AMD trims prices across its APU lineup

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Shehriazad

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7850K @ $127? Now that is hard(er) to beat price/performance vs dedicated GPU.

That should've been the release price. Not to mention that actual prices can be expected to go below that. Can expect this chip to pop up for $110.
 
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SPBHM

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7600 still looks like the best option, and not just relative to the other APUs, I think overall it's quite good compared to Intel for this price.
 
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Phynaz said:
And Intel's response is...
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... Iris and iris pro on broadwells, if they keep up with traditions and boost igpu 25-30% for skylake we will be looking at a halfway decent vga FOR FREEE instead of being charged full price for the igpu, which is the case for the apus.
 
DrMrLordX

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SPBHM said:
7600 still looks like the best option, and not just relative to the other APUs, I think overall it's quite good compared to Intel for this price.
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Actually, the 7650k . . . oh wait someone else got there before me.

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The 7650K is obviously missing on TR article, unless its price is unchanged, but still...
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It's a new SKU. Basically, it's the 7700k at 7600-like prices. The 7650k remains the best buy for Kaveri at the moment.

Obviously AMD is trying to clear out stock of older Kaveri SKUs along with the 7800. What they are not discounting is the 7650k, 860k, or 840.
 
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from my foggy memory:
llano and trinity had ~$130 for their highest K model on release
richland and kaveri raised it.

I see this as a return to what it was. Kinda like the burger joint that is losing business so they raise the prices to compensate.
 
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Lowering the prices is a good move. Kaveri was overpriced to the beginning, and the GPU performance was heavy bottlenecked by the memory subsystem. The newer nodes delays pretty much destroyed any chance of regain market share by AMD.
 
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Mobile, mobile, mobile! Just get some fricking 35watt apus in mobile that dont throttle like crazy. Now I would sacrifice a fair bit of gaming quality to save 500.00 or so on a light gaming laptop vs intel plus discrete. But honestly on the desktop, the price difference is so small that a cut of a few more dollars on an apu is not going to sway me to buy it. That *is* a nice cut on the 7850k, but what that really shows is that it was way too expensive to begin with, and is too bandwidth and thermally limited to offer performance that commands much premium over the lower level chips.
 
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Fanatical Meat said:
Keep selling high performance, low failure CPU's at a higher price point than AMD. I really want AMD to do well just to have another option but the low cost leader almost never wins.
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Walmart would tend to disagree ;). In many respects laptops are commoditized and are very "walmart" like in the sales and value approach
 
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Headfoot said:
Walmart would tend to disagree ;). In many respects laptops are commoditized and are very "walmart" like in the sales and value approach
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Your comparing apples to oranges. Walmart is a distributor not a mfg. Walmart delivers low prices because they beat vendors down on pricing and then have ultra efficient delivery methods but they still make their margins. With AMD the market beats up AMD for lower pricing and then AMD commits to wafers it can't sell. Not a good business plan.
 
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According to post #6, the A8-7650K is now $95 and the A8-7600 is now $85.

I wonder how much difference exist for CPU downclocking while playing games? (The A8-7650K does come with a 95 watt TDP, so I suspect AMD was more generous with clockspeed at various processor p states.)
 
DrMrLordX

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It doesn't matter how much difference there is, any user can thwart that behavior. Or just run Linux/SteamOS, where the behavior doesn't exist in the first place.

The 7700k has a default p5 state of 2.8 ghz. I would imagine that the 7650k is similar.
 
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Abwx

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The 95W moniker is sticked to whatever has the K denomination, irrespective of actual TDP.
 
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DrMrLordX said:
It doesn't matter how much difference there is, any user can thwart that behavior.
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.....Through AMDmsrTweaker, which is something I think most people are not going to use.

What AMD needs is a very simple utility with a GUI that allows someone to disable CPU downclocking under iGPU load.
 
AtenRa

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As i have said before, in 99% of the games you will be iGPU limited and CPU downclocking doesnt affect gaming performance. Unless you run at 800x600 low quality.
 
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AtenRa said:
As i have said before, in 99% of the games you will be iGPU limited and CPU downclocking doesnt affect gaming performance. Unless you run at 800x600 low quality.
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And in these GPU limited scenarios you describe the frame rate is a fluid 60 FPS?
 
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BRB, I'm downloading Battlefield 4 to my Athlon x 4 860K computer to see how high I can get the frame rate at various low detail/resolution settings.

My video card is a R7 250X (but I can reduce GPU and memory clocks by half in MSI Afterburner to *somewhat* approximate an APU's iGPU)
 
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