How AMD's Carrizo A10-8700P Compares To Intel's Core i3/i5

[mmstick]

Carrizo would be a good platform, actually. A pity there are no good laptops on the market. Maybe the situation will improve with the refresh (bristol ridge), bringing also a new platform w/ ddr4. The increase of memory bandwidth should definitely help the gpu part.

There actually are good laptops with it on the market on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-15...dp/B015QICS8W/

[MoonMoon]

Just that I understand it: If the results of these benchmarks are not influenced by throttling and Intel's GPUs are really competitive to AMD's GPUs in this segment, is there any reason to buy AMD anymore?

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Just that I understand it: If the results of these benchmarks are not influenced by throttling and Intel's GPUs are really competitive to AMD's GPUs in this segment, is there any reason to buy AMD anymore?

Yes, for example HSA. Remember how that turn out last time when AMD did this fifteen years ago? We're all using amd64 by now

[wizard69]

Just that I understand it: If the results of these benchmarks are not influenced by throttling and Intel's GPUs are really competitive to AMD's GPUs in this segment, is there any reason to buy AMD anymore?

I'd be more concerned about the quality of the drivers for the GPU! Thermal throttling is of course a real potential issue but is also why we really need to see spreads done on desktop systems. Let's face it laptops are not the place to go for un throttled performance numbers.

[cbxbiker61]

People need to keep in mind that the amdgpu driver is young, and undoubtedly has room for performance improvements. AMD will be working mostly on amdgpu in the future (as apposed to the older driver stack) ....so if you're looking forward the future is good for Carrizo and the chips to follow.

[chimpy]

Yup, thats roughly the results I got, but I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and the Catalyst drivers.

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1512114-SO-CARRIZOCA07

[mmstick]

Yup, thats roughly the results I got, but I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and the Catalyst drivers.

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1512114-SO-CARRIZOCA07

Did you do benchmarking with your CPU governor set to performance? Results seem quite a bit slower than those shown here.

[juno]

There actually are good laptops with it on the market on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-15...dp/B015QICS8W/

But you do realise, that this one is a refurbished laptop? Also, 12 GiB RAM -> no dual channel, with an APU?
But you are right, some of the HP laptops (EliteBooks) are actually alright. Only quite expensive and hard to get (as every carrizo device) in Europe...
As already said, I hope the device manufacturers will bring some interesting devices at the beginning of next year, with BR and DDR4

[Slartifartblast]

28nm vs 14nm, enough said. Up your game AMD.

[extraymond]

There actually are good laptops with it on the market on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-15...dp/B015QICS8W/

No way it's gonna be 1.3 pounds, 1080p and 12gb ram....
This can't be true....