Caporegime
It was the original b2 revision, as b3 was announced a week after launch which removed it.
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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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Caporegime
ah, ok.
Caporegime
I could be making it up, but I'm sure it was an AMD PDF too.
Problem is a lot of those reviews have ended up being true...
I'm still cautiously optimistic though.
Soldato
Not as impressed as I hoped I would be with those GPU scores.
I have a GTS 250 which I recently ran the SFIV bench with and got around 85fps (will have to check the AA settings, res was a little lower at 1280x1024).
Recently moved to AM3+ from an ancient rig, and had been wondering if I'd backed the wrong horse - but Kaveri isn't quite as mind blowing as I'd been imagining.
Caporegime
They're probably at the memory bandwidth limitations.
Those results don't paint it in a good light though.
It needs to come in the 6800K's price point really.
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Don't suppose the Quad Channel had anything to do with the rumored GDDR5? Of course that idea seems long dead and it doesn't make sense to leave it on the chip.
Might yet make use of it on something other than desktop but that seems unlikely.
Might yet make use of it on something other than desktop but that seems unlikely.
Soldato
If any of these results are vaguely accurate I am now official not interested about the lack of 8 core SR cpu's 
Much disappoint.
Such mediocre.
Was planning on building a Kaveri based small form factor PC this month, looks like it will have to be a Haswell dual core instead
Once you try that Haswell dual core that frown will turn upside down
Caporegime
Much disappoint.
Such mediocre.
Was planning on building a Kaveri based small form factor PC this month, looks like it will have to be a Haswell dual core instead
It depends. Whereas my enthusiasm for the A10 7850K is not very high ATM,the same cannot be said for the 45W/65W TDP A8 7600. It looks to be under £90 and IMHO looks the sweetspot of the range. It looks like it will actually be a decent improvement over the 45W TDP A10-6700T. I suspect the 65W TDP A10-7800 will also really make the A10 7850K look redundant,in the same way the A10-5700 and A10-6700 made the A10-5800K and A10-6800K look meh.
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Caporegime
Once you try that Haswell dual core that frown will turn upside down
No way a locked 2 core chip is better than an unlocked 4 core, you can get the AMD unlocked 4 core to match the locked 2 core Intel in single threaded performance and destroy it in multithreaded performance, plus you get a vastly better iGPU to boot.
Even the the unlocked 4 core Athlon without the iGPU cost nearly half as much as the i3 while doing the same as i described.
Caporegime
Hard to say, in FPU performance benchmarks like Cinebech, the Haswell i3 would probably be faster than your average 4.8GHZ FX4300.
Definitely better multi-threaded like, and FX6300's comes in at i3 prices, and the more expensive i3's are at FX8320 prices
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Caporegime
Yes they do.
Caporegime
I edited, but an i3 Haswell in say Cinebench would outbench a single core of your average 4.8GHZ FX4300.
This is my stock clock (Turbo) single threaded result ; http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae22/PrimalAir/4770Ksinglecore.png
Look at Cat's Ivy result at 3.4 ; http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25272063&postcount=245
And this i3 comes in at 3.4 ; http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-492-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567
So it's FPU improvement is about 10%, and then you're beating a 5GHZ PD core in FPU.
Haswell's got a fair improvement in FPU performance
Not that I'd buy either.
You'd buy an FX6300 every time.
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Caporegime
The FX8320 sorry but no hinting and with a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P or Asus M5A97 Evo R2.0 for around £70 should make a nice little setup. OTH,an FX6300 and a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO would cost around the same.
Caporegime
Indeed, some i3's are more expensive, Intel are out of touch.
Caporegime
TBH,most Core i3 sales are for OEM PCs and laptops and the like,so whether they were 10% cheaper,10% more expensive or 20% slower they probably will still sell the same amount of chips!!
Intel has no real incentive to make the Core i3 fantastic or priced well as they can supply chips in volumes AMD cannot. They want performance users to buy Core i5 CPUs instead as it makes them more money,and if they make the Core i3 look a bit crap in comparison it sort of pushes people upwards. Intel,after all, are the kings of product segmentation.
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Caporegime
Bit annoying your post was edited Cat, OCUK had the FX8320 at the price you mentioned just the other day.
Caporegime
Not a bad amount of processing power for the price!
Anyone seen reviews for the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P?? The earlier Gigabyte Motherboard GA-970A-UD3 was not bad but was limited by its lack of LLC.
The UD3P is not only slightly cheaper than the UD3 but also retains its 8+2 phase VRM too. It seems to be only around £70.