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    AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

    Is Hexus getting one in for test then? Would be nice to see some benchmarks that aren't hand picked by AMD!

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

    Who compares graphics gaming performance against anything that's *30? Even if it is LoL and other supposed E-Sports? Once again, PR at it's worst -

    Hey, look at me! I'm better than the 2nd worst offering of a generation!

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

    @guidoLS it's to do with price-points. It'd be daft to compare a 100ukp graphics card with a <100 pound CPU. So, they've taken a 35-40ukp graphics card and a 50ukp cpu. Assuming a 90ukp pricetag for the AMD part, that seems a reasonable price comparison (about 90ukp on each). They could also benchmark against a low end i3 with no descrete GPU.

    Their point is that a price equivalent setup from intel/nvidia is outperformed by their APU. That's entirely reasonable, and a positive message all round. If you're building a PC to a low budget, and intend to have any kind of 3D capability, an AMD APU like this is a perfectly valid choice. On the flip side, you'd also be well advised to wait until you have another 50-100ukp and open up more options. But isn't that always the case?

    This is definately a product for the sub-300ukp PC brigade, and that's entirely fine.

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

    well, they finally made cpu thats actually cheaper AND better than i3... so as far as budget systems concerned they have done it

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

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    @guidoLS it's to do with price-points. It'd be daft to compare a 100ukp graphics card with a <100 pound CPU. So, they've taken a 35-40ukp graphics card and a 50ukp cpu. Assuming a 90ukp pricetag for the AMD part, that seems a reasonable price comparison (about 90ukp on each). They could also benchmark against a low end i3 with no descrete GPU.

    Their point is that a price equivalent setup from intel/nvidia is outperformed by their APU. That's entirely reasonable, and a positive message all round. If you're building a PC to a low budget, and intend to have any kind of 3D capability, an AMD APU like this is a perfectly valid choice. On the flip side, you'd also be well advised to wait until you have another 50-100ukp and open up more options. But isn't that always the case?

    This is definately a product for the sub-300ukp PC brigade, and that's entirely fine.
    Nothing personal, but I'd expect a quad core offering with their newest APU to beat a dual core w/a 730 attached. I think I'd be disappointed if they didn't. I wouldn't brag about it.

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

    @GuidoLS Indeed, but the only quad core parts intel have to offer are the much less impressive atom-esque parts (J1900 or whatever they're offering this year) or i5s at 50ukp more. The cheapest i5 on scan is 120+VAT roughly, whereas I'd imagine the AMD APU will be 90-ish inc. If it's more than 100ukp its a fail IMHO. Thus the only real choices are "top-of-the-dual-core-pile" or "the lower end of i3". My guess is that in the games they're talking about, a dual-core+730 is actually faster than an i3 with integrated graphics, so pound for pound, AMD are actually being quite reasonable. That said, I suspect the i3 might have done better in other tests which would have shown up AMDs traditional IPC weakness.

    Note, I only supply Intel system, so I'm no AMD fanboy, although I used to supply AthonXP/64/X2 systems when they were competitive. These days the Intel IPC single threaded performance is critical for my customers so AMD can't really compete.

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

    looks good and prices are really affordable

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

    If Intel were to give a G3258 or an i3 the best integrated Iris pro graphics for a similar price to the A8 surely they would be onto a winner?

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    Re: AMD's latest Kaveri refresh APU is the affordable A8-7670K

    This looks quite good. If I was building a PC that's not for games, I see no reason not to go for an APU given the price and performance.

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