AMD A10-7800 & A6-7400K APUs Run Great On Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD A10-7800 & A6-7400K APUs Run Great On Linux

At the end of July AMD launched new Kaveri APU models: the A10-7800, A8-7600, and A6-7400K. AMD graciously sent over review samples on their A10-7800 and A6-7400K Kaveri APUs, which we've been benchmarking and have some of the initial Linux performance results to share today.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=20741

[mitcoes]

Benchmark is to compare vs the competence. Isn't it?

Intel vs AMD please, as easy as that and priice / performance too

And if it is intel vs AMD vs ARM vs (future) IBM PPC even better

So, said that, as it is great on Linux ...

How many pre installed GNU/Linux or Chrome OS machines (over 100 with Intel SoCs) will we see with this APUs?

[dungeon]

Benchmark is to compare vs the competence. Isn't it?

Which competence? Intel does not have blob driver, this test is with fglrx driver used .

[Kemosabe]

With catalyst 14.6 which is definetly fine and a usable driver i do not reget buying an A10-7850K anymore.
Hopefully Metro Redux will run as smooth as the orginial!

[schmidtbag]

Intel vs AMD please, as easy as that and priice / performance too

And if it is intel vs AMD vs ARM vs (future) IBM PPC even better

So, said that, as it is great on Linux ...

How many pre installed GNU/Linux or Chrome OS machines (over 100 with Intel SoCs) will we see with this APUs?

It doesn't seem like Michael gets a whole lot of server hardware handouts. He would likely have to go out of his way to buy a case and motherboard if he were to get a free PPC CPU, and I don't think IBM cares enough.

ARM typically isn't worth comparing, unless he does a cortex A15.

[Kivada]

So the 7850K wasn't using the AMD suggested DDR3 2400...

[Kivada]

Intel vs AMD please, as easy as that and priice / performance too

And if it is intel vs AMD vs ARM vs (future) IBM PPC even better

So, said that, as it is great on Linux ...

How many pre installed GNU/Linux or Chrome OS machines (over 100 with Intel SoCs) will we see with this APUs?

The only ARM chip that would even be semi comparable in terms of raw performance would be the $3000 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 based AMD Opteron A1100 server development board http://www.eweek.com/servers/amd-lau...loper-kit.html Which is a really nice looking piece of ARM hardware, better then anything else you'll find on the market, but it's not a mass production piece of equipment and at it's price, well outside of the price range of the X86 APU market.

Intel chips with a comparable GPU to AMD's APUs are generally much more expensive and lack the ability to make use of HSA for better OpenCL acceleration like AMD and ARM SoCs can.

[Kivada]

It doesn't seem like Michael gets a whole lot of server hardware handouts. He would likely have to go out of his way to buy a case and motherboard if he were to get a free PPC CPU, and I don't think IBM cares enough.

ARM typically isn't worth comparing, unless he does a cortex A15.

IBM PPC hardware is also WAY outside the price range and outside of the general usage scenario of these APUs. You only see POWER kit in big servers and high end workstations and they are big power hungry beasts designed for very high throughput over maximum processing capability. I.E. the single core performance isn't that great, but it doesn't have to be as it capable of splitting the work up better with fewer bottlenecks then other kit.

[rikkinho]

no intel vs m

lol wh is this? no intel? ofc not if michael puts some intel cpu benchmark against this amd apu... intel cpu simply crush the apu

[Michael]

lol wh is this? no intel? ofc not if michael puts some intel cpu benchmark against this amd apu... intel cpu simply crush the apu

As said in the article, those results are still coming...