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The APU chips all have GPUs that handily beat Intel's and still have TPD from CPU+GPU of 100w or less. My desktop is an A8 from 2013 and while no power house ev
by Avshalom 11y ago
The APU chips all have GPUs that handily beat Intel's and still have TPD from CPU+GPU of 100w or less. My desktop is an A8 from 2013 and while no power house even while new it runs XCom and GRID just fine (though I am using the very up-to-date drivers from the oibaf ppa)
- AlgorithmicTime 11y agoYeah, but you need to use an AMD CPU. And their performance has not yet caught Intel. Hopefully the new Zen architecture will make them competitive again.
- cm3 11y agoI compile a lot of code and also encode videos where an Intel i3 will beat the APU. That's the dilemma I'm in, and it's a pity that the Zen APUs don't arrive until 2017. First it's the CPU only Zen chips, but maybe the new AMD GPUs will allow for low-power variants.
- cm3 11y agoHow is the smoothness of the AMD drivers? Any tearing as it reliably happens with all Intel GPUs and latest kernels and X drivers if you don't force vsync?