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| Thread ID: 127112 | 2012-10-04 08:14:00 | AMD's "Trinty" A series CPUs released | icow (15313) | PC World Chat |
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| 1305109 | 2012-10-04 08:14:00 | images.anandtech.com Compared to the fx-8150. That shows multiple things: 1) The fx-8150 was a flop, regardless of how having 8 cores should mean more power it just leads on to my second point... 2) You don't need more than 4 cores for pretty much anything including video transcoding: www.anandtech.com 3) If you brought a 8150 as an upgrade you should probably go jump off a cliff or something Nice to see a solid apu from AMD with unlocked multipliers, hopefully this means the next lot of i3's will have their multipliers unlocked too. Hopefully it also causes a price drop in low end cpu's being priced at $199nz on launch. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1305110 | 2012-10-04 10:55:00 | I can't wait to see more multi threaded apps hit the mainstream. Their uptake has been pretty damn slow, and it saddens me. Then we'll see who needs 8 damn cores :) | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1305111 | 2012-10-04 19:37:00 | images.anandtech.com Compared to the fx-8150. That shows multiple things: 1) The fx-8150 was a flop, regardless of how having 8 cores should mean more power it just leads on to my second point... 2) You don't need more than 4 cores for pretty much anything including video transcoding: www.anandtech.com 3) If you brought a 8150 as an upgrade you should probably go jump off a cliff or something Nice to see a solid apu from AMD with unlocked multipliers, hopefully this means the next lot of i3's will have their multipliers unlocked too. Hopefully it also causes a price drop in low end cpu's being priced at $199nz on launch. I think they have the right idea, however they havent jumped onboard it enough..... AMD is such a long way from competiting with Intel, that power users will just get Intel CPU, so AMD has high end dGPU for that, so stop pi**ing around with a silly 76xx series GPU on this APU...This type of APU is perfect for HTPC, which will usually have HDTV attached to it, so a low range GPU will not cut it.... How about a low watt HDTV which can surf, play your movies and a few games at 1080 on your TV?....I would, but AMD need to get this chip powerful enough for 1080 gaming.....otherwise people will just stick to CPU & GPU! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1305112 | 2012-10-04 19:59:00 | I would like to see software we use at work become multithread but you are talking decades of programming and testing. Can you buy a 20Ghz single core CPU? that would be awesome! | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1305113 | 2012-10-04 20:40:00 | I think they have the right idea, however they havent jumped onboard it enough..... AMD is such a long way from competiting with Intel, that power users will just get Intel CPU, so AMD has high end dGPU for that, so stop pi**ing around with a silly 76xx series GPU on this APU...This type of APU is perfect for HTPC, which will usually have HDTV attached to it, so a low range GPU will not cut it.... How about a low watt HDTV which can surf, play your movies and a few games at 1080 on your TV?....I would, but AMD need to get this chip powerful enough for 1080 gaming.....otherwise people will just stick to CPU & GPU! +1 To develop this fully would probably cost a massive amount of money that amd doesn't seem to have (largely due to their poor high end CPU performance). Bulldozer really needed to be what it promised. Hopefully piledriver is to bulldozer what phenom II was to phenom. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1305114 | 2012-10-04 22:25:00 | Is your Phenom II any good? | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1305115 | 2012-10-04 22:42:00 | It's *ok*, it's probably around q6670/q6660 (core 2 quad) level when at stock clocks. At 4.1ghz it's pretty close to the first generation of i5/i7 processors (750 and what not). I don't really do anything particularly cpu intensive so I'll be keeping it for a while. As a side note, Piledriver is confirmed to be on the am3+ platform this is a good thing because: 1) People who brought 990FX boards for the mess that was bulldozer have compatibility 2) Pleases OEMS 3) All AM3/AM3+ hardware isn't suddenly worth nothing (new or secondhand) 4) Phenom owners can upgrade without buying a new board I'll probably go out and buy a 990FX board as AMD have confirmed that all their new processors over the next few years will be backwards compatible to the AM3+ platform or will be released on the AM3+ platform. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1305116 | 2012-10-05 04:46:00 | I like how good AMD are for backwards compatibility. I very nearly went AMD when I built this thing. | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1305117 | 2012-10-05 06:16:00 | AMD are great like that. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
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