Hi all,
So here's the situation:
- My mother has an old AMD A4-5300 that is quickly becoming a serious bottleneck, even for web browsing.
- I have an HTPC sporting the A8-7600 that's serving me very well in terms of performance (perfect 1080p Blu Ray playback, perfect music / video streams and decent retrogaming with emulators, even set at the 45W TDP).
Now, I might consider replacing my mom's A4 with the A8, which should be a significant improvement overall.
On the other hand I'd have to put a new motherboard / APU / ram combo in my HTPC.
The Athlon 200GE seems up to the task: Zen architecture vs Bulldozer, DDR4 ram vs DDR3, Vega graphics vs R5, 35W TDP vs 45W. The only "drawback" would be 2 cores / 4 threads vs 4 cores / 4 threads but we know that 2 Bulldozer cores are more or less one hyperthreaded core, so...
The question is: would it be an upgrade performance wise? Or would I simply see no improvement overall?
For reference, the rest of the system consist of a Kingston A400 SSD, an LG sata Blu Ray drive, 8Gb of ram (maybe Patriot Viper 4 3000 - still thinking about that) and a generic SFX 400W PSU, all hooked to a Samsung 39" 1080p non-smart TV.
Thanks to all
So here's the situation:
- My mother has an old AMD A4-5300 that is quickly becoming a serious bottleneck, even for web browsing.
- I have an HTPC sporting the A8-7600 that's serving me very well in terms of performance (perfect 1080p Blu Ray playback, perfect music / video streams and decent retrogaming with emulators, even set at the 45W TDP).
Now, I might consider replacing my mom's A4 with the A8, which should be a significant improvement overall.
On the other hand I'd have to put a new motherboard / APU / ram combo in my HTPC.
The Athlon 200GE seems up to the task: Zen architecture vs Bulldozer, DDR4 ram vs DDR3, Vega graphics vs R5, 35W TDP vs 45W. The only "drawback" would be 2 cores / 4 threads vs 4 cores / 4 threads but we know that 2 Bulldozer cores are more or less one hyperthreaded core, so...
The question is: would it be an upgrade performance wise? Or would I simply see no improvement overall?
For reference, the rest of the system consist of a Kingston A400 SSD, an LG sata Blu Ray drive, 8Gb of ram (maybe Patriot Viper 4 3000 - still thinking about that) and a generic SFX 400W PSU, all hooked to a Samsung 39" 1080p non-smart TV.
Thanks to all