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Love Anandtech, clutter free straight to the point review with the stuff that matters. Boils down to: Kaveri itself is a nice evolution from the previous APUs
by kayoone 13y ago
Love Anandtech, clutter free straight to the point review with the stuff that matters.
Boils down to: Kaveri itself is a nice evolution from the previous APUs and offers healthy performance gains and the lower end model matches performance of previous top APUs at lower power consumption. CPU performance is largely unchanged and they wont be able to challenge Intel with the Bulldozer architecture which will be around until 2015.
Its a very nice APU for Desktops that need some gaming/gpu chops, but nothing revolutionary as the Intel CPUs with integrated Iris Pro are in the same league when it comes to GPU performance and even outperform the Kaveri in many benchmarks.
HSA (Heterogenous System Architecture) has a lot of potential and could be a model for the future, if that works out with the market adopting remains to be seen though.
- sireat 13y agoGood review as usual by Anand. However, it is sort of silly to compare the extremely expensive $400+ (they are expensive to make too) Iris Pro CPUs with Kaveri. It is much more reasonable to compare CPU and GPU performance to mainstream chips like i5-4570 which have 4600 graphics.
- kayoone 13y agoyes taking price into account thats true. But one could make the argument that even a $50 discrete GPU will be much faster. Just wanted to give the perspective that, while the performance is pretty good, its not the fastest on-die gpu.