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AMD Launches Three Kaveri APU SKUs in February 2014 – Feature Set For A10 and A8 APUs Detailed

That chart's pretty weird though - look at the OpenCL score for the i5. The 4670S has the same HD 4600 (GT2) graphics as the 4770K mentioned in the article I linked, so the iGPU should have peak SP performance of 400 GFLOPS, more than half of the 737 GFLOPS for the 7850K, yet it performs MUCH slower in OpenCL than software-only. Clearly that benchmark isn't using the iGPU in the Intel chip at all! Which is consistent with Intel only giving access to the GPU with Direct3D (although I thought there was a Windows Intel OpenCL driver now?).

Nevertheless, it does look like HSA is necessary to get close to peak performance from the iGPU, as the speedup from "software" to "HSA" is approx the same as the ratio of CPU GFLOPS (118.4) to CPU+GPU GFLOPS (855.7). Plain OpenCL only gives it a small speed up.

Can't wait for more HSA benchmarks!

Edit: lol here are some I missed two weeks ago! http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-kaveri-review-focused-on-hsa-features.197158/ Nice to see it killing the i5.
 
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suj999 said:
Let's end all the power requirement arguments..

Gigabytes is not that great! Never were, still not. End.

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/513...-asrock-fm2a88x-itx+-vs-gigabyte-f2a88xn-wifi
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Those are still the same numbers from the 5 board comparision they did using a 6800k.
Those numbers are a lot different with a Kaveri APU in either board.

You don't like Gigabyte boards, we get it.
Sadly, if you want a good overclocking FM2+ mITX board it's the only one worth considering.

The Asrock board will still appeal to people looking to run stock or with lower power APU's.
It does have better HTPC characteristics with the feature set of the board.
 
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So where are all the people with A10-7850K's/kaveri? Seems very quiet on here and overclock.net regarding it. Did AMD really miss the mark or something? The A10-7700 seems perfect for HTPC.s
 
Gazb said:
So where are all the people with A10-7850K's/kaveri? Seems very quiet on here and overclock.net regarding it. Did AMD really miss the mark or something? The A10-7700 seems perfect for HTPC.s
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The HTPC and super portable brigade are waiting for the A8-7600 to be released ;)
 
Gazb said:
So where are all the people with A10-7850K's/kaveri? Seems very quiet on here and overclock.net regarding it. Did AMD really miss the mark or something? The A10-7700 seems perfect for HTPC.s
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My opinion on this, Now I am experienced with m-itx and htpc so I'm not new to this type of system.
Currently Kaveri is too expensive, 7850k needs to be £85-90, and whilst performance is ok, in comparison to someone with uses a htpc based on Llano, Trinity, Richland. It seems mostly a pointless upgrade at the moment.
Igp gaming is ok but lacking, Don't understand people spending lots of money on memory for little gain, when a discrete 750ti, 7850, 7750 is a much better way to go.

Kaveri needs to shake up the £300 - £500 laptop market, I'm fed up of these oems using crappy kabini, temash based apus and asking strong money for them.

Nice architecture but nothing makes use of it yet.
 
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