For a while now, AMD has lagged behind in single core/lightly threaded performance. There have been fairly consistent leaks/press releases with a 30% IPC improvement for the past year or so for Piledriver>Steamroller.
Kalveri will also have a more tight coupling between CPU and GPU which can only be a good thing plus it's pretty much guaranteed that the GFX performance will improve substantially over Richland. I would be surprised if the top <=65w kalveri APU isn't a perfect HTPC CPU. With the added bonus that you'll be able to game on it as well. Not at high settings but that's not the end of the world.


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Primarily because I'm one of those who will wet the bed at the mention of heterogeneous computing and unified memory. It will also mean a better generation of 'good enough' gaming PCs. AMD is pushing hard on all fronts to get their multi-threaded and GPU accelerated vision of the future to developers and every refinement of their architecture can only be a good thing.
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