Forwarning: This does not necessarily concern APUs, but if you are like me and you use an APU powered system as your daily driver, it stands to reason that you err on the side of casual gaming. And, also like me, may be acquainted with “casual” folks spread across the spectrum of devices and operating
When AMD bought ATI the long-term plan was to integrate the GPU cores in the same die than the CPU cores to bring a new scale of heterogeneous computing. The integration has resulted to be harder than originally planned and only the last Kaveri APUs start to show the benefits of the integration. However, there
Legends: Crap – It is just so bad in a bad way. Meh – Acceptable but I just don’t like it. Good – More than acceptable and I kinda love it. Great – It is just so bad in a good way. Display is “Meh“- It is a less than stellar TN panel with minimum brightness and viewing angles.
I am not a wordsmith, so I’ll keep this brief. The HP Stream 14 is an interesting beast, the chassis of an ultrabook with the internals of a low end tablet. This juxtaposition is very odd to say the least and makes for an interesting machine. The Chassis The stream 14 has a shallow depth,
AMD just dropped a few nuggets of info on us, namely Carrizo and its freakin’ PUMA+ core toting mobile variant Carrizo-l! Not much is known yet outside of a few slides and a video by an AMD exec giving us a brief update on the dynamic duo. Below is a product overview and short term
OK, that headline is a bit much. Here we are, Novemeber 2014 with no solid details about carrizo. What we think we know so far is that carrizo should be a small evolution on kaveri, should utilize fm2+, dual channel ddr3, HSA 1.0 spec support and some kind of integrated fusion controller hub [more details
So Bungbungame made the rounds last week being the only OEM to use the a10 micro-6700t Mullins chip. The design seems to be similar to the ODM design by quanta at Computex 2013 . What’s new is that one of the guys at semiaccurate, using max level google-fu, has uncovered a Japanese news post containing photos, a video
Update The gameplay was very smooth and had no hitching, the artifacts in the video are due to the recording software MSI afterburner using the experimental vce codec plugin. ==========Licenses==================== All music provided by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The rumor mill is suspicious that AMD has canceled desktop Carrizo in lieu of performance scaling issues. But it is unlikely that they will ride out 2015 on only existing Kaveri APUs so I decided to take make a best guess on what upcoming desktop APUs might look like. You may be reading this because
These are the embedded versions but they do line up with the consumer versions feature-wise. A few things to note: 2nd Generation HSA New UVD 6 and VCE 3(also found in tonga) This is a tad more exciting, things to note: New small core dubbed “Catamount” 20nm process tech HSA support for small core