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Amd drop prices on nearly all desktop cpus.

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
HMMM:

http://www.techpowerup.com/164915/AMD-Gains-CPU-Market-Share-at-Intel-s-Expense-in-Q1.html

IIRC,sales in Asia have been quite decent,so their APUs are a good strategy for them.
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43% of the desktop market? that's more than i thought.

As for APU's, they work well as there the only thing that will enable a laptop to play DX11 games.

Even the old out going A8's on DIE GPU is 30% faster than Intel's best HD 4000 GFX, The in coming Trinity is 50% faster than the A8.
BF3 on a Laptop without the need for expensive discrete mobile GPU's.... no problem, and as an added bonus you save a lot of battery power.

Its the same story with Desktop APU's, and they can crossfire with a cheap 6670 GPU which will bring it up to 7770 levels for little money.

APU's are also hardware wired to use the on DIE GPU as a compute accelerator.
So x86 apps like Photoshop get a massive performance boost. so much your talking in multiples, not percentages.

Its the way of the future.
 
Whilst they are not completely down and out like others when sorting out my upgrade this year i never even thought about an amd system but like many i waited for BD hoping they would deliver something competitive. That is a sad statement for amd to deal with to not even be considered when people are upgrading and yes i know enthusiast sector is tiny it is still a sector to appeal too as all other big players do and amd has a lot of catching up to do in that area. Hopefully they can make up some ground with the PD series but for many like me i will have done my 4 yearly upgrade by then and as such not a chance of making me a customer for at least four-five years and to think i had three amd systems on the trot how times change sadly.
 
SFFNoob said:
RAM modules you say?
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Yeah, both DRR3 Desktop and GDDR5 Graphics

http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/radeon-memory/Pages/amd-radeon-memory.aspx

Seemed a bit silly to me to start with getting into a market that's already flooded, but then again if they don't have to buy in Memory for there APU's and GPU's there saving money, and i guess it wont hurt to also put them on the market.

@ bhavy, actually the Performance range are 1600 (CL8) 8-8-8-24
Radeon range is 1866 - 2133 (CL9)
 
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