Incredible Performance from On Board APU.

[Marine-RX179]

Its a damn 90quid chip... I don't get why AMD have to surpass their competitors by more than double in some cases, charge less and STILL get whiners.

It's not whinning...point is that while AMD is on the right direction, it is still not there yet. I mean would you seriously recommend something around the performance level of GT440 for gaming at 1920 res to someone? Or tell them to increase their budget to go for a 6850, or a 5770/7750 as the bare minimum?

A Pentium G840 and a 7750 would cost around £125. While it is around £30 more than the A-10 5800K...it would at least make games much more playable at 1920 res.

 

[humbug]

It's not whinning...point is that while AMD is on the right direction, it is still not there yet. I mean would you seriously recommend something around the performance level of GT440 for gaming at 1920 res to someone? Or tell them to increase their budget to go for a 6850, or a 5770/7750 as the bare minimum?

A Pentium G840 and a 7750 would cost around £125. While it is around £30 more than the A-10 5800K...it would at least make games much more playable at 1920 res.

If you want to spend more money on a rig with a discrete GPU then that's what you would do anyway.

I think your missing the point.

You can build a Trinity rig the size of your xBox and stick it next to your telly, the minute you put a discrete GPU in it's just another cumbersome Desktop needing a Monitor, Keyboard........

 

[Smoogels]

I quite like the APU's myself. AMD is doing good with them.

While the performance could possibly be outmatched when you get a Intel+discrete GPU a for a little more, the APUs still have several perks to them.

It has somewhat lower power consumption, less noise, 'smaller' cases, ability to do hybrid crossfire etc. The quad cores also have better multithreading over the dual core Intels, for obvious reasons. With games and software advancing to use more cores, it could potentially be 'better for longer' (but I suspect the speed/graphics capability would bottleneck before that anyways)

For the price, you get pretty good performance and I suspect that several computer manufactures would love to offer this in there system. On the value prebuilt market I can imagine that more will be powered by APUs, well, if Intel did not dominate at marketing

 

[Marine-RX179]

If you want to spend more money on a rig with a discrete GPU then that's what you would do anyway.

I think your missing the point.

You can build a Trinity rig the size of your xBox and stick it next to your telly, the minute you put a discrete GPU in it's just another cumbersome Desktop needing a Monitor, Keyboard........

That is valid point, IF the low-profile 7750 and mini-itx case like the Antec ISK 310-150 didn't exist. Though that specific 7750 is a little bit overpriced in the UK at the moment I have to admit.

 

[kitch9]

It's not whinning...point is that while AMD is on the right direction, it is still not there yet. I mean would you seriously recommend something around the performance level of GT440 for gaming at 1920 res to someone? Or tell them to increase their budget to go for a 6850, or a 5770/7750 as the bare minimum?

A Pentium G840 and a 7750 would cost around £125. While it is around £30 more than the A-10 5800K...it would at least make games much more playable at 1920 res.

Its a 720p or 1280x1024 chip for gaming and will play everything out there. Most of my mates are running 1280x1024 PC world special monitors on 4 your old machines so this would be a good upgrade for them.

If you want to game at 1080p you'll need to spend more than 90 quid simple as that you always have done. Most the reviews for some reason seem to want to review the APU with games running MSAA. MSAA is dead, it hammers performance on all cards in most new games, there's no way an IGP will run it.

Also display scaling what is it? Something AMD are particularly good at you should know.

That is valid point, IF the low-profile 7750 and mini-itx case like the Antec ISK 310-150 didn't exist. Though that specific 7750 is a little bit overpriced in the UK at the moment I have to admit.

Awesome, now if only the 7750 wasn't the same price on its own as a A10-5800k......