AMD Richland APU Will Boost up to 4.4GHz

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]The_Trutherizer[/nom]That said... If it beats my 2500k by a wide margin then I might just throw some dolla AMDs way.[/citation]

At least in CPU performance, I don't think that I'd be that ambitious for Kaveri. The i5-2500K, even at stock, is difficult to beat in CPU performance, especially considering the different markets that it and the APUs are designed for.

 

[The_Trutherizer]

[citation][nom]The_Trutherizer[/nom]That said... If it beats my 2500k by a wide margin then I might just throw some dolla AMDs way.[/citation]

Yeah... Just saying I'd like AMD to get their act together and launch HD8000 APU cores with Radeon HD8000 and that they should be able to dual.

It would be nice. Symmetrical you know... Like: What do I buy? That's easy. APU with HD8000 and a Radeon HD8000. Time to kick some ass.

You know... Is that too much to ask?

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]The_Trutherizer[/nom]Yeah... Just saying I'd like AMD to get their act together and launch HD8000 APU cores with Radeon HD8000 and that they should be able to dual. It would be nice. Symmetrical you know... Like: What do I buy? That's easy. APU with HD8000 and a Radeon HD8000. Time to kick some ass. You know... Is that too much to ask?[/citation]

Oh, I agree. It does seem like it would make things easier on the consumers. Unfortunately, the graphics have to be ready before the APUs are designed. It's difficult use a graphics architecture that isn't even finished before they design the APU's IGP.

 

[The_Trutherizer]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]At least in CPU performance, I don't think that I'd be that ambitious for Kaveri. The i5-2500K, even at stock, is difficult to beat in CPU performance, especially considering the different markets that it and the APUs are designed for.[/citation]

And yes true, but the with APUs you have to look at the whole picture. The benchmarks I have seen of dual setups seem to indicate a good boost at a reasonable price. But you don't want to be stuck with only the option to dual with a grapics card that is a generation or two old. Especially if they only support the option for lower-end cards. Everybody want's the tech in their rig to be as up to date as possible. To me buying a previous generation card, because it is all that can dual with my APU feels un-sexy...

Nay! I want my current gen graphics card and my current gen APU to do surprising things when working together. THAT's sexy...

But like you said the Radeon 7000s will probably still be around for a few months.

 

[The_Trutherizer]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Oh, I agree. It does seem like it would make things easier on the consumers. Unfortunately, the graphics have to be ready before the APUs are designed. It's difficult use a graphics architecture that isn't even finished before they design the APU's IGP.[/citation]

But by that logic they'd have to wait for the graphic's architecture to be finished before they can use it in graphics cards. Why can't they just create the architecture and then push it through both their next APU and Radeon line-up? A 7000 radeon can crossfire with another 7000 radeon. It should really not be more complicated than that.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]The_Trutherizer[/nom]But by that logic they'd have to wait for the graphic's architecture to be finished before they can use it in graphics cards. Why can't they just create the architecture and then push it through both their next APU and Radeon line-up? A 7000 radeon can crossfire with another 7000 radeon. It should really not be more complicated than that.[/citation]

The difference is that the architecture getting finished isn't all that needs to be done for the APUs. For example, Kaveri will be the first APU (if it's 28nm as is reported) that will have the same processing node as the GPU that it's IGP is based on (no need for die-shrinking the IGP's design) and even then, Kaveri is forced to wait until Steamroller is done and may also has to wait because of production volume costs (it might not be easy on production if their APUs and GPUs need to use the same fabs).

Although inconvenient, there's a lot of reason behind it, granted these are complications that AMD probably wouldn't have to deal with if they were Intel's size and could afford to have all of the R&D going on at once instead of one after the other (assuming that this is an inhibitor; I think that it is, but Its not like AMD is admitting to anything of the sort).

 

[bak0n]

If it works with a HD 7750 I wonder if you can Tri Xfire them to any benefit. I'm running X fire 7750 right now.

 

[salh]

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