"Mysterious" AMD launch (Mobile Kaveri APUs under FX)

[Homeles]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umR_iyQ0RSE

all that time for that ??? 🙄

We got trolled, hard. Good one, AMD.

 

[AtenRa]

We got trolled, hard. Good one, AMD.

I liked the sheep at the end though 😛

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Wow, they couldn't even get the editing right. :|

 

[Racan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umR_iyQ0RSE

all that time for that ??? 🙄

 

[hungtran]

It's what you get when your online marketing dept runs on no budget.

 

[Enigmoid]

Is this a spoof or something?
Because that is bad, really bad.

 

[Vesku]

Couldn't they think of a way to actually incorporate their product in a functional manner?

 

[Techhog]

And the vid's been taken down. Hilarious.

 

[AtenRa]

Seriously now, i liked the idea with the Balloon and the high altitude footage but the overall implementation was meh. They could do much better than that.

 

[hungtran]

Should've just sponsored Baumgartner.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Seriously now, i liked the idea with the Balloon and the high altitude footage but the overall implementation was meh. They could do much better than that.

Yeah, I feel kinda bad for the marketing team. That is what they are paid to do. Some guy probably had an amazing idea dumbed down to this. Even the shots were ok, but the editing was kinda rushed.

 

[TreVader]

Its not quite there. Its quite significantly slower than the 750m and and that chip is using DDR3-1800 mhz. The iris pro rmbp is slower than the 750m ddr5 on the retina (I'm assuming that you mean in your macbook). The 750m in that charts is quite BW bound. Iris also performs a lot better at lower resolutions and settings.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7238/acer-v7482pg9884-review-everything-you-need/4

Comparison to 15W intel chips is problematic because they are so thermally bound. Even with mods (4k textures and such) the HD 4000 in my laptop gets around 30-32 fps in skyrim (riverwood). (That's the only game on my notebook at the moment).

The other thing to be extremely aware of is that the AMD kaveri reference design is using much faster RAM (at least 1866 mhz and probably 2133 mhz). That is responsible for a good chunk of the performance increase due to RAM speed that OEM notebooks easily may not use.

However, if used with high speed RAM this will easily eliminate a good chunk of the low end igps. Strong performance.



I see your point but Tahiti is incredibly inefficient compared to Pitcairn. Pitcairn vs. Cape Verde is different.

Didn't catch that it was a DDR3 version of the 750M.


Couldn't they use better cooling to really allow it to preform up to spec? I know my retina macbook pro usually pegs at 3.8Ghz for a good 15 min before it starts to throttle.