AMD - Piledriver chitchat

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

TDP of 220w = holy **** , my air cooler cannot begin to cope oO

I do wonder if it actually does better than an overclocked FX8350 at 4.6GHZ with regards to power consumption and TDP though??

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I saw this over on OcUK:

http://i.imgur.com/3MVSXSo.png

HD8000 to be released soon??

[HalloweenJack]

depends on which rumours you listen to - HD8xxx for desktop apparently isn't happening and is OEM only....

[DanceswithUnix]

I do wonder if it actually does better than an overclocked FX8350 at 4.6GHZ with regards to power consumption and TDP though??

I thought that was the sort of consumption you got at those clock speeds anyway?

[watercooled]

Probably, but it seems a bit harsh to be charging the rumoured price if all they're doing is selling you a pre-overclocked part. I was expecting at least a rare bin.

[HalloweenJack]

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A..._Review/7.html


apparently TPU clocked it t 205w @ 5ghz , much down on the BD at that speed.


hmmm maybe by aircooling has a chance (lol)

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Scan lists the A10-6700 with utterly fail pricing:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/04-06...-cache-4200mhz

£126,really now??

[HalloweenJack]

£30 more than the chip it replaces - yeah that works.

btw , having seen some benchies for the 8670D - what ram speed was being used??

[DanceswithUnix]

Early adopter gouge, good advert for the 8350 though

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

£30 more than the chip it replaces - yeah that works.

btw , having seen some benchies for the 8670D - what ram speed was being used??

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2309611

Not sure what RAM was used,but it is safe to say the A10 6700 should be faster than the A10 5800K and consume less power. They now need to work on he price,LOL!

Early adopter gouge, good advert for the 8350 though

AMD forgets they are not Intel or Nvidia!!

[watercooled]

Is that a reflection of the RRP though, or just retailers bumping the price up while they clear existing stock?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It looks like AMD is developing NUC like boxes with OEMs:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/d..._Partners.html

Edit!!

It seems Richland will cost more than Trinity:

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2013/2...land_APUs.html

However,it is not 30% more.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Temash tablet hands-on:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/03/g...paign=Engadget

It is made by Gigabyte.

Edit!!

Pictures of NUC like boxes:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7011/c...ix-haswell-too

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems TR actually measured power consumption of the GT3e part:

http://techreport.com/r.x/core-i7-4770k/power-idle.png

http://techreport.com/r.x/core-i7-4770k/power-peak.png

The part actually consumes more power than a desktop Core i7 4770K!!

The Core i7 4770K is meant to be a 84W TDP part and the mobile Core i7 a 55W TDP part. Anandtech bumped up the TDP of their sample to 69W for the review too.

It is probably no surprise as the IGP is estimated at around 165MM2 in size which is over 30% bigger than the chip in the HD7770,plus another 84MM2 for the L4 cache.

I suspect the reason the GT3e parts cost so much,is at 350MM2 in size,it is not a cheap chip.

Its a shame sites like TR did not review the A10 5700. I suspect the A10 6700 will be ignored by most too.

[watercooled]

So the HQ part is the one with L4? I agree with Charlie, the naming system is woeful. I mean the iSomething naming has never made much sense, but at least it's generally had some rough rules to it within a generation. That's just completely gone out of the window now though.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

So the HQ part is the one with L4? I agree with Charlie, the naming system is woeful. I mean the iSomething naming has never made much sense, but at least it's generally had some rough rules to it within a generation. That's just completely gone out of the window now though.

Yep and I think it is not really helping with power consumption though.

The Intel test system used is meant to exactly replicate a laptop according to TR. It even uses SO-DIMMs,a three phase VRM and even the PSU is made to simulate a battery and the CPU is not socketed too.

The TR socket 1150 system is using a high end board,with multiple phases(less efficient),full DIMMs and a PSU way out of its efficiency range at low IGP only loads.









The problem,is though it could mean a discrete GPU and one of the lower TDP Intel mobile chips might end up giving better gaming performance,similar power consumption, and costing less, the disadvantage possibly being pure CPU performance,and a more complex motherboard.

No wonder Nvidia is boasting:

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/31...-talks-haswell