The AMD Trinity APUs launched earlier this year, bringing with them many improvements over last year’s Llano platform. While we came out suitably impressed from the A10 desktop variant of the new Trinity APU, let’s see if the mobile A6 APU can replicate the magic.

Our test unit came in the form of the Samsung Series 5 notebook in a relatively thin chassis; not an ultrabook per se, but at 2cm thick and weighing only 1.9kg it’s not far from it. Inside the laptop was an AMD A6-4455M dual-core Trinity processor running at 2.1GHz (boosting up to 2.6GHz). However, this APU runs two integer cores on one module, so technically speaking it’s not a proper dual-core processor.

Running on 32nm architecture the A6-4455M APU also integrates the Radeon HD 7500G graphics processor that contains a modest 256 shader units. On paper that raw processing power of the A6 APU doesn’t seem too impressive, but considering it’s rated TDP of just 17W it looks rather impressive.