Dell Germany has recently updated the product pages for the notebook 13-inch Vostro 3350, and, judging by a list of its specs,this seems to be the first laptop to get a AMD Radeon HD 7000 series graphics cards based on the architecture of the Southern Islands.
Graphics card in question is the AMD Radeon HD 7450M, whichDell said it features 160 shader cores paired with GDDR5 memoryfor a total bandwidth of 13GB/sec.
Although it is possible that the name of the GPU may have beenmisspelled, specifications posted does not seem to resemble any current AMD HD 6000 mobile graphics cores.
Regardless of the Radeon HD 7000 graphics card, 13.3-inch DellVostro 3350 notebook is nothing extraordinary as the user can configure with one of three Intel processors Sandy Bridge(I3-2310M,-2410M i5, and i7-2620M), which can be pairedtogether with up to 6GB of system memory.
Depending on the selected CPU and other hardware options, the Dell Vostro 3350 can be purchased for as low as € 489 while theRadeon HD 7450M comes as an upgrade to € 60.
This apparition Radeon HD 7450M seems to confirm rumors thatwe reported on earlier today, stating that AMD is ready to launch the Radeon HD 7000 series GPU, code named South Islands, in the third quarter of this year.
From what we know until now, the Radeon HD 7000 GPU series based on the same VLIW4 arrangement introduced by the Cayman architecture (AMD HD 6900-series), but it is built with a28nm manufacturing process.
Use of this node fabrication allows AMD to lower power requirements of chips South Islands, while also improving the performance of their graphics.
Earlier this month, AMD officially confirmed that the company will release a new series graphics core by the end of this year, butrefused to disclose other details.
