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I have been following the releases of the new AMD fusion Tech quite vehemently. Is anybody else here liking the fact that they seem to have put a DX11 GPU on the CPU die?

I really wish the E-350 was released earlier as I had one hell of a time getting my i3 htpc setup running at reasonable temperatures not to mention I would have saved a bundle. I love the idea of an all in one that can play HD content with very little power and passive cooling(ASUS board). In the HTPC world silence is golden

Been following the LLano benchmarks as well, personally I think it is a good first try. The A-3850 can overclock like crazy and even gets pretty good frame rates in games. Frankly I will consider an AMD when Trinity come out, I want the new Bulldozer cores and it would be nice if they could chuck in 600 stream processors instead of 400 so that I can game without an add on graphics card. I would happily pay a bit more for an AMD with the same processing power as an Intel if I could get smooth (AVG 30FPS / Min 20+- FPS) gaming performance.

Anyhow anybody else on here been looking into AMD recently?

Thought I would chuck in some useful (and short) youtube links for you guys to catch up on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr46Pcw-LSw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lth_M25cXjE
 
Looks promising will give them that. Nice little extra punch for a lower end laptop as well. Im keen rather!
 
killadoob said:
What is the benefit of dx 11 though? Not as if you will be rocking the latest dx 11 games on it :D
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I think he meant Dx11capable GPU on die. Am I correct Shayd? It should make the flow of information significantly faster as it bypasses the bus for some of the operations... It's the fact that the GPU is on die that is making the difference
 
warchylde said:
I think he meant Dx11capable GPU on die. Am I correct Shayd? It should make the flow of information significantly faster as it bypasses the bus for some of the operations... It's the fact that the GPU is on die that is making the difference
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Ahhhh ok i was just wondering what other uses dx 11 would have other than gaming :D
 
warchylde said:
I think he meant Dx11capable GPU on die. Am I correct Shayd? It should make the flow of information significantly faster as it bypasses the bus for some of the operations... It's the fact that the GPU is on die that is making the difference
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Yup, remember DX acceleration is used for more than just games these days. Flash and lots of Graphics apps use it. Plus is you are that way inclined Bitcoin and Code breaking apps use GPU cores.
 
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will definitely be looking for reviews on this - remember how their northbridge on die gave them the edge back when?
 
Shayd said:
Yup, remember DX acceleration is used for more than just games these days.
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Yip. E.g. DXVA which allows video decoding to be hardware accelerated. This doesnt have anything to do with 11 in particular but better DX generally means better gfx capabilities - be it gaming or video.

EDIT: DXVA 2 is supported in new XBMC for Windows.
 
Jamming games on my HTPC will make me a very happy camper. :)

How did I miss video acceleration? 1080p on an Atom equivalent makes loads of sense.
 
On hexus they are comparing a Core i5 to an E-350... are they on drugs those are nowhere near the same category. E350 is R1174 with motherboard Core i5-760 is R1902 excl motherboard . These guys are idiots.
 
Shayd said:
On hexus they are comparing a Core i5 to an E-350... are they on drugs those are nowhere near the same category. E350 is R1174 with motherboard Core i5-760 is R1902 excl motherboard . These guys are idiots.
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I think the point is show the performance difference so people don't think this cpu is good for gaming cpu intense programs. The e350 motherboard doesn't come with crossfire mobo does it?
 
killadoob said:
I think the point is show the performance difference so people don't think this cpu is good for gaming cpu intense programs. The e350 motherboard doesn't come with crossfire mobo does it?
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Everything I have read says that it is a terrible idea putting an addon GPU to this board as the CPU is a bottleneck.
 
+1 to what Shayd said.

The Fusion chipset was designed to be a low power system and not for it to be used as a workhorse or gaming rig. There is really no point in adding a high end graphics card to it, since its CPU won't be able to keep up at all.

The chipset is ideal for an HTPC, seeing that it has an integrated GPU with hardware acceleration for video decoding. I really don't see any use for a system like this other than a home server.
 
Pada dont forget I am referring to the E-350, the LLano(or A series) can jam games just fine. Check out the youtube vids I posted and watch Crysis 2 run on an IGP at 40 FPS.
 
Same here. They have been on the losing end for years and then this happens.

While I won't be buying llano as I have just upgraded my rig, I will most likely be buying trinity. And have said trinity will be 50% FASTER THAN LLANO. That's pretty amazing seeing that llano is right on the cusp of fast enough frame rates

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Yah and well BD is looking amazing on paper, cant wait to see some real tests tho.
But these APUs for laptops and small end home pcs and what not I really cannot wait to play with> The HTPC you can take to a lan, lovely! :D
 
Thanks Shayd, I'll have a look at those YT videos later on tonight if I don't forget ;)
 
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