You know what, this could be pretty killer with Lucid Virtu. Do any AMD boards come with it?
I am curious how asymmetric crossfire works in reality with the a10 and the 6570 and 6670.
Re: Dual Graphics- Tom's Hardware did some benchmarking, seemed to scale up pretty nicely. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a10-5800k-a8-5600k-a6-5400k,3224-4.html I still personally think it's more trouble than its worth (especially when AMD get bored of giving it driver support on newer games).
I agree. If you are going to add a discrete card, just go with Intel in the first place.
Regarding the A10 desktops, the pre-built systems seem to be where they should have the best position. If I were going to build my own desktop I definitely would not go with an APU.
The problem with the OEM market, is they have to get the price down. For instance, I saw an A10 desktop at costco for 699.00. The problem was that next to it was a Levano i5 for 599.00. Add a HD7750 for around 100.00 to that and you would have very much better CPU and GPU performance for the same price. The A10 is still borderline for 1080p gaming with modern titles. Cant even run Skyrim at 1080p at 30fps. I only see a place for this for casual gaming or older titles. As usual, AMD is a day late and a dollar short. The SB i5s are so cheap now that they are difficult to pass up.
Did the intel OEM box have a PCI E slot?
Did it have a power supply capable of handling the extra wattage?
Does the case accomodate expansion?
Which system had more RAM and at what speed?
The Radeon GPU in that APU is more than capable of playing games enjoyably.
Hd4000, not so much.
I agree. If you are going to add a discrete card, just go with Intel in the first place.
Regarding the A10 desktops, the pre-built systems seem to be where they should have the best position. If I were going to build my own desktop I definitely would not go with an APU.
The problem with the OEM market, is they have to get the price down. For instance, I saw an A10 desktop at costco for 699.00. The problem was that next to it was a Levano i5 for 599.00. Add a HD7750 for around 100.00 to that and you would have very much better CPU and GPU performance for the same price. The A10 is still borderline for 1080p gaming with modern titles. Cant even run Skyrim at 1080p at 30fps. I only see a place for this for casual gaming or older titles. As usual, AMD is a day late and a dollar short. The SB i5s are so cheap now that they are difficult to pass up.
I did not specifically see if it has a pcie slot, but the case was large enough for an add in card and one pcie expansion slot is pretty much standard. I specifically mentioned the 7750 because it does not require external power connector.
And I never said the hd4000 was better. The a10 is definitely better than hd4000, especially on the desktop.
If the a10 was a couple of hundred dollars cheaper I could better rationalize the sacrifices in performance relative to a discrete card.
I did not specifically see if it has a pcie slot, but the case was large enough for an add in card and one pcie expansion slot is pretty much standard. I specifically mentioned the 7750 because it does not require external power connector.
And I never said the hd4000 was better. The a10 is definitely better than hd4000, especially on the desktop.
If the a10 was a couple of hundred dollars cheaper I could better rationalize the sacrifices in performance relative to a discrete card.
It may not need an external connector but it still draws power.
I see no sacrifice in performance with an A10; spend more money you get more performance. I could spend the same $100 on an upgrade to the AMD system and get Dual Graphics to walk all over the inetl based one.
The sacrifice would be having to buy another part to be competitive on inetl's system. With the A10 you also get compute acceleration, which more and more ISV's are taking advantage of.
For this market AMD is more than competitive.
IMO
The Intel i5 comes with the HD2500 which can't play many games. So, unless you get an i7 or a special i5 with the HD4000 then the standard desktop will have an HD2500.
And many of the desktop boxes are not configured very well. My brother came home all excited because he had bought a new computer with an Ivy i7 3770 16BG of ram and Nvidia graphics card. He got it for $1000 and after I congratulated him I kinda laughed. Here's a guy who knows a few things about computers as the CEO of a small broadband company and he comes home with an overpriced pile of crap. I took a took a look at the machine and it was so unbalanced it was funny. It was an Asus with a 300W PSU, the fastest consumer i7 (which includes the HD4000), 16GB of ram, 2TB harddrive, and an Nvidia 520 GT video card. Why the hell would they drop in an Nvidia 520 GT? It's the same as the HD4000. He thought he got a decent gaming box. I ripped out the 520 GT and put in a 7750 because that was all the thing could support.
