http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/12/amd-kaveri-desktop-chip-date/
AMD has announced that 'Kaveri' APU's will 'initially be available' January 14 2014!
I was JUST going to buy a new AM3+ mobo but I think I'll be holding off to see the performance and Crossfire-ability of this new APU platform.
What do you guys think about Kaveri?
More Graphics is good
Wish them luck with their APUs as they are getting spanked with there enthusiast level offerings.
Kaveri will be a large step forward for their apus, however it is not going to be a replacement for the 8-core FX cpus at release in January. Unless there some super-secret 6-core kaveri apu that nobody knows about.
I don't see much of reason to wait unless you're thinking of getting a quad-core kaveri.
I hear ya... I would just like to wait however in-case the new FM2+ mobos herald the coming of PCIe 3.0 to AMD platforms (not like they NEED it as 2.0 still isn't saturated).
I dunno, you're probably right though... I'll probably still grab the Asus Crosshair-V Formula Z on Friday.
Thay will probably fuck it up by shiping out hiardryers to cool them knowing AMD thay realy need to sort out the crapy coolers thay send out with everything.
Unlike Intel who just fucks up the IHS on continuous generations of chips and doesn't even ship coolers with their 'high end' chips eh?
Any news on the GPU architecture?
Unless something has been announced that I'm not aware of, then Mantle is only compatible with chips on the GCN architecture.
Either way, APUs are really looking great now. Especially for low end builds.
The GPU is supposed to be equivalent of HD7750. But keep in mind that Kaveri doesn't have GDDR5. It only has DDR3, and I think that's an important factor to consider. So far I don't think I'd want Kaveri for a gaming PC, even though AMD bragged about it being an i5 killer. It's great for a laptop IMO. But I'm cautiously optimistic, so I'm willing to wait for some benchmarks and reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O07YOk4nLyo
I hope it can be cross-fired with their R9 260.
If you watch the 45 minute video explaining the details of how Mantle will be able to make use of crossfire, it won't be like like it is now, where the "work" is split 50/50 between the two GPU's, thus having the lesser capable GPU hold back the more capable GPU (in the case of crossfire with a discreet GPU and iGPU/APU).
With Mantle they are suggesting the possibility of off-loading specific tasks to be handled by the iGPU leaving less work and a different set of specific tasks for the discreet GPU to handle, allowing for much higher performance.
We'll have to wait and see how much faster the Kaveri APU's are in terms of CPU performance. If they are approaching i5 performance levels even without the implementation of Mantle, then things are going to get really interesting next year...
If Kaveri can almost match i5 levels of performance on the CPU alone, I'll sell my i7 and pick one up. I'm tired of Intel's partitioning of features based on how much cash you throw at them.
Also, as a programmer, I definitely want to play with HSA.
I'm tired of Intel's partitioning of features based on how much cash you throw at them.
I agree. Also, I think the single core performance improvement will help with last gen games.