AMD's quip on Valentines day

[Cerb]

AMD has had a multi-tasking advantage for quite some time now, still can't figure out why Intel has not addressed the issue.

Hmm? I was pretty sure they took care of it with the Core i series introduction.

 

[podspi]

Interesting they went after the i7 instead of the i5 or i3.

Also, that model number is terrible...

 

[grimpr]

http://www.youtube.com/user/AMDUnprocessed#p/u/5/mdPi4GPEI74

while they never give away the clock speed, it looks impressive.

1.8ghz. Llanos Radeon graphics looks like its 2x faster overall in this video, mops the floor with HD3000.

 

[Arkadrel]

http://www.youtube.com/user/AMDUnprocessed#p/u/5/mdPi4GPEI74

while they never give away the clock speed, it looks impressive.

Now that is a nice video
Think its clear the Llano grafics card > sandy bridge grafics card.

Intels sandy brdige HD3000 x3 = Llanos IGP.

Interesting they went after the i7 instead of the i5 or i3.

Also, that model number is terrible...

it wouldnt have mattered, the sandy bridges HD3000 IGP... is where theyre fighting the battle.
Their showing IGP vs IGP, and its appernt to anyone that the Llano is the faster of the 2.

 

[Cerb]

Think its clear the Llano grafics card > sandy bridge grafics card.

It's got to be drivers. Even the older, more CPU-heavy IGPs aught to be able to operate more smoothly for video playback w/ post-processing, even when dropping frames. TBH, I've had no problems with older nV and AMD cards and IGP, on elderly machines, playing back h264 that they just couldn't do quite well enough. But, if the frames drop in such a way that there's no stuttering, it's not a big deal, unless you are watching a stats dialog/OSD.

I can't personally speak the SB's IGP, but every generation that preceded it had similar behavior to what the video shows, if not quite so bad, IME (can't blame AMD for picking the most convincing scenario they could, though). There's definitely enough CPU and GPU power to handle the job, and more IO than any non-server needs, pretty much leaving those in management over the graphics driver people.

It's not that Intel's IGP is bad...it's just that they haven't decided to make it good. Meanwhile, AMD's is both good and cheaper.

For a desktop, I'd get a 8400GS, which might even be weaker than any Intel HD IGP, and call it a day (8400GS battle cry: "I'm not a FX 5200!"). For mobile, that generally doesn't work, and all that platform mumbo jumbo starts to matter.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Nice, AMD.

Hope they can back up the talk.

 

[OCGuy]

AMD has had a multi-tasking advantage for quite some time now, still can't figure out why Intel has not addressed the issue.

Que?