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Richland powered kit also boasts AMD Radeon R9 M275X discrete graphics.
Richland? Hmmmmm, seems a bit pointless to me. Kaveri or bust.
That Richland part is 35W, when Kaveri laptop parts come out I suspect they will update the design. In the mean time, it looks to be a nice little box, and it looks like the engineering was already paid for?Quote:
Originally Posted by Biscuit
http://www.pcper.com/news/Systems/CE...rk-Steambox-PC
That looks like an awesome little machine but how much will it cost? I like the styling but I hope they have an all black option because it would look out of place under the TV.
SteamOS on a radeon. Lol.
Struggling to find info online re the discrete GPU so hoping someone can answer.
Its a Mobile part right? and will be running in Crossfire with the APU?
How many shader cores is that total? and how does it compare to say a 512 shader Kavari part?
If this can be updated to a Kaveri + Crossfired Mobile Radeon, this could be a nice little gaming media centre box for the living room. Hopefully by that time I'll have the cash and need for such a machine.
This, hope its updated soon as its just what I am looking for!
I had a look around and no price as of yet.. gotta wait for the units to be shipped for a guess. As for the A8-5557m "The graphics unit called Radeon HD 8550G offers 256 shader units (VLIW4) and clocks slightly higher than the HD 7640G at 554 - 720 MHz. With fast dual-channel memory, performance is expected to match a dedicated Radeon HD 7570M." So could be ok for low to mid range settings for gaming unless they do allow crossfire. Then should be able to handle mid to high settings on some games at 1080p. Again im only working on guess work atm so please dont treat what i say as gospel, what we need is some real world testing..Hexus will help us out with that in time no doubt :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Platinum
looks very smart would love to see this benched.
Seriously, this. If I've said it once, I've (probably literally) said it a thousand times, Radeon + Linux = Fail. People need to stop putting those words together in the same sentence until AMD actually replaces fglrx, because that's the only way they'll ever get Linux drivers that work reasonably well.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhex
Desktop performance? Those are parts look like notebook/laptop performance to me.
Where does the name "Kaveri" come from? It means "a friend" in Finnish, but is that where it comes from? There's also a river called Kaveri in India.
They're pretty rapidly improving catalyst on linux, presumably in anticipation of exactly this type of solution. Kaveri + ddr4 and a mobile radeon crossfire would make a pretty impressive low cost steam machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
AMD likes to use place names, so I would imagine it was named after the River Kaveri.
Depends on which line of Rx M200 parts it's based off. The top end R9 M290X is a 1280 shader part. The R7 M265 appears to be oland-based (384 shaders). If the M275 takes more after its big brother I don't think crossfire would be worthwhile, since the A8 is only a 256-shader part. If it's just a faster clocked oland part, though, crossfire might be plausible. Then again, I'm not sure AMD would countenance using the R9 tag for two SKUs based on the same GPU. R9 is meant to be the performance segment, so I'd hope the R9 M275X is a much beefier bit of silicon than oland...Quote:
Originally Posted by Platinum
AFAIK it's named after the river.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikkeli222
My thoughts as well, I'd add that it should have faster ram too to maximise the onboard gpu.Quote:
Originally Posted by sykobee
By the time DDR4 is adopted by AMD I think Kaveri will have been superseded :)Quote:
Originally Posted by herulach
They've been 'rapidly improving' it for more than a decade. They're still lagging behind kernel, and X.org releases, stability is still rubbish, and the performance is still miserable. Nothing has really changed since the last Radeon I bought. As far as I'm concerned the entire driver is defective end-to-end, and tweaking it is like trying to get a destruction derby wreck to perform like a Formula 1 car. There's no point handing out false hope to people, it's just going to upset their Linux/SteamOS experience if they do own/purchase AMD graphical hardware for that purpose.Quote:
Originally Posted by herulach
The only thing you can suggest to people is, 'give it a go and see'. You learn pretty quickly how much hard work it takes to get working for such poor results.Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
There is also an Intel based equivalent too AFAIK with the same GPU.
However,it also makes the Iris Pro version a bit pointless - it looks to be a similar size to this model.