There needs to be an APU header. Just a suggestion.
Anyways why not? 8 cores, X86 capable, and something around a 250X or a 260. That seems like a good enough chip for low level gaming laptops right? Is there a reason they aren't doing this?
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excellent questions, thought i would tend to disagree that it would make a good gaming laptop, it doesnt come near the requirements of even old AAA games.
thought jaguar was for consoles
It is, though they can be pumped out easily at TSMC now and they are cheap.
As I had a 250X and streamed with it fine, I don't think that it should be shot down as fast. Maybe not adverted as a gaming laptop, but a system that actually has a GPU that is worth something. Nowadays you either get something that is from Nvidia and as overpriced as a gaming bucket (razer), or a shitty intel abomination or something equal to a HD 6XXX chip. They can do Jag cheaper, make some small changes and maybe get it good enough to have a 370 and bam good chip. Instead of having 12 APU's with different SKU's and being all over, you have one platform, 8 cores, cheap, good GPU ranging from decent enough to medium settings on modern games (I can play Skyrim at ultra with a 370 and a phenom). It seems like that would be a smarter thing to do and be known for better graphics on APU systems compared to intel and be a good competitor to mid range gaming laptops.
well since they already have a apu for the laptop segment dunno if it's worth the cost of putting jaguar into laptops too, just diffuses their brand and confuses the customer.
I'm just wondering why they didn't do that in the first place. Seems smarter and their APU's would be bought more for low end systems than i3's.
Edit: With the added benefit of already having a 250X/260 and being able to use hybrid crossfire and do a bit better for cheaper. Or using hybridXfire to pass CPU processes to the APU's GPU and using that as a speedboost? I'll have to think about this for a bit BRB
prolly console exclusive lol
Cause it wouldn't make sense.
There's no logical reason to put one on a laptop.
because there are tablets with processors several times faster than the Jaguar CPUs. It's pretty darn old. The APU used in the consoles is the exact same architecture as an Athlon 5350, same cache, same clockspeed, same everything except for core count. low TDP, for sure, but I wouldn't call it adequate. Not when it's matched or beaten in IPC per core by a 2W Cherry Trail SoC.
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Jaguar is just the x86 cores on the console APU. Only just a part of the computing capabilities of the APU. The console APUs also include the radeon cores in order to handle graphics. And the jaguar architecture is used in notebook and tablets. Just that the complete SoC has different names. The Kabini notebooks for example are made with Jaguar cores. Its just older technology at this point since its several years since the architecture has been designed.
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Thanks for the clarification.
That cpu is way to slow to play games effectively on pc, they aren't optimized nearly enough to take advantage of all of those cores effectively where as the consoles are coded specifically for it. I'm not saying you couldn't play games Im saying you'd be limiting your self out of alot of stuff.