AMD Trinity APUs Stack Up Well To Intel's Core 3

Barence writes "AMD's APUs combine processor and graphics core in the same chip. Its latest Trinity chips are more powerful than ever, thanks to current-generation Radeon graphics and the same processing cores as AMD's full-fat FX processors. They're designed to take down Intel's Core i3 chips, and the first application and gaming benchmarks are out. With a slight improvement in applications and much more so in games, they're a genuine alternative to the Core i3." MojoKid writes with Hot Hardware's review, which also says the new AMD systems "[look] solid in gaming and multimedia benchmarks, writing "the CPU cores clock in at 3.8GHz / 4.2GHz for the A10-5800K and 3.6GHz / 3.9GHz for A8-5600K, taking into account base and maximum turbo speeds, while the graphics cores scale up to 800MHz for the top A10 chip."

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Re:Wow

[lightknight]

Or use Windows or possibly Gnome...or do OpenCl or OpenGl programming...or-

The list goes on. The fact that people are still selling craptacular integrated video chipsets in this day and age saddens me greatly. Guys, it's 2012...pony up for a dedicated video card with dedicated video ram. Quit trying to save a buck or two on a component you really don't want to be cheap on.

Listening to the constant roar of bullsh*t over integrated video cards vs. dedicated video cards, and how 'it will only matter to a gamer' ranks up there with the mindless debates about whether a regular user 'needs' an aluminum or copper heatsink. The answer is yes to copper (unless you can get something better, like silver), and yes to a dedicated video card.

Do you know what video card a hard-core gamer is going to use? Whatever it is, it will be 2 or 3 of them in a CrossFire of whatever configuration. That's a gamer.

Re:Wow

[Mad Merlin]

Now this seriously bums me out, as I believe in competition and have been building AMD exclusively for the past few years, ever since the OEM bribery and compiler scandals came out. But since MSFT has already said they aren't gonna backport the scheduler fix (they have only released a patch, since withdrawn I believe) and thanks to this boneheaded design you'll have a boat anchor tied on your system you really only have 4 choices, 1.-Disable half the cores, 1 per module, so you are basically only getting half of what you paid for but each core then has a full FP unit,2.- OC the living hell out of it to use speed to make up for the penalty, 3.-Stick with the AM3 Phenom II units, this has been what I've been doing as the Phenom II quads and hexacores are dirt cheap now and still have decent speed, or 4.-Don't buy AMD.

You're missing the elephant in the room... don't use Windows.