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AMD Carrizo Pre-release thread

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VirtualLarry said:
That's what I was thinking. First-gen i7, true quad-core, is not "slow". Maybe needs the cooling fans / vents cleaned? New thermal paste? Re-install OS? Add SSD?
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I have a 3.06Ghz Northwood that's still going. It doesn't struggle with any of the web browsers. 🙂
 
So apparently Lenovo s 14" E465 is available with a FHD screen only in Europe while the US market only get 768p screens...

http://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad_E465


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http://www.anandtech.com/show/9843/...g-ted-hung-andy-tung-motherboards-notebooks/2

IC: Well with the integrated graphics discussion, AMD recently launched Carrizo to notebooks, but it seems as if it might be a nice fit in a desktop system as well. (In fact Dell has done so in the Inspiron 3656.) Would you ever consider putting Carrizo onto a motherboard for a desktop? Given it is 15 watts, it could be cooled passively in a desktop under the ECO brand. As you had a Haswell ECO, you could supplement it with a Carrizo ECO. Has this been discussed?

TH: It has, because a few years ago we also did that with AMD’s Brazos. With the motherboard, I think to MSI both are great in terms of low power consumption and better performance but we also make products based on the market, if it is requested by customers. So MSI is open to the idea.
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Would like to see that product.

Perhaps also with a CPU fan header and provisions to screw a fan to the passive heatsink. Then have 35W/42W (boost) cTDP option in the BIOS.
 
This kind of performance from an old 28nm process and a crappy arch made for high freq is absolutely stellar. True soc and only a tad slower than low end i3/i5 for cpu and a tad faster in gaming. Still puzzles me how its possible at all.
All done on low r&d. Its the engineering miracle of this decade.

But it looks like battery life is not quite where the core line is - and its a huge deficit - and who needs that gaming perf?

It looks like a product without a market to me. Intel can just lower prices of entry core line and bundle some cheap 940 and a10 is not interesting.
 
So, Carrizo will be supplanted by Stoney Ridge sometime within the next 6 months or so. We may never see the FX8800P in its full glory. Anyone think that AMD will get their act together and address the laptop misconfiguration issues plaguing so many Carrizo systems?
 
The Stilt said:
No.
Stoney Ridge is a Carrizo intended for tablets. It has two CPU cores, three GCN CUs and single channel memory.
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Could be nice, but unfortunately, the tablet market is not very robust anymore. TBH, I think both Intel and AMD have missed the boat in mobile. They might get some niche tablet markets from Windows diehards (like me actually), but Apple and Android are getting more and more firmly entrenched and their processors are becoming much faster as well.
 
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I do think OEMs that used Carrizo in 35W configuration (was it just Lenovo with the Y700?) should have labeled it so on the outside.

Otherwise how is a person to know whether or not they had the souped up 35W version or the 15W version?

If I was someone looking at a FX-8800P laptop and didn't know it was 35W, I would be inclined to pass on it if I saw another FX-8800P next to it that was thinner, lighter and cheaper.
 
Fjodor2001 said:
Not what I'm looking for myself, but very good value for money. A10-8700, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 1080p IPS display, Impressive!

Here's another one for you at only $329.99:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-...lack/4475100.p?id=1219751165592&skuId=4475100

Similar specs, except for the CPU and 1366 x 768 LCD display.

Amazing that you can get a capable laptop for that little. The major drawback is weight though.
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the laptop you linked to is carrizo-l, vs carrizo.
 
Fjodor2001 said:
Not what I'm looking for myself, but very good value for money. A10-8700, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 1080p IPS display, Impressive!

Here's another one for you at only $329.99:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-...lack/4475100.p?id=1219751165592&skuId=4475100

Similar specs, except for the CPU and 1366 x 768 LCD display.

Amazing that you can get a capable laptop for that little. The major drawback is weight though.
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Definitely not a 1TB SSD though, it's a 5400RPM model. Still, if that actually is a 1080p IPS panel, that's a pretty good price. Add on another $65 for a 240GB SSD and you've got yourself a decent little laptop.
 
Didnt look at it that closely, but I saw an A10 laptop on display at Costco today. I think it had the 8700P and "dual graphics", but I dont know what the dgpu was. It was 599.00 I think, not too bad, 1080p screen.

Only bad thing is that it was a 17 inch model, and seemed awfully unwieldy. If I am going to be handling a 17 in model, I think I would want some serious computing power in exchange for the size, like a quad intel and 960M or above.
 
frozentundra123456 said:
Didnt look at it that closely, but I saw an A10 laptop on display at Costco today. I think it had the 8700P and "dual graphics", but I dont know what the dgpu was. It was 599.00 I think, not too bad, 1080p screen.

Only bad thing is that it was a 17 inch model, and seemed awfully unwieldy. If I am going to be handling a 17 in model, I think I would want some serious computing power in exchange for the size, like a quad intel and 960M or above.
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yeah, dual graphics and large size with an apu isn't optimal.
 
The Stilt said:
No.
Stoney Ridge is a Carrizo intended for tablets and 17' $200 craptops. It has two CPU cores, three GCN CUs and single channel memory.
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FTFY. Dont dismiss the power to put AMD ultramobile products in abnormaly large and lowly specced notebooks.
 
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