AMD Ontario performance numbers leaked
We've been hearing about AMD's "Fusion" plans for a long time now, but at last we're close to seeing the fruit of their labours. Indeed, so close are we to Fusion becoming a reality that the first benchmarks of AMD's Ontario part which marks the beginning of this marriage of CPU have now purportedly slipped out into the wild.
Raw performance figures for AMD's first Fusion based product, the upcoming Ontario processor, have been leaked and frankly things are looking pretty good.
The story originates from German site Hardware Infos which seems to have gotten its hands on a leaked specification table that shows the Ontario based accelerated processing unit (APU) to be capable of 1,352 GFLOPS of floating-point performance. To put this in context this is just over twice the performance of an Intel Atom D510 CPU, but falls 15 per cent short of a low power Athlon II X2 250u. The leaked performance figures also suggest the APU contains a curious 488kB of cache.
bit-tech has more details on the story.The story originates from German site Hardware Infos which seems to have gotten its hands on a leaked specification table that shows the Ontario based accelerated processing unit (APU) to be capable of 1,352 GFLOPS of floating-point performance. To put this in context this is just over twice the performance of an Intel Atom D510 CPU, but falls 15 per cent short of a low power Athlon II X2 250u. The leaked performance figures also suggest the APU contains a curious 488kB of cache.
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Elite Bastards competition reminder: Win a Lord of the Rings Online beta key!
If you haven't entered yet, don't forget that you have until 9AM (UK time) next Tuesday, August 3rd to win a beta key for the forthcoming free-to-play version of Lord of the Rings Online, together with 5,000 points to spend in game. We have 100 sets of keys and points to give away, so whatever you do make sure you enter!
In case you missed them, here are the details of what you need to do to enter:
This coming autumn marks an important milestone for The Lord of the Rings Online™ (LOTRO) as it moves to a Free-to-Play model. That’s right! LOTRO will be Free to play for everyone!
Players of all levels will explore incredibly detailed realms and join familiar characters in an evolving and persistent re-creation of Tolkien’s beloved world. They will face the dangers Frodo and the Fellowship left behind when they began their epic journey to destroy the One Ring.
Gamers can adventure solo or forge their own fellowships online with others, as they face hideous monsters and minions of Sauron, establish unique reputations, fight epic battles to defend Middle-earth, and immerse themselves in the greatest adventure of our time.
For a limited time, Codemasters Online are offering 100 lucky winners the chance to have access to the LOTRO Free-to-Play Beta complete with 5000 points at the online store so that players can experience first-hand the ultimate adventure and experience unlimited entertainment – free forever!
To get started, just answer this simple question:
What is the correct name of the land Gandalf and Frodo are fighting to defend?
A. Central-earth
B. Middle-earth
C.Higher-earth
If you know the answer (and really, I hope you do!) just send an e-mail to competition@elitebastards.com with a subject line containing your chosen answer to the question above, and leave us your name and a preferred contact e-mail address within the body of the e-mail's text. The competition closes at 9AM UK time on Tuesday, August 3rd 2010, and we'll be announcing and contacting the winners with their beta keys and online store vouchers via e-mail shortly after.
For more information on the game, please visit the LOTRO Europe web site. Good luck!
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Need For Speed World review
While the idea of buying a game off a retail store shelve and simply playing it isn't dead just yet, more and more developers are looking towards the idea of releasing free games with pay-for content, upgrades and the like as a new and exciting way to make money. Electronics Arts certainly haven't been shy to dip their toes into this field, be it via football game FIFA Online or the subject of this review, Need For Speed World. But just how satisfying a gaming experience is it?
There’s a lot of complaining below. Because the game does an awful lot wrong. But I want to stress one thing before we get started: the driving is great fun. The cars handle in a really friendly way, letting you take corners at ridiculous speeds, gripping tightly to the roads in a way that may not be realistic, but certainly allows room for entertaining hurtling. If anything, the frustration of the failure of NFSW is that it’s clearly a really solid racing game, woefully short of much to do.
You buy a car, take that car to the streets, where there is little to do other than enter one of three races. Win those, and you’ll likely level up, choosing bonuses – Driver Skills – for your driving each time. Then a few more races open up. Win those, and, well, it doesn’t repeat. This time only a couple of races open up. Get to level 4 and one new one appears. By the time you’re at level 7, barely anything new to do turns up, but the XP required to continue involves winning multiple races. So you’re forced to compete in the same few races over and over again.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has their thoughts on Need For Speed World in full.You buy a car, take that car to the streets, where there is little to do other than enter one of three races. Win those, and you’ll likely level up, choosing bonuses – Driver Skills – for your driving each time. Then a few more races open up. Win those, and, well, it doesn’t repeat. This time only a couple of races open up. Get to level 4 and one new one appears. By the time you’re at level 7, barely anything new to do turns up, but the XP required to continue involves winning multiple races. So you’re forced to compete in the same few races over and over again.
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