kaveri cpu only?

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

Seriously? Of 35 cpu tests in Anand's bench, a haswell i3 wins 27 and the 7850k wins 8, and I believe a couple of those were gpu accelerated. Of course, I suppose if one doesnt like those results, they can claim the tests are biased and ignore them if it fits his agenda.

I will not argue that in any benchmark that uses the igp, Kaveri will win, but it is beyond ludicrous to say that it "smacks around" an i3 in cpu tasks. Not to mention that at its current price, Kaveri actually competes more closely to a low end i5, which will humiliate it even further in cpu benchmarks.

Yeah and how many of those benchmarks on Anand were compiled for Intel Architecture and are being run under Windows (which is well documented at poorly scheduling AMD architecture). Crickets? I rest my case.

I haven't torture tested a Kaveri yet, only spent a couple hours with one building for a friend's desktop but was impressed with what I saw (blown away at the 3D performance especially). However, I can tell you that my Richland A10 does handily smack around my i3 2130 on the World Community Grid.

I run both CPU's under Ubuntu and the AMD quad core does thump the hyperthreaded dual core by about 4,000 points a day. Of course my i3 uses less power -- so its performance does balance out against the A10. The bottom line is... Single Threaded, the i3 owns and I'll never dispute that. Multithreaded apps (especially under Linux), the A10 and i3 are damn close.... with both taking certain crowns. I've got a pretty even mix of Intel and AMD gear on the grid -- My Haswell i7 is clearly the fastest machine I've got.... But the AMD's are much damn closer than most fanboys would care to admit.