As you're prob already aware, the 7750 will be faster for gaming, but I would go for the kaveri just for giggles and something new to play about with.
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AMD Launches Three Kaveri APU SKUs in February 2014 – Feature Set For A10 and A8 APUs Detailed
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As you're prob already aware, the 7750 will be faster for gaming, but I would go for the kaveri just for giggles and something new to play about with.
Ok stupid question but if the A10 7850K only has 512 GCN cores why on earth did they call it the 7850K (the 7850 has 1024 GCN cores), just another confusing naming system.
One of these days we are all going to be shocked when a company comes up with a straight forward naming system.
One of these days we are all going to be shocked when a company comes up with a straight forward naming system.
The APU naming scheme is different from the GPU line, there is no direct correlation. A10 indicates top range, 7850K indicates a step up from the previous best chip the 6800K. So the new A10 APU high end part is A10-7850K, the actual graphics part of the chip will have a different name altogether..
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7643/amds-kaveri-prelaunch-information
not much more than we already knew
Up to 20% higher x86 ipc
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PCIe3
Their reasoning beihind 12 compute cores
not much more than we already knew
Up to 20% higher x86 ipc
True audio
PCIe3
Their reasoning beihind 12 compute cores
If they release another FM2 Athlon X4 it will be interesting, say a 770K. A £60 CPU that could stuff the FX-4350 would not be something to sniff at, especially as it would probably be able to beat or at least compete with Intel CPUs up to 2.5x it's price.
Not sure about that tbh, the dual core Haswell's can already compete with AMD's FX chips in a lot of programs and games and they start from £40.. The Haswell refresh might see Intel pull further ahead..
As an all in one solution though, these APU's look great, looking forward to trying out the 7850K.. I think AMD will shift a ton of these APU's..
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Kaveri + 290X Running BF4 with Mantle.
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These are being widely reported as launching on the 14th.
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CUD B GUD.
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That is my thinking, plus the computing power of a 7850k will far surpass my 6400k, and I can always add a graphics card later (hopefully a current gen low-profile more powerful than a 7750).
Mobile GPUs have been guilty of this for years, they always perform well under their discrete counterparts. A 7970M performs like a 7870.
If it really has near Lynnfield grade IPC though then it will basically perform sort of like an i5 7xx, and as a K series it's overclockable. An i5 7xx clocked at 4.2GHz is a decent chip even by today's standards, and people are managing to get 4.5-5GHz out of the current Richland Athlon X4 750K.
Maybe I am just getting clouded by fond memories of K6-III's and Thunderbirds but the idea of a £60 AMD CPU with that level of IPC and the potential to hit 4.5-5GHz gets me excited lol, it should be enough to put any locked i5 on notice.
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Agree with Uber, I'm desperately hoping my Lynnfield IPC prediction is somewhat accurate (I'm getting pretty good with this prediction stuff's when it comes to AMD, from delays, to cancellations 
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Although, then you've got to wander about why AMD aren't producing an 8 core (I hear memory bandwidth, but then Quad Channel)
Don't think it'd be as cheap as 60 if they made an Athlon version of it, AMD don't price low when they think/know they're onto a winner, the FX8150 launched at what now? Oh yeah, over 200 quid.
)Although, then you've got to wander about why AMD aren't producing an 8 core (I hear memory bandwidth, but then Quad Channel)
Don't think it'd be as cheap as 60 if they made an Athlon version of it, AMD don't price low when they think/know they're onto a winner, the FX8150 launched at what now? Oh yeah, over 200 quid.
Haha I agree, would love AMD's SR chips to have much better IPC, the leaks we had so far do look pretty good, I'll remain cautiously optimistic. The Haswell refresh could pull Intel ahead again, so might still be a large gap...
Lol @ your comment, tis very true. Remember the FX 9590 coming in at about £800 or whatever, that was crazy. I think / hope these chips will be reasonable, although I have seen the A10-7850 at around £165, hopefully that's just launch error pricing..
Nice find.
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I never put faith in AMD's launch pricing, all the PD stuff ; Trinity/FXX3XX's were good (Bar the FX4300) though however.
Exactly so out of all the numbers they could have chosen they randomly choose 4 in a combination that just so happens to be the same as one of their Graphics cards, completely stupid.
Exactly so out of all the numbers they could have chosen they randomly choose 4 in a combination that just so happens to be the same as one of their Graphics cards, completely stupid.
I dunno bud I think most people understand that a A10-7850K APU isn't the same as a HD 7850 GPU. The GPU part of the APU will have a range number like 'R7' something that indicates it's performance level..
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Now you know why AMD changed the Naming scheme on discrete GPU's... lol
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Could have called it an A10 7800K.
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