AMD Carrizo Pre-release thread

[DrMrLordX]

Looks like there are a lot of 8700P chips floating around right now. Where are the 8800Ps?

 

[Dresdenboy]

Looks like there are a lot of 8700P chips floating around right now. Where are the 8800Ps?

There are some models on preorder. Google "FX-8800P Saturn".

 

[AtenRa]

I will jump to the first 14" 768p FX8800P iGPU ONLY, 2x 4GB 2133MHz i will find.

 

[maarten12100]

According to Digitimes all OEMs are currently busy getting rid of laptops inventories bigger than expected due to the market lack of dynamism.

I'm waiting because they have stock of junk. Life sucks when monkeys are in charge :awe:

 

[Abwx]

I'm waiting because they have stock of junk. Life sucks when monkeys are in charge :awe:

One just has to look at Geizhals pricer, HW offering is twice BDW offering..:biggrin:

I will jump to the first 14" 768p FX8800P iGPU ONLY, 2x 4GB 2133MHz i will find.

I also thought so, before i realized that a 14" 4:3 screen is 21.3cm high while a 16:9 is only 17.4cm, that s considerably less and is inadequate for displaying texts that are generaly in A4 format.

With 16:9 it takes a 17" to get back to 21.2cm screen height, no wonder that in H1 2014 69% of the laptops sold in the US were 15"6 with the 17" taking a 12% chunk...

This same 15"6 format is favoured in Europe as well, at some point thoses numbers say that people are not stupid at all, they had to compensate for screens whose versatility was greatly reduced over time while being successfully, and misleadingly, promoted as a progress..

Surely it was one for the panels manufacturers...

 

[Dresdenboy]

An A10-8700P based HP Pavilion got already 6 ratings/4 reviews in Canada with avg. 4.2 pts, objectively ranging from "No good performance" (one 1 star rating) to "the speed is incredible". Those humans..

http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product...-12gb-ram-windows-8-1-17-g084ca/10380793.aspx

 

[Burpo]

Respectable Passmark scores (2)..
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A10-8700P&id=2542

 

[frozentundra123456]

I will jump to the first 14" 768p FX8800P iGPU ONLY, 2x 4GB 2133MHz i will find.

I really doubt OEM's are going to put 2133 mhz ram in a low/mid range laptop. Be lucky to get dual channel.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Respectable Passmark scores (2)..
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A10-8700P&id=2542

Depends on the TDP. If it is 15 watt, it is pretty good. If it is 35 watts, or even 20 plus, not so much.

 

[el etro]

An A10-8700P based HP Pavilion got already 6 ratings/4 reviews in Canada with avg. 4.2 pts, objectively ranging from "No good performance" (one 1 star rating) to "the speed is incredible". Those humans..

NewEgg should know a popular tool called Banhammer. Fanboys of determinated brand trying to do spill PR over a competitor product, in a e-commerce, in order to scare away the people from certain product is a ridicule thing. Utter pathetic.

 

[Abwx]

Depends on the TDP. If it is 15 watt, it is pretty good. If it is 35 watts, or even 20 plus, not so much.

Suddenly TDP become an issue..

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-6200U+%40+2.30GHz&id=2556

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-4200U+@+1.60GHz&id=1947

At some point it s clear that some SKUs eagerly eat well above their rated TDPs, so with such numbers how one could use Passmark as a tool for comparisons..??

Or are numbers suspicious only when it s a given brand that get good scores..?.



Other than that some basic configuration from Dell, not as good as HP offering unless i missed something..

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-Silv...y-1TB-Hard-Drive-and-Windows-10-Home/45976115

Only Carrizo laptop from this brand so far, rest are Carrizo-Ls..

http://www.notebookocean.com/dell-inspiron-15-5555-specs/

 

[therealnickdanger]

WTF

10/100Mbps? No GbE on these things? $800?

 

[jime1]

WTF

10/100Mbps? No GbE on these things? $800?

Agree..
10/100 is so old now, Dunno why those OEMs just wont give it up

also, it feels like the OEMs are kinda ashamed of there carrizo notebooks !!

 

[coercitiv]

10/100Mbps? No GbE on these things? $800?

Some OEMs do have this problem on value oriented builds, no matter the CPU used: Dell did it for a few consecutive models in their Inspiron line.

also, it feels like the OEMs are kinda ashamed of there carrizo notebooks !!

OEMs are always "ashamed" of their value/budget lines.

 

[VirtualLarry]

WTF

10/100Mbps? No GbE on these things? $800?

Well, better 10/100 ethernet, than NO ethernet, like this Dell N2830 laptop I'm currently using.

 

[AtenRa]

I really doubt OEM's are going to put 2133 mhz ram in a low/mid range laptop. Be lucky to get dual channel.

I will be fine even with a single dimm if i can change/upgrade the memory my self.

 

[Abwx]

Acer E-5 552 with a A10-8700P, at 768p or 1080p with usual screens, and no dGPU...

http://fr.acer.ca/ac/fr/CA/content/model/NX.MW9AA.001

http://www.acer.no/ac/no/NO/content/model/NX.MWWED.001

 

[jime1]

I wonder when 1 of those will arrive in my region :\

 

[AtenRa]

I dont expect any Carizzo laptops to come to Greece in 2015, ill buy from Germany.

 

[therealnickdanger]

Well, better 10/100 ethernet, than NO ethernet, like this Dell N2830 laptop I'm currently using.

Brutal.

In this day and age, I would expect a 10/100 chipset to be more expensive than GbE - kinda like how DD2 is more expensive than DDR3. I have a USB 3.0/GbE adapter that works very well, so it's not a total deal killer, but it sure seems like a limitation. My other budget notebooks/desktops (some of them are 10 years old) have all had GbE. Maybe not Intel-branded GbE, but even Realtek is better than 10/100.

 

[Dresdenboy]

Acer E-5 552 with a A10-8700P, at 768p or 1080p with usual screens, and no dGPU...

IIRC this was one of the models used for the early geekbench leaks. So according to some forum members this should be configured to have a 35W TDP...

 

[Abwx]

IIRC this was one of the models used for the early geekbench leaks. So according to some forum members this should be configured to have a 35W TDP...

Quite possible since there s no dGPU, using the same cooling device as those versions they can push the TDP to those levels.

That said they better not send it for review at NBC, this site seems to currently slaughter anything AMD using nebulous methods.

 

[Dresdenboy]

Quite possible since there s no dGPU, using the same cooling device as those versions they can push the TDP to those levels.

It's surely possible. But that NB family used to have 15-19W CPUs.

 

[therealnickdanger]

Alright... W10 has been out for a week... AMD has new drivers... where are the motherbleepin' Carrizo reviews?!?

/patience

 

[ShintaiDK]

You didnt believe that Carrizo waited for Windows 10 did you?