About the same as reality has to do with your musings mmh?
Given the volume of worthless mundane PR regurgitation that goes on across so many "tech" sites, I can't imagine they elected to make no mention of it if there was anything at all worth mentioning.
Could be the Mar 18th number was BS.
edit: I sent Sarah an email asking her about it, will post her response if I get one.
Well there are quite a few items that are never reviewed for one reason or another. Like the Lumia 920 or HTC 8x. Sometimes it appears that they have an Axe to grind or just refuse to review products.
I was going to rant more about intel fanboyism and how intel cpu performance isn't that much better and that intel cpus are almost always poor value for money. but that is left for another post.
If a review of Richland is expected to be met with a collective "meh" upon publication, generate maybe $1k in revenue for website but cost $1.5k to produce and host the review then why pursue it if you are in the review business because you want to pay your mortgage and buy groceries?
Will those bastards at Intel ever rest?
Not only are they putting tech review sites under the boot and keeping them from even mentioning Richland, but they also stooped so low as to have forced AMD to delay putting it into mass production until just this month
That is a new low Intel.
And here I thought Intel was done messing with AMD after forcing Sanders to put Ruiz in as CEO. The cat and mouse game, it...just...won't...end...
However, at the same time it also doesn't make business sense for an editor to direct (invest) resources into reviewing a product that is not anticipated or expected to generate revenue for the review site that would be in excess of the incurred costs to develop and publish that review.
Your first guess was correct -- it was Scott Wasson over at The Tech Report. Then a bunch of people created some dumb conspiracy theory of him being butthurt and posting an article on the terrible latency issues that AMD's HD 7000 series was experiencing.Was it techreport that refused to participate in AMD's "offer" for review sites to do a staged 2-part staggered info release on Trinity? I know some relatively well regarded site did something like that...maybe I'm thinking of Alienbabeltech?
Richland isn't using GCN. And why are you looking at just the performance? Especially in a laptop, performance per watt and power usage are far more important metrics.I guess everyone ignored my previous post where I pointed out that Trinity was a re-badge. Is anyone really wondering what this 4 core/2 module piledriver chip with 384 GCN cores will perform like? Just overclock a Trinity A10-5800k by 300 Mhz base and 200 Mhz turbo clock and you will find out because there are exactly the same silicon.
This is more than a clock bump. There's more P-states, better turbo boost, and configurable TDP. No, it's not some revolutionary product. But it's bigger than you're making it out to be.Anand only released a two paragraph blurb about the i7-2700k because it also was just a clock bump, so there is nothing too biased about giving a "clock bump" chip little attention, especially one that is so far from the performance crown.
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Gonna drop this here:I guess everyone ignored my previous post where I pointed out that Trinity was a re-badge. Is anyone really wondering what this 4 core/2 module piledriver chip with 384 GCN cores will perform like? Just overclock a Trinity A10-5800k by 300 Mhz base and 200 Mhz turbo clock and you will find out because there are exactly the same silicon.
It's really annoying when almost all the tech sites ignore AMD. Richland is arguably the biggest news of the week and none of the websites have bothered doing reviews. The only review I've seen is on a chinese website where he retrofits a richland cpu onto a trinity msi laptop. I mean since when has a new usb stick or SSD become more important than a cpu release. It seems that along with the OEMs intel has the tech sites and everyone else in their pockets these days.
I was going to rant more about intel fanboyism and how intel cpu performance isn't that much better and that intel cpus are almost always poor value for money. but that is left for another post.
Elite series? Why AMD why, first they went with the mind numbing Fusion branding, now this.
Which does make sense considering the desktop SKUs are delayed until summertime after all.
From my understanding, Richland went into mass production in March (this month), so it may be some time before we seem some review samples.
I'm expecting a huge yawn now. They could have sent the processors or at least a reference design for reviews, but instead they sent nothing. Not a good of having something worth our money on the wings.
AMD stated (before New Year) that Richland(mobile I presume) started shipping to OEMs. Desktop version is scheduled for June,probably Computex time,along with FX performance refresh.
I'm expecting a huge yawn now. They could have sent the processors or at least a reference design for reviews, but instead they sent nothing. Not a good of having something worth our money on the wings.
TBH I kinda like it. Elite sounds better to me than Extreme.
Extreme makes me think of suicide clocking madness, balls to the wall and damn the torpedoes.
Elite makes me think of savvy, sophisticated system-level tuning and optimization.
Not that either label is actually reflected in the real-world usage of the underlying products, just saying how the "Elite" branding struck me at first blush.