The Future is Fusion – AMD Fusion for Gaming

When AMD’s new product Phenom II lost quite miserably against Intel’s i7, they introduce another slogan “The Future is Fusion”. From its title, we can tell that it has something to do with a special bond between AMD CPUs and ATi graphics… and possibly more products. But, how do you actually apply it?

AMD has just released a tool designed to help you discover its “fusion” experience, namely AMD Fusion for Gaming.

What does it do? In a nutshell, it improves system performances by shutting down unnecessary programs and (possibly) overclocks or tweaks CPU and Graphics. Using it is easy, all you need to do is click on the icon, and you can enjoy gaming.

There are three built-in profiles: Basic, Advanced, and Expert. In basic mode, it shuts down all foreground programs. In Advanced, it shuts down all foreground + superfluous background programs. In Expert, it does all of that + overclock your hardware automatically. When you disable it, it will relaunch those programs.

Apart from those, you can also create your own profiles where you choose to let AMD Fusion do what and not do what.

Does it really help? I know that a lot of programs have claimed that it helps performance, but doesn’t really do much. This here isn’t the case. A magazine has once reported that the 3DMark score jumped from 13000 to 17000 with AMD Fusion for Gaming.

From a personal experience, some resources-monster 3D Games, such as GTA 4 lagged a lot when I ran it without AMD Fusion. With it, the situation has changed significantly.

What does it need? It needs a Windows Machine (Windows 7 Compatible!) with an AMD CPU, and that’s all.

Have fun gaming with it! Get it here.