u00a0of the world, not massive hulking powerhouses from Alienware and AORUS. It\u2019s not a super-performance part like Intel\u2019s newest Broadwell Core i7s, and it won\u2019t beat them in outright CPU-compute performance. Nor is it a super-low-power tablet-esque like the energy-sipping Core M. Instead, Carrizo sits comfortably in between, consuming a little more power than Core M but besting Core i7 notebooks\u00a0when it comes to the fun<\/em> stuff, like gaming and video playback.<\/p>\n