Why aren't you using an APU yet?
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Asher Long
Easton James
but i am user.
Christopher Bell
stop shilling for amd :^)
Thomas Foster
cause I'm poor
Sebastian Reed
Soon
Carson Hughes
because that other thread last week implied I should be using a pentium 4 so I threw out my i5 and bought a pentium 4.
should I buy an APU?
Alexander Mitchell
do APUs crossfire with video cards for extra performance yet? otherwise whats the point?
Charles Thomas
enjoy you're macrostutter
Josiah King
Yeah but its referred to as
"Dual graphics"
Gavin Ramirez
amd.com
oh nice. didnt know they finally did this. does it work well?
Jaxson Bell
>does it work well?
I have no idea
Parker Edwards
hardwaresecrets.com
this site did some testing and it actually seems to work well. they used a lower end apu and video card though.
i wonder if zen apus + vega dual graphics will be a big thing. sounds exciting.
Christian Lopez
Yes it does user! And even a higher end apu with hbm would be very, exciting!
Jack Lee
APUs let you play 6 year old games on low.
The bottleneck is the iGPU that is barely faster than a GeForce 8800GT from 2007.
Isaac Turner
The gpu used on APU's is usually an underpowered version of AMD's graphics cards. AMD managed to achieve this because of the way they design their processor cores which leaves a ton of die space to be able to put a full blown GPU in there.
It's not recommended because in the end you get a weaker process, and its performance can be beat easily by just getting a discrete processor+gpu combo. If you're on a tight budget though then it's worth considering.
Mason Myers
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Gavin Jones
>I can't afford discrete graphics
>So I think i'm better than you
stay poor user
Owen Rodriguez
>AMD APU
>bottleneck is the GPU
no its the shitty bulldozer cpu that is the bottleneck
Xavier Sanchez
Retard, AMD real meaning is
Advanced Micro Devices.
Advanced than intel
Charles Davis
I'm waiting for AM4 APUs before I jump back in
Lincoln Johnson
Honestly for gayming you're better off with something like a i3 6100. Twice as high single core performance than the best AMD CPUs.
Joshua Peterson
it's about 50% faster per core, + Hyperthreading puts it ahead of an APU, but an i3 would still lose to an FX 8 core in multi-threaded performance
also the iGPU on the APU is of course stronger so it can actually run some demanding games, AM4 APUs with DDR4 shouldn't have any real competition from intel
Connor Stewart
The CPU isn't that weak.
Owen Carter
-> loo
Henry Peterson
cuz apus are shite
Caleb Thomas
A10 7800 4 cpu cores 8 graphic cores 3.5
8 g ram
multiburner, multicard reader, usb3 holes everywhere.
keyboard
mouse
$399 Canadian.
Now watch me shitpost.
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Oliver Davis
Say that to my face fucker not online, see what happens
Zachary Campbell
fuk u my father beats you're father
Henry Stewart
>$79.99
>Q2 2014
vs
>$189.99
>Q1 2011
user please...
cpubenchmark.net
That's somewhat better comparison. i3 = better single threaded performance, APOO = better overall benchmark performance as it has more cores