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AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU

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Is the AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU worth waiting for? Or am i better off getting an Llano A8?

Also when is the AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU coming out?
 
Rumored to launch in June or July of this year.

"Estimated" to be a 50% improvement in the graphics department vs Llano, if thats important to you then it might be worth waiting for the reviews that should appear in the next month or so.
 
I would wait. It's only a month away and it's a completely new socket as well. Huge gain in gpu performance and a gain in cpu performance as well.
 
Best to wait. The cores are based off Piledriver so it would be nice to see how they compare with the current Athlon-based Llanos.
 
what socket are these to be on? A completely new one? I have toying with the idea of building an amd machine and was eyeing up the a6/a8 or 8150 to have a mess about with.
 
Legion said:
The mobile chips will have these gains, not the desktop parts!

For the desktop there will be marginal gains, but don't expect it to be earth shattering.
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You speak with authority, but many sites seem to contradict what you say!
Softpedia amongst many other sites seem to think the A10 5800k APU is the desktop part, Link, and will see significant gains in the graphics department.

I'm not saying that the many Hardware news sites are right and your wrong, but I thought it was the desktop part. Could you post your source/s that says otherwise, will help me and im sure others understand.

And I know the improvement is just speculation, hence the " " around Estimated.
 
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mmj_uk said:
Is Piledriver the successor to BD?
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"AMD's next-generation APUs combine processing cores based on the Bulldozer architecture with a VLIW4 GPU derived from the Cayman graphics used inside the Radeon HD 6900 series. These cores will go by the name of Piledriver and will support a series of new instruction sets introduced with the Bulldozer architecture, such as AVX and AES-NI, as well as DDR3-2133 memory." Source.

From reading the above I would say no, but could be wrong.
 
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Any news on what kind of graphics card they can be crossfired with such as a HD6670(now HD7670) or a HD7750 or dare I say a HD7770?
 
mmj_uk said:
Is Piledriver the successor to BD?
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which means a reduction in instructions per clock. so clock for clock trinity will be slower than llano. and to compensate trinity will be clocked much higher than llano.

either way its not worth bothering with. better off going with ivybridge for considerably increased cpu power.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
which means a reduction in instructions per clock. so clock for clock trinity will be slower than llano. and to compensate trinity will be clocked much higher than llano.

either way its not worth bothering with. better off going with ivybridge for considerably increased cpu power.
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The only thing that matters, beyond the initital outlay, is performance per watt, either at stock for the majority of users, or overclocked for the mighty few.

Theres no doubt ivy will be a better cpu, but I'd argue that trinity is probably the more rounded package. If you're talking about sticking with IGP, then I'd take the AMD APU everyday.
 
mmj_uk said:
Is Piledriver the successor to BD?
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Piledriver (also known as Enhanced Bulldozer) is it's successor, however I would imagine it will be tweaked a bit to suit Trinity, probably with less features than the full Piledriver to cut down power consumption. The main aim of Piledriver is to improve on the IPC, which Bulldriver desperately needs. Another feature is "resonant clock mesh", which recycles clock power and should help with the performance per watt. If it can't beat the Phenom II, I would be very disappointed... Using Llano in my laptop, but had to overclock it to 2.4ghz to get decent performance in games. It feels like it's holding back the IGP :(.
 
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