The Carrizo based AMD Pro A12 APU is going to be familiar to anyone who read our coverage of the non-Pro Carrizo models. The A12 will have a boost clock of 3.4GHz, eight 800MHz Radeon R7 cores, 2MB of L2 cache, and hardware based HEVC decoding, exactly like the FX-8800P. Indeed there is nothing obvious that differentiates the two processors apart from AMD's tag line that the Pro models are designed for corporate desktops and laptops. The Inquirer lists three laptops which should already be available which use the new mobile processor, the HP EliteBook 725, 745 and 755. No news yet on Godavari Pro powered desktops.
"AMD HAS ANNOUNCED its "most powerful" line of Pro A-Series mobile and desktop processors, formerly codenamed Carrizo Pro and Godavari Pro."
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Can we hope for a Carrizo
Can we hope for a Carrizo review?
A lot of the laptops with the
A lot of the laptops with the Carrizo FX8800p have the APU slapped in a Thin and light/Ultrabook form factor with the FX8800P hamstrung at 15 watts, instead having the FX8800P able to run at is top design wattage of 35 watts. The 15 watt limited Carrizo FX8800P APU parts have about 30% less overall processing power compared to the FX8800P that can take advantage regular form factor laptop’s better cooling that can RUN that FX8800p at its top full design wattage(35 watts)!
AMD and the OEM’s are not providing any Top wattage Carrizo FX8800P laptops, and the blogs are full of people wanting the FX8800p at 35 Watts! Hell when AMD was promoting the Carrizo the Benchmarks where all done on the 35 watt Carrizo FX8800P! where are the regular form factor laptops with cooling designs able to run the Carrizo FX8800p at 35 watts!!!
Who wants a 35 watt capable part shoved into a laptop with only a 15 watt cooling solution, and only ever able to run the part with a 30% loss of performance at 15 Watts!!!
So these New “Pro” SKUs will they be wasted and thermally throttled in a thin and light form factor crappy laptop SKUs also!!!!!!!WTF AMD/OEMs!!!!
nobody wants AMD APU’s and
nobody wants AMD APU’s and there aren’t any blogs begging for their crap.
Who cares about the F-ing CPU
Who cares about the F-ing CPU it’s the GPU part that people want, and folks that want the Carrizo FX8800P don’t want the part if it is stuffed into a 15 watt thermally limited Ultrabook/Thin and light form factor laptop. CPUs suck at graphics, CPUs suck with their low numbers of FP/other execution units. Who cares about Skylake or Zen, I want those AMD ACE units and their asynchronous compute hardware working on Blender 3d cycles rendering on the F-ing GPU. I have a laptop with a Intel core i7 and its sucks at ray tracing rendering workloads, so who cares about the crappy CPU, Intel’s or Carrizo’s excavator cores, I’m after the GPU and its ACE units. Have you ever tried to game on a CPU without the help of a GPU, it’s not going to go well for poor little CPU and its pitiful amount of FP/other execution units.
The Carrizo APU has pretty good graphics for the price, get one in a laptop that can run the FX8800p APU at 35 watts and for the price it beats any of Intel’s graphics. Pair the FX8800p with a Discrete AMD latest GCN mobile GPU, and between the Carrizo’s integrated ACE units and a Discrete mobile AMD GPU’s ACE units you have a great Blender cycles rendering laptop, at a low cost, and whatever the Carrizo’s CPU can do does not matter, the CPU is just the janitor there to run the OS, and stay the hell out of the way of the GPU’s ACE units while they do their rendering job. CPUs are such MOOKS when it comes to graphics, who cares about the CPU, when the GPU has hundreds and thousands of FP/other execution units.
That’s definitely not true.
That’s definitely not true. More like people arnt aware of this fantastic APU. Its iGPU is almost twice as powerful as Broadwell and that’s saying something. AMD’s at fault here but given the recent launch of one of their flag ship GPU’s namely fury X I’m not surprised.
I have repeatedly asked the Nvidia fanboys here at pcper and on their YouTube website to include AMD’s Carrizo APU as they have already included Intel laptop processors in the Broadwell review, but to no avail.
I’m still waiting for pcper to include a Carrizo in any of their reviews, most likely it will be against Intel’s Skylake edition removing a lot of the gloss off this great APU. The bias against AMD is not surprising from these dickheads.
Ever wonder why there are no
Ever wonder why there are no in-depth reviews of Intels HD6100 Iris Pro vs the 35W FX-8800P with dual channel DDR3-2133 ? It’s because Intel would get their ass completely spanked at perf/$, that’s why.
I’m shopping for a
I’m shopping for a home-theater PC that is at least semi-portable. I care about the native h.265 decoding, and I care about continuous, quiet stutter-free operation, and I want to be able to take it places once in a while (but I won’t need to carry it everywhere every day).
The FX-8800P APU looks like the most economical h.265 decode solution; I just wish I could find one that can breathe. I want it in a gamer-sized case with big slow fans moving air silently through huge vents. Beyond that, having enough graphics power to play Minecraft would be a bonus (and anything more would be overkill).
Is anyone designing such a laptop for the HTPC market?