AMD A10-7850k for VMWare?

[Noitidart]

I want to get AMD A10-7850k. But I want to notice to lag whatsover. I plan to have SSD with Win7 on it, and on that I plan to VMWare with mac os, win xp, and diffrent linux version. I plan to test my firefox addons on VMWare. Will the a10 handle this totally lag free? totally smooth?

 

[Nikolay Savov]

A10-7850k was looking good when i first read about it ....... but then the comparison bench`s start to pop up ......

I would take Intel for VMware - call it personal experience & preference

The only 2 pros i found for A10 is :
- better integrated GPU performance than Intel - goes for gaming .....
- better Programming - that is still to come .......
Cons :
- performance is lower than i5 rival
- it have 2 Memory Channels - Maximum bandwidth 12,800 MB/s vs Intel 25,600 MB/s

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a10-7850k-a8-7600-kaveri,3725-14.html
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-4670K-vs-AMD-A10-7850K

Advice for Vitrualisation PC
- take SSD for OS and / or for VM datastore
- go for 16GB RAM or more

 

[killakallies]

You would honestly get much better VMWare performance with an FX8320 or any of the other 8 core AMD CPU's. I haven't tested that particular APU with VMWare but I do occasionally boot up VM's on my laptop to do some basic things with an older A6 and it works just fine. For testing apps and what not I would go with the 8 core FX series CPU's, I have listed a link to a particularly popular and effective model below.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113285

 

[Noitidart]

Much much thanks all. I was really wanting to go for AMD though. I thought APUs were the future no?

 

[Gaidax]

Much much thanks all. I was really wanting to go for AMD though. I thought APUs were the future no?

Future is not here yet and that APU is crap.

Just to elaborate a bit, despite all the touting about HSA and what not, right now and in the next 2 years at least there is really nothing in the market that supports it. Besides that, there is an inherent issue of current APUs being very underwhelming on the CPU side of things - you get 4 extremely weak budget cores without L3 cache.

APU is not suited for any serious working environment or VMware really, you can of course use those there, but only so much.