He would have done so much better with an AMD Trinity for what he wanted the computer for (casual gaming) than his i7 and 520 GT. Desktops are confusing for even educated consumers and they are so poorly specced. At least the Trinity could have played Diablo III on High.
The Intel i5 comes with the HD2500 which can't play many games. So, unless you get an i7 or a special i5 with the HD4000 then the standard desktop will have an HD2500.
And many of the desktop boxes are not configured very well. My brother came home all excited because he had bought a new computer with an Ivy i7 3770 16BG of ram and Nvidia graphics card. He got it for $1000 and after I congratulated him I kinda laughed. Here's a guy who knows a few things about computers as the CEO of a small broadband company and he comes home with an overpriced pile of crap. I took a took a look at the machine and it was so unbalanced it was funny. It was an Asus with a 300W PSU, the fastest consumer i7 (which includes the HD4000), 16GB of ram, 2TB harddrive, and an Nvidia 520 GT video card. Why the hell would they drop in an Nvidia 520 GT? It's the same as the HD4000. He thought he got a decent gaming box. I ripped out the 520 GT and put in a 7750 because that was all the thing could support.
He would have done so much better with an AMD Trinity for what he wanted the computer for (casual gaming) than his i7 and 520 GT. Desktops are confusing for even educated consumers and they are so poorly specced. At least the Trinity could have played Diablo III on High.
So nv is teaming with inetl to pawn off their uncompetitive cards now.
How would the 7660d do against my old 4830 Ati?
Try playing a youtube clip on a 2nd monitor while gaming on an IGP. These things have not been vetted properly. As far as I know I am still the only one who has ever written a review that points out the very very serious critical problems with IGP multitasking performance... even basic multitasking such as a facebook game plus a youtube clip.
It looks okay-ish. Trinity doesn't make much sense for enthusiasts looking for cheap gaming because then you can just buy a Celeron G530 + Radeon HD 6670 DDR5 for the same price and enjoy much, much higher frame rates.
I don't think people quite understand the point of Fusion; it's lower component cost through integration and decreased total power consumption. Harping on about pairing an Intel CPU and a graphics card doesn't negate either of those goals seeing realization.
Yea, it is a conspiracy against pure and holy AMD.
A discrete HD4830 would absolutely destroy any of these IGPs. Far more than you'd ever see in the benchmarks. Try playing a youtube clip on a 2nd monitor while gaming on an IGP. These things have not been vetted properly. As far as I know I am still the only one who has ever written a review that points out the very very serious critical problems with IGP multitasking performance... even basic multitasking such as a facebook game plus a youtube clip.
A discrete HD4830 would absolutely destroy any of these IGPs. Far more than you'd ever see in the benchmarks. Try playing a youtube clip on a 2nd monitor while gaming on an IGP. These things have not been vetted properly. As far as I know I am still the only one who has ever written a review that points out the very very serious critical problems with IGP multitasking performance... even basic multitasking such as a facebook game plus a youtube clip.
Just started reading this thread and have a late comment.I didn't say I volume did I? I said budget (you may know it as cheap). Look at AMD's margins. Now look at Intel's margins. Intel's shareholders expect those high margins. Intel isn't going to enter a market where they can't maintain their margins. As IDC said, it's why they got out of the HDTV business.
Number of chips produced is not only way to measure market share. It's probably more important to measure market share in dollars or profit. Not that Intel is low volume. They currently produce about a million chips a day, seven days a week.
Again, I never said what you are saying I did, as I never said anything about either companies market failures.
Do you really want to go there in this thread? Because this isn't the place for it.