- Aug 26, 2014
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This has probably been up for discussion before, but if not, what do you think? With Zen (hopefully) returning AMD to respectable levels of perf/W for CPUs, should they make a high-end gaming oriented APU? What would its specs need to be? What TDP would you deem acceptable?
I'm leaning towards yes, simply because the possibilities this would give in terms of small form factor gaming. Memory bandwith is definitely a bummer, though, and HBM is still too expensive to be realistic.
What I would want:
I'm leaning towards yes, simply because the possibilities this would give in terms of small form factor gaming. Memory bandwith is definitely a bummer, though, and HBM is still too expensive to be realistic.
What I would want:
- 125W TDP
- 4c8t CPU
- 1024+ SPs (1280 would be nice, ~1536 would be lovely - the more the merrier)
- Some sort of on-chip memory for the GPU (1-2GB, along with shared system memory)
- Unlocked/Overclockable
- ~$250, no more