AMD's desktop APU sales fell 30 per cent in Q4 2014 says JPR

[HEXUS]

And its discrete desktop GPU sales were down by 16 per cent in the same quarter.

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[directhex]

Why would I buy an APU with an integrated GPU I won't use, where all the motherboards are creaking 3+ year old things, and performance sucks, and power consumption is mad?

[Percy1983]

Why would I buy an APU with an integrated GPU I won't use, where all the motherboards are creaking 3+ year old things, and performance sucks, and power consumption is mad?

I bought one as I was going to use the gpu, that mixed with good cpu performance, low power consumption and low price made the A8-7600 the perfect part for my HTPC.

I would say for HTPCs and general use PC's they are the best option.

[[DW]Cougho]

I bought one as I was going to use the gpu, that mixed with good cpu performance, low power consumption and low price made the A8-7600 the perfect part for my HTPC.

I would say for HTPCs and general use PC's they are the best option.

I use an A8-7600 in my HTPC too, it's a superb piece of kit for my needs. Of course an APU is not for you if you're not going to use the GPU.

[scaryjim]

I note they don't report any drops in AMD laptop APU sales - interesting

AMD haven't brought a compelling desktop APU upgrade to the market in a couple of years now: Richland was barely more than a clock bump on Trinity, and Kaveri only performed better than Richland in a few tests, depending on whether the suited the architectural tweaks. There are very few companies doing pre-built desktops with AMD APUs, and no drive for anyone to upgrade if they're already on AMD: so no surprise their sales are starting to drop. I don't see any strong indication that the next cycle of desktop APU refreshes (either Godavari or Carrizo) are likely to change that dynamic, either. AMD must be betting pretty heavily on mobile keeping desktop afloat until they can release another new microarch.

[hb904460]

Happy with my A6-5400K. Does everything i need; web browsing, email, office stuff, even plays older games such as; W40K Soulstorm, CoD2, Football Manager etc at max settings.
Unlocked multiplier makes it fun to tinker with.
Can get sub 23 second SuperPi and 6FPS average in Heaven 4.0 at ultra settings + tessellation!
Just waiting for the quad core APUs to come down in price.

[DanceswithUnix]

Discrete sales figures are interesting, but I doubt you can get much from the integrated results. Had a wander around PC World the other day, and lots of the machines there seemed to be either Atom J2900 based or the AMD equivalent netbook/tablet chip. Frankly if that is where the sales figures are coming from (presumably including the tablet chips that Intel is effectively giving away yet claiming as revenue) then I think that Adreno, Mali etc should be included in the mix as they are in the same Facebook surfing appliance category whether in a tablet or an all in one PC.

Edit to add: AMD score 0% in the mobile report, way behind the 3% that has cost Intel billions to buy

http://jonpeddie.com/publications/mo...e-gpus-inside/

[theleader]

I can see the day when all microprocessors will come with GPU built into it as standard, whether you use it to display graphics or not!

[MustardCutter]

It's a shame really, AMD's APUs are an excellent product for most of the tasks the general population could throw at them that the masses don't really know enough about.

[abaxas]

I can see the day when all microprocessors will come with GPU built into it as standard, whether you use it to display graphics or not!

I can see a day (not very many years ahead) when discrete graphics cards no longer exist.

[watercooled]

Why would I buy an APU with an integrated GPU I won't use, where all the motherboards are creaking 3+ year old things, and performance sucks, and power consumption is mad?

How can all the motherboards be over three years old when Kaveri, which uses a new socket, only came out last year?

Performance and power consumption are really quite similar to Core i3 which is where Kaveri is targeted at the end of the day. And if you're using the GPU at all, whether for gaming or compute, the i3 doesn't even come close.

And all of Intel's mainstream CPUs have integrated graphics on-die too - people over-exaggerate the cost savings offered by not having it.

[theleader]

I can see a day (not very many years ahead) when discrete graphics cards no longer exist.

Maybe discrete graphic cards will be replaced by discrete APU cards!

[bae85]

my media PC has a A10-5800k in it... it actually feels faster than my FX chip :/