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AMD Trinity prices leaked

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The top end Trinity processor which costs less than an i3 performs on average 40% better than an i7 ivybridge?

All we have to do is wait for Trinity to roll out and AMD to revise the resistor count by a couple hundred million and blame performance issues on Windows 8 compatibility problems.
 
valkynaz said:
Hilarious:

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The top end Trinity processor which costs less than an i3 performs on average 40% better than an i7 ivybridge?

All we have to do is wait for Trinity to roll out and AMD to revise the resistor count my a couple hundred million and blame performance issues on Windows 8 compatibility problems.
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It's a gaming performance slide for a APU's, its the APU with its IGPU vs listed Intel's with there IGPU's as a whole (no descrete GPU) i have no doubt its right as it ties in with other independent benches already done on Trinity.
 
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humbug said:
It's a gaming performance slide for a APU's, its the APU with its IGPU vs listed Intel's with there IGPU's as a whole (no descrete GPU) i have no doubt its right as it ties in with other independent benches already done on Trinity.
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My silly mistake about the test, should have known better, I blame the time. However to be fair, this test still doesn't mean much. Those users who will be using the top end processors will indeed be using discrete GPUs rendering the iGPU useless.

The test was merely an empty marketing tactic to show the Trinity APU "flexing" it's muscles by outclassing the i7 in inappropriate and unlikely circumstances. I highly doubt anyone is going to be purchasing a top end processor from either side just to play games on low/medium settings with poor FPS.
 
humbug said:
It's a gaming performance slide for a APU's, its the APU with its IGPU vs listed Intel's with there IGPU's as a whole (no descrete GPU) i have no doubt its right as it ties in with other independent benches already done on Trinity.
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I think he's on about the ludicrous scaling of the bars to the figures. AMD and Nvidia do the same on their discrete GPU's.

Also, we can't take the dollar value and convert it to pounds (We also don't pay dollars), having said that, I checked new egg and the dollar value is only 10 dollars more than the i3.
 
These are good for HTPC's where a good IGPU is an advantage. or a budget Desktop. Not intended for high end Desktop's
 
valkynaz said:
My silly mistake about the test, should have known better, I blame the time. However to be fair, this test still doesn't mean much. Those users who will be using the top end processors will indeed be using discrete GPUs rendering the iGPU useless.

The test was merely an empty marketing tactic to show the Trinity APU "flexing" it's muscles by outclassing the i7 in inappropriate and unlikely circumstances. I highly doubt anyone is going to be purchasing a top end processor from either side just to play games on low/medium settings with poor FPS.
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OTH,almost every review which tested the HD4000 IGP used the Core i7 3770K and NOT the Core i5 3570K and compared this against sub £100 AMD A8 CPUs,so I don't see any issue AMD doing the same. Even the internal Intel slides leaked about the HD4000,were using the Core i7 3770K IIRC. The cheaper Core i3 3225 has only been released this week too,and the IGP has lower Turbo Boost than the IGP found in the Core i5 3570K and Core i7 3770K.
 
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It's Intel's best iGPU offering against AMD's best iGPU offering to make a very clear point. Pick an Intel version for the same price and the Y axis could possibly represent an FPS count, so either way you look at it Trinity will rule that sector.

People could even consider going with an A10 with a compatible discreet GPU for even greater performance and still under the price of an i7.
 
MichaelM said:
It's Intel's best iGPU offering against AMD's best iGPU offering to make a very clear point. Pick an Intel version for the same price and the Y axis could possibly represent an FPS count, so either way you look at it Trinity will rule that sector.

People could even consider going with an A10 with a compatible discreet GPU for even greater performance and still under the price of an i7.
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I agree that Trinity will be good for its purpose and better than Intels IGP.
That said, no one's buying an Ivy i7 to play on the HD4000.
 
Very good pricing. Excellent as a HTPC chip. And you could always pair it with a discrete AMD card in Crossfire if you want to game at higher res/settings.

Unless you're going to be doing a lot of number crunching this chip micturates all over i3 at the budget end of the market. I imagine they'll be very popular with low-end system builders too.
 
Price looks good especially if topping out around the Core i3 price.

Would like to see how these compare against the Core i3 if so.
 
I believe from benchmarks trinity is 25% slower clock for clock compared to the sandybridge core i3. However, the majority of the line up has unlocked multipliers. Having said that, the top of the line chip has 4.2GHz turbo boost which skews the results a bit, for an entirely single threaded task this should be the maximum speed of the chip at stock, so it might possibly be 33% slower clock for clock.

On the other hand this is not entirely relevant , as the mobile benchmarks confirmed that the power consumption/performance ratio is comparable to the i3 chips despite the higher clocks. They might be onto a winner here, especially if people can get these chips close to 5GHz without silly amounts of heat being dissipated. I'm more inclined to wait for vishera however as the addition of level 3 cache is important.
 
Agnostic said:
They only use percentage to divert the fact that it's still only a 7fps difference; considering it's igp performance.
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Actually the average is over twice that. So with some games the added FPS would be very beneficial because none of them are 60fps with the Ivy iGPU.

Skyrim: +9.3fps (HD4000 - 33.4fps)
Starcraft2: +24.5fps (HD4000 - 44.6fps)
Dirt 3: +15.5fps (HD4000 - 29.9fps)
Metro 2033: +3.9fps (HD4000 - 20.5fps)
Crysis Warhead: +20.4fps (HD4000 - 50.9fps)

Add in some overclocking and Trinity has a strong chance of giving a solid gaming experience with current generation titles for only i3 prices.
 
iGPU is an incredibly useless comparison, its a no brainer that every new CPU range will be able to integrate a slightly better low end iGPU. Wake me up when I can get an Intel Hex core integrated with GTX 680 graphics performance.
 
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