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FRONTPAGE AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU Preview
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There is an interesting take on today's 'preview' NDA at TechReport. I think it's possibly a little much, but he does make some great points. TBH, we don't have benchmarks today because I was out of town and unable to review this one, so we had to ship the hardware over to Lvcoyote. Now that I've read that, I'm kind-of glad it worked out that way.
Out of that piece, I'd like to stress one important thing:
Anyway, I saw that and thought it was interesting.
There is an interesting take on today's 'preview' NDA at TechReport. I think it's possibly a little much, but he does make some great points. TBH, we don't have benchmarks today because I was out of town and unable to review this one, so we had to ship the hardware over to Lvcoyote. Now that I've read that, I'm kind-of glad it worked out that way.
Out of that piece, I'd like to stress one important thing:
I'm not sure how many sites do such things, but let me stress that Overclockers has never done any of that. We will show features the manufacturer requests occasionally, by which I mean we'll say "ManufacturerX wants to point out Y", which you've seen in my reviews from time to time. We have never and will never extol features our audience finds useless as great just because the manufacturer says to. Even so, we either list or link to specification lists in pretty much ever review, so that's pretty moot.
Anyway, I saw that and thought it was interesting.
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A typo there! Says "DorectX" instead of "DirectX".
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Yes, that's correct; but the point he is making is that AMD is controlling the launch by only allowing sites to publish GPU results. Obviously Trinity's GPU is strong and should (in theory) beat the pants off Ivy Bridge's GPU (while, in theory, costing less...we can't share that information at this point). AMD should very well be proud of that, they've done an amazing job with on-die GPUs.
The two-module CPU portion, however, won't exactly set any records. So they're literally putting their best foot forward...and holding back the negative. We all know initial launch articles get the highest number of views. The follow-up articles (when they come out, which we can not say but it's not too far away) won't get near the eyes the ones today will. Thus it sort-of equates to sweeping the less-than-stellar x86 performance under the rug.
The two-module CPU portion, however, won't exactly set any records. So they're literally putting their best foot forward...and holding back the negative. We all know initial launch articles get the highest number of views. The follow-up articles (when they come out, which we can not say but it's not too far away) won't get near the eyes the ones today will. Thus it sort-of equates to sweeping the less-than-stellar x86 performance under the rug.
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That makes sense when put like that, but any websites that are that concerned about it aren't obligated to do that. Clever of AMD, but not too surprising since they are killing it in GPU's and barely getting by in the x86 side of things. They are a business after all, can't expect them to not try and find a way to look as good as they can.
Guess it now becomes the review sites job to ensure they produce unbiased reviews. Regardless of what companys try and do.
Guess it now becomes the review sites job to ensure they produce unbiased reviews. Regardless of what companys try and do.
The 7660 is a vliw4 gpu right? So, a variant of the 6000 gpu's. Is it confirmed that these have a new socket? Fm2?
Edit: now that I think about it, I think I saw pictures of some of the new boards. Are they backwards compatible with fm1?
Edit: now that I think about it, I think I saw pictures of some of the new boards. Are they backwards compatible with fm1?
It looks like AMD want the review restricted to GPU benchmarks until it's released, at which point it's ok to review CPU x86 performance.
That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
There not trying to stop it's CPU performance from being tested full stop, they just want it to be taken on merit for the market it's aiming at.
It's not intended for x86 performance, it's an APU. (an IGPU with on DIE GPU Hardware acceleration)
They don't want it's x86 CPU performance to dominate the headlines when that's not what it is.
I'm fine with that, but still interested in there x86 performance
The Vishera chips are intended for x86 performance. those are also what i'm most interested in. (for x86 reasons)
That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
There not trying to stop it's CPU performance from being tested full stop, they just want it to be taken on merit for the market it's aiming at.
It's not intended for x86 performance, it's an APU. (an IGPU with on DIE GPU Hardware acceleration)
They don't want it's x86 CPU performance to dominate the headlines when that's not what it is.
I'm fine with that, but still interested in there x86 performance
The Vishera chips are intended for x86 performance. those are also what i'm most interested in. (for x86 reasons)
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They'll be ready when the NDA lifts, complete with x86 performance. Lvcoyote will bw bringing these to us. When, we can't say...but soon!
Really looking forward to this review as it'll give some idea of the discrete desktop piledrivers due out soon. My 1090T feels a little long in the tooth after two years in my PC
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Edit- aha... Trinity A10-5800K in stock and for sale in the UK
Good price, the same as an Intel i3
Also have a look at this
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