HP 15-G049AU

The laptop I use goes by the name HP 15-G049AU. It was launched by HP in the year 2014 during the
period Q3. The laptop is powered by an AMD APU series processors.
Background of HP

The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) was an American multinational

information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a
wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, smalland medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government,
health and education sectors.
On October 6, 2014, Hewlett-Packard announced plans to split the PC and printers business from its
enterprise products and services business. The split closed on November 1, 2015, and resulted in two
publicly traded companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The specifications of my laptop are as follows:

15.6 HD TFT LCD screen anti-glare screen. It has a maximum display resolution of 1366 x 768
pixels.
The processor in AMD A8 6410 APU is a quad core 64 bit processor having a 28nm
semiconductor technology with a base clock frequency of 2.0GHz and turbo clock frequency
of 2.4 GHz. It has 2 level of Cache with 256 KB L1 cache and 2 MB L2 cache.
The quad core CPU has 2 physical cores and 2 virtual cores.
The APU has an integrated AMD Radeon R5 GPU with 128 shader processers and 800 MHZ
base frequency and 512 MB of graphic ram.
500GB SATA hard disk drive with spindle speed of 5400 RPM.
4GB DDR3 1333 MHz ram.
It has a full layout chiclet keyboard.

About the Processor AMD A8 APU

The AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known as Fusion, is the marketing term for a
series of 64-bit microprocessors from AMD designed to act as a CPU and graphics accelerator (GPU)
on a single chip.

The AMD Fusion project started in 2006 with the aim of developing a system on a chip that combined
a CPU with a GPU on a single die. AMD took a key step toward realising such a vision when it acquired
the graphics chipset manufacturer ATI in 2006. The project reportedly required three internal
iterations of the Fusion concept to create a product deemed worthy of release. Reasons contributing
to the delay of the project include the technical difficulties of combining a CPU and GPU on the same
die at a 45 nm process, and conflicting views on what the role of the CPU and GPU should be within
the project.
AMD APUs have a unique architecture: they have AMD CPU modules, cache, and a discrete-class
graphics processor all on the same die, using the same bus. This architecture allows for the use of
graphics accelerators, such as OpenCL, with the integrated graphics processor. The goal is to create a
"fully integrated" APU, which, according to AMD will eventually feature 'heterogeneous cores' capable
of processing both CPU and GPU work automatically, depending on the workload requirement.
AMD A8-6410 APU

The AMD A8-6410 is a mobile quad-core SoC (codenamed "Beema") for entry-level devices and
subnotebooks, which has been presented in spring 2014. In addition to 4 CPU cores clocked at 2.0 2.4 GHz (boost clock), the 28 nanometer chip also integrates a Radeon R5 GPU, a single-channel
DDR3L-1866 memory controller and the Southbridge with various I/O-ports. Besides the slightly higher
base clock (2.0 instead of 1.8 GHz), the technical data and therefore the performance is almost
identical to the A6-6310 APU.
Architecture

Both Beema (for notebooks) and Mullins (for tablets and compact subnotebooks, same die) are based
on AMD's Puma+ architecture, which is the successor to the previous Jaguar design (Kabini and
Temash APUs). Neither the performance per clock nor the feature set (including SSE up to 4.2, AVX
and AES) have been modified. However, AMD managed to reduce the leakage current, enabling
significantly higher (boost) clock speeds. This leads to a more responsive system and better overall
performance. As its predecessor, the chip is manufactured in 28 nm.
Performance

In single thread tasks, the A8-6410 is clearly faster than the former A6-5200 (25 W, 2.0 GHz), but just
slightly ahead in multi thread benchmarks. Overall, the APU offers a performance similar to a Haswellbased Pentium or Core i3 (ULV). Nonetheless, the A8-6410 will be sufficient for all daily workloads like
Office, Internet browsing and multimedia.
Graphics

The SoC integrates a Radeon R5 GPU with 128 shaders, which is based on the GCN architecture and
clocked at up to 800 MHz. On average, the graphics performance is similar to Intel's HD Graphics 4200
or a dedicated Radeon HD 7470M.
Power Consumption:

The power consumption of the entire SoC is rated at 15 watts. Thus, the APU is suitable for smaller
subnotebooks.
